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Discovery - Greenland's Melt Season Started Nearly Two Months Early
🇬🇱 To say the 2016 Greenland melt season is off to the races is an understatement. Warm, wet conditions rapidly kicked off the melt season this weekend, more than a month-and-a-half ahead of schedule. It has easily set a record for earliest melt season onset, and marks the first time it’s begun in April. […] Record warm temperatures coupled with heavy rain mostly sparked 12 percent of the ice sheet to go into meltdown mode… Almost all the melt is currently centered around southwest Greenland. […] This April kickoff is so bizarrely early, scientists who study the ice sheet checked their analysis to make sure something wasn’t amiss before making the announcement. xWarm, wet conditions rapidly kicked off Greenland's melt season this weekend https://t.co/3T2MMVopkb — Scientific American (@sciam) April 14, 2016 |
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