Greenland melt extent in 2019, compared to normal. “Arctic ice cover continues to dwindle and temperatures there soar.”But advection — the transport of air, in this case warm, from somewhere else — is just half the battle. (ClimateReanalyzer.org)“Incoming solar radiation reached a value similar to ones we observed in August last year,” wrote Tedesco. When snow/ice on the ground melt, they form small pools of water. Ice melt in Alaska has set rivers gushing more than a month before normal in some places, setting records along the Kuskokwim River in Bethel, and triggering the earliest ice breakup along the Tanana River in Nenana.

Source: Washington Post April 18, 2019 18:30 UTC