Climate change brings lush lawns to Kuujjuaq (northern Canada)

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Source: Nunatsiaq News

KUUJJUAQ — If you want to see how the Arctic is heating up, come to Kuujjuaq where the temperature on Sept. 10 reached 22.1 C.

At the end of the afternoon, clouds moved in, and warm rain fell on the newly-mown grass around Kuujjuaq — sights and sounds which are more usually associated with warmer places than a community located on the 58th parallel.

Kuujjuaq’s two-day spell of warm weather on Sept. 9 and 10 followed a summer that many residents considered to be cool.

But average temperatures this past summer in Kuujjuaq actually registered about 1 C higher than the average normal temperatures recorded since 1947, providing the right environment for grass to grow abundantly and quickly around the community.

... New wildlife, from robins to the recent sighting of a lynx, an animal usually found far to the south, also continue to be spotted in the vicinity of Kuujjuaq.

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