For Keith Morrison, the consequences of this fall’s extraordinarily warm weather across the North all came down to an urgent call for help. That stretch of ice is normally safe by this time of year, but this autumn has not been normal. “What differentiated this year was we saw a widespread warmer temperature anomaly across the board in the Arctic,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Eric Dykes. And not only did Resolute, Nunavut, record 68 days of above-normal warmth, nearly half of those days were outside the normal temperature variation. “The route they were taking was one they’ve been taking all their lives without much of an issue,” Morrison said.

Source: thestar November 24, 2019 15:00 UTC