"In Even The Highest & Coldest Areas", Greenland Temps Above Freezing; Normal Is -10C
Greenland is experiencing “extreme” temperatures as the record-setting heatwave that blasted Europe last week hovers over the region. Up to half the surface of the island’s ice sheet is thought to be currently melting, with runoff equivalent to a 0.5mm rise in global sea levels in July alone.
It comes less than a week after Britain saw its hottest-ever day, with a high of 38.7C recorded at Cambridge botanic garden last Thursday. Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands also experienced record-high temperatures due to a plume of air from north Africa.
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Dr Amber Leeson, of the University of Lancaster, said that temperatures had breached the 0C mark “in even the highest and coldest” areas of Greenland, where the mercury ordinarily hits an average of -10C at this time of year. “The Danish Meteorological Institute thinks that yesterday, about half of Greenland’s ice surface was melting – that’s twice as much as is normal for July,” she told The Independent.
And Dr Twila Moon, of the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Centre, told The Independent that temperatures over large areas of the ice sheet reached 5C or more above average on Wednesday. “These are extreme temperatures for the ice sheet, and communities around the Greenland coast are likely bracing for flooding from ice melt,” she added. “Forecasts for this week suggest that this may be the second-largest melt event – in terms of surface area of melt – since records began in the 1950s.”
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https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greenland-weather-temperature-heatwave-ice-melt-sea-level-a9030361.html
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