Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Rain fell at the normally snowy summit of Greenland for the first time on record
It rained for several hours at the summit of Greenland's ice sheet on August 14, marking the first time in recorded history the area has experienced rain. You may think it’s not unusual to have rain in Greenland because it’s summer there, too. But the spot is over 3,000 meters above sea level where summer temperatures usually stay below zero degrees Celsius. When it rained, the temperature was above the freezing point for over nine hours, only the fourth time in history, but the third time since 2012. Indeed, Greenland is surely warming. As a result of the record rainfall, the amount of ice mass lost on the following day was seven times higher than the usual days of the month. In fact, in 2019, Greenland lost a substantial amount of ice into the sea, raising the global sea level by 1.5 millimeters permanently. As such warm weather events are occurring more frequently, they are no longer considered weather events but climate change. Soon, Eskimos may need rainboots instead of snow boots.
Read the article and learn what this rare rainfall in Greenland means to the planet.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/19/weather/greenland-summit-rain-climate-change/index.html
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