Warmer in Alert NU.
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Generally speaking about 28 frost free days (at a stretch) annually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert,_Nunavut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert,_Nunavut
Here, read this Clem
http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...oves-into-thawing-arctic-u-s-strategy-shifts/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/new-cold-war-brews-as-arctic-ice-melts/
http://thehill.com/opinion/internat...imate-change-in-the-arctic-ignoring-threat-to
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rctic-as-melting-ice-reopens-northern-borders
http://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/69761...-is-affecting-alaskas-military-radar-stations
http://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729874353/climate-change-adds-new-urgency-to-u-s-navys-arctic-strategy
http://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-threatens-national-security-says-pentagon
...and dozens more ...
Alert is literally Ground Zero in all of this. It is no joke and it sure as shyte isn't "fake news" either.
Must you be an insulting prick all your life? Trying to outdo the Asshole from Md.?
Gosh, I sure we don't see an ice-free North pole by 2013
He must
More like No T
New Zealand hit by 'weather bomb' bringing summer snow and flooding
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/new-zealand-weather-bomb-summer-snow-flooding
Sockpooppetts are not the number one go to for ACCURATE climactic information. Even though, by yacking up the party line, they think they are.
HEY! Look!!! Global warming maid your tooth grow back!!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/new-zealand-weather-bomb-summer-snow-flooding
Sockpooppetts are not the number one go to for ACCURATE climactic information. Even though, by yacking up the party line, they think they are.
HEY! Look!!! Global warming maid your tooth grow back!!!!
Strong Arctic sea-ice growth this year
February is not over, and Arctic sea-ice extent is already over half a million square kilometers higher than last year at this day.
The growing season has not ended, and 2019 Arctic sea-ice extent is already higher than the previous four years and six out of the last 14 years.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02/24/strong-arctic-sea-ice-growth-this-year/
February is not over, and Arctic sea-ice extent is already over half a million square kilometers higher than last year at this day.
The growing season has not ended, and 2019 Arctic sea-ice extent is already higher than the previous four years and six out of the last 14 years.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02/24/strong-arctic-sea-ice-growth-this-year/
Assinaboine River to the QuAppelle River to Wascana Creek.
It's all connected. Yar!
Mercury tops out on top of the world: Alert in Nunavut warmer than Victoria
Canadian Press
Published:
July 15, 2019
Updated:
July 15, 2019 5:27 PM EDT
The world’s most northerly community has been in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave. Iqualit, Nunavut saw mercury rise to 23.5 C on Tuesday, July 9, 2019.
Weather watchers are focused on the world’s most northerly community which has been in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave.
“It’s really quite spectacular,” said David Phillips, Environment Canada’s chief climatologist. “This is unprecedented.”
The weather agency confirmed that Canadian Forces Station Alert hit a record of 21 C on Sunday. On Monday, the military listening post on the top of Ellesmere Island had reached 20 C by noon and inched slightly higher later in the day.
Alert was warmer both days than Victoria, B.C., a Canadian go-to for balmy climes.
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The average July high for Alert is 7 C. Phillips said that means the heat wave at the top of the world is the equivalent of Toronto registering a daytime high of 42 C.
“It’s nothing that you would have ever seen.”
A military spokesman said nobody at the high-security station, which monitors electronic signals and communications, was available to say if soldiers had swapped parkas for flip-flops.
Phillips said it’s the latest anomaly in what’s been a long, hot summer across the Arctic.
Iqaluit, Nunavut, saw the mercury rise to 23.5 C on July 9 — the highest ever for that day. Alaska had its second-warmest June on record.
Records have been falling — not by fractions, but by large margins.
“That’s what we’re seeing more often,” Phillips said.
“It’s not just half a degree or a 10th of a millimetre. It’s like hitting a ball out of the ballpark. It is so different than what the previous record was.”
More is to come, he predicted.
“Our models for the rest of the summer are saying, ‘Get used to it.”‘
In Alert’s case, the source of the Arctic beach weather is a large current of air that somehow found its way north from the U.S. southeast, Phillips said.
It could be related to changes in the jet stream, a fast-moving high-altitude river of air that moves west to east. That current has slowed in recent years and has become more unstable, sometimes looping much farther north or south than normal.
Many scientists believe the changes are at least partly the result of melting sea ice.
“It’s almost as if you’re seeing these extremes more often because of the jet stream that has a different look and a different pattern,” Phillips said. “That’s what we saw when we had those 20-degree temperatures in Iqaluit.”
It’s part of a pattern, he said. He’s cautious about attributing specific events to any one cause, but not about naming one of the main drivers.
“With temperatures you’ve never seen before, you can’t dismiss it as not having a climate change component.”
http://torontosun.com/health/mercur...e-world-alert-in-nunavut-warmer-than-victoria
Canadian Press
Published:
July 15, 2019
Updated:
July 15, 2019 5:27 PM EDT
The world’s most northerly community has been in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave. Iqualit, Nunavut saw mercury rise to 23.5 C on Tuesday, July 9, 2019.
Weather watchers are focused on the world’s most northerly community which has been in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave.
“It’s really quite spectacular,” said David Phillips, Environment Canada’s chief climatologist. “This is unprecedented.”
The weather agency confirmed that Canadian Forces Station Alert hit a record of 21 C on Sunday. On Monday, the military listening post on the top of Ellesmere Island had reached 20 C by noon and inched slightly higher later in the day.
Alert was warmer both days than Victoria, B.C., a Canadian go-to for balmy climes.
Canada’s infrastructure, coastal communities most at risk from climate change, gov’t study
Canada’s failure to fight climate change ’disturbing,’ environment watchdog says
The average July high for Alert is 7 C. Phillips said that means the heat wave at the top of the world is the equivalent of Toronto registering a daytime high of 42 C.
“It’s nothing that you would have ever seen.”
A military spokesman said nobody at the high-security station, which monitors electronic signals and communications, was available to say if soldiers had swapped parkas for flip-flops.
Phillips said it’s the latest anomaly in what’s been a long, hot summer across the Arctic.
Iqaluit, Nunavut, saw the mercury rise to 23.5 C on July 9 — the highest ever for that day. Alaska had its second-warmest June on record.
Records have been falling — not by fractions, but by large margins.
“That’s what we’re seeing more often,” Phillips said.
“It’s not just half a degree or a 10th of a millimetre. It’s like hitting a ball out of the ballpark. It is so different than what the previous record was.”
More is to come, he predicted.
“Our models for the rest of the summer are saying, ‘Get used to it.”‘
In Alert’s case, the source of the Arctic beach weather is a large current of air that somehow found its way north from the U.S. southeast, Phillips said.
It could be related to changes in the jet stream, a fast-moving high-altitude river of air that moves west to east. That current has slowed in recent years and has become more unstable, sometimes looping much farther north or south than normal.
Many scientists believe the changes are at least partly the result of melting sea ice.
“It’s almost as if you’re seeing these extremes more often because of the jet stream that has a different look and a different pattern,” Phillips said. “That’s what we saw when we had those 20-degree temperatures in Iqaluit.”
It’s part of a pattern, he said. He’s cautious about attributing specific events to any one cause, but not about naming one of the main drivers.
“With temperatures you’ve never seen before, you can’t dismiss it as not having a climate change component.”
http://torontosun.com/health/mercur...e-world-alert-in-nunavut-warmer-than-victoria
Surrounded by water on three sides and incessant fcuking wind blowing. I lived there for 5 years, worst place in my life!