Post by Andrei Tchentchik on Sept 4, 2019 16:22:24 GMT 2
(.#A.013).- Record of heat near the North Pole, July 17, 2019.
Record of heat near the North Pole.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019.
AFP - Mercury hit 21 degrees Celsius Sunday in Alert, the most northerly inhabited place on the planet, less than 900 km from the North Pole, setting an "absolute record" of heat for the station, Environment Canada said yesterday .
"It's pretty phenomenal as a statistic, it's an example among hundreds and hundreds of others of the records set by global warming," said Armel Castellan, a federal meteorologist.
A permanent military base established at the 82nd parallel, used inter alia to intercept Russian communications, Alert has been home to a weather station since 1950.
NEVER SEEN
It was 21 degrees Celsius Sunday July 14, 2019 and 20 degrees Celsius the next day.
"It's an absolute record, we've never seen that," said Castellan.
And it was already 17 degrees Celsius at midday "and it can still rise," he noted.
The previous record, of 20 degrees Celsius, went back to July 8, 1956, but since 2012 several days between 19 and 20 degrees Celsius have been recorded.
The average daily for a month of July is 3.4 degrees Celsius at Alert, and the average maximum temperature is 6.1 degrees Celsius.
F I N.
Record of heat near the North Pole.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019.
AFP - Mercury hit 21 degrees Celsius Sunday in Alert, the most northerly inhabited place on the planet, less than 900 km from the North Pole, setting an "absolute record" of heat for the station, Environment Canada said yesterday .
"It's pretty phenomenal as a statistic, it's an example among hundreds and hundreds of others of the records set by global warming," said Armel Castellan, a federal meteorologist.
A permanent military base established at the 82nd parallel, used inter alia to intercept Russian communications, Alert has been home to a weather station since 1950.
NEVER SEEN
It was 21 degrees Celsius Sunday July 14, 2019 and 20 degrees Celsius the next day.
"It's an absolute record, we've never seen that," said Castellan.
And it was already 17 degrees Celsius at midday "and it can still rise," he noted.
The previous record, of 20 degrees Celsius, went back to July 8, 1956, but since 2012 several days between 19 and 20 degrees Celsius have been recorded.
The average daily for a month of July is 3.4 degrees Celsius at Alert, and the average maximum temperature is 6.1 degrees Celsius.
F I N.
