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Suplimental to Jean-Marie Prival's answer:

The February 2020 event was already discussed here in a question posted the same day this went public: What is the second thermometer in the image from the Esperanza Antarctic temperature record?

twitter.com wmo.int bloomberg.com nytimes.com theguardian.com

The tweet contained an image of a literal analogue thermometer which did show the 18.3°C... but curiously enough, also another thermometer showing merely 10.0°C.

The image tweeted by SMN Argentina

The answer to that question is that this these also form a wet-dry bulb system for measuring humidity.

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