Much of the Arctic is in a burst of freak December warming
Monday morning. That's not only a record by six degrees but it's the warmest that region has seen on record from late October to late April, according to Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
It rained over the weekend in Nome, Alaska, which is unusual but not unheard of for December and the town also had record-breaking warmth Sunday. Savoonga Creek was flooding and didn’t have snow cover, nor did the town of Teller northwest of Nome, where snow this time of year is used for drinking water, Thoman said.
On Sunday, the Arctic as a whole averaged 11.5 degrees warmer than the 1979-2000 average temperature and on Monday, computer models showed that average to likely be 10.5 degrees warmer than normal, according to theIn Nuuk, Greenland, on Friday it was shirt-sleeve weather in December, when the temperature peaked at 54 degrees , 26 degrees above the normal high mark. In Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on Friday it hit 48 degrees , which was 34 degrees warmer than normal.
“The entire Arctic is hot except for small portions of the central and eastern Canadian Arctic and a very small portion of Siberia,” Thoman said from a warmer than normal Fairbanks. Part of it is because of a system of storms, which is likely just random weather, but part is it from lower than normal sea ice, which is
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