Northern Canada, Alaska and northern Scandinavia have recently experienced record highs.
A drop of water falls off an iceberg melting in the Nuup Kangerlua Fjord near Nuuk in southwestern Greenland, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017.
The exceptional warmth — intensified by human-caused climate change — is affecting a region that has warmed three times as much as the global average. And it’s happening as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just announced July was the 14th successive month with record-high global temperatures.
Canadian weather historian Thierry Goose has been compiling a growing number of temperature records. Some of the more notable records are listed below: in the Northwest Territories: Fort Good Hope at 99 degrees, Norman Wells at 98 degrees, Tulita at 94 degrees and Colville Lake at 87 degrees. in Nunavut : Arviat at 88 degrees, Chesterfield Inlet at 87 degrees and Coral Harbour at 81 degrees.
On Monday, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Service shared imagery of freshwater flowing, and kicking up sediment, into the ocean in the Svalbard Islands.
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