{"id":2640,"date":"2016-04-14T04:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/heat-wave-in-greenland-triggers-record-early-start-to-ice-melt-season\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T04:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:26:14","slug":"heat-wave-in-greenland-triggers-record-early-start-to-ice-melt-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/heat-wave-in-greenland-triggers-record-early-start-to-ice-melt-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave in Greenland triggers record early start to ice melt season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It may be a cold start to spring in the Midwest and eastern U.S., but in Greenland, more than 2,000 miles to the north, it’s been positively balmy lately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday, when Boston had a high temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, Kangerlussaq, Greenland, which serves as an important logistical hub for scientific research throughout the island, saw a record high temperature of 17.8 degrees Celsius, or 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Study: Melting Greenland ice sheet is rapidly slowing the Gulf Stream<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This was the warmest April temperature on record at that location, and it nearly set an all-time warm temperature record for Greenland as a whole, which is the world’s largest island. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It may be a cold start to spring in the Midwest and eastern U.S., but in Greenland, more than 2,000 miles to the north, it’s been positively balmy lately.\u00a0 On Monday, when Boston had a high temperature of 60 degrees … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1395,1193,1394,1844,1843],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-climate-change","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-warming","tag-greenland-ice-sheet","tag-heat-wave"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}