Greenland soars to its highest temperature ever recorded, almost 80 degrees F.
Greenland soars to its highest temperature ever recorded, almost 80 degrees F.
The Danish Meteorological Institute is reporting that on Tuesday, July 30, the mercury rose to 25.9 C (78.6 F) at a station in Greenland, the highest temperature measured in the Arctic country since records began in 1958.
The balmy reading was logged at the observing station Maniitsoq / Sugar Loaf, which is on Greenlands southwest coast, the DMI reports. It exceeded the 25.5 C (77.9 F) reading taken at Kangerlussuaq on July 27, 1990, in the same general area. Mantiitsoq is Greenlands sixth-largest town, with a 2010 population of 2,784.
The DMI says the warmth was not unnatural, but explains it fits into a long-term pattern of climate warming.
There is an indisputable gradual increase in temperature in Greenland, DMI writes. Along the way, any warm event thus have (sic) a higher probability of being slightly warmer than the previous one.