Greenland’s western coast last month recorded its warmest January on record
Nuuk saw the capital of GreenlandThe warmest January in its history, breaking a 109-year-old record, after Temperatures rose significantly along the western coast of the Antarctic island, the Danish Meteorological Institute reported Monday.
While Europe and North America experienced a cold snap in January, Nuuk recorded an average monthly temperature of 0.1 degrees Celsius, 7.8 degrees Celsius higher than the average temperature for the same month over the past three decades.
Record
This is 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than The previous record was set in Nuuk in 1917. On the warmest day in Nuuk during January, the temperature was 11.3 degrees Celsius.
The Danish Meteorological Institute indicated that temperatures in January broke monthly records along more than 2,000 kilometers from the southern tip of Greenland to the west coast.
In Ilulissat, Disko Bay, the average temperature in January was minus 1.6 degrees Celsius, higher It is 1.3 degrees higher than the previous record recorded in 1929, and 11 degrees higher than the average temperature in January, according to the Danish Meteorological Institute.
Warm air waves
Warm air waves sometimes blow over Greenland, bringing moderate temperatures for a day or two, but the continuation of the warm wave for a long period over this vast area is considered "A clear indication that changes are occurring"According to climate researcher at the Danish Meteorological Institute, Martin Olesen.
Olesen added "We know and see clearly that climate warming continues, leading, as expected, to more record-breaking warm temperatures and a gradual decline in cold temperatures."The Arctic region is at the forefront of the regions affected by climate change, and temperatures there have risen at a rate more than four times the average temperature increase in the rest of the world since 1979, according to a study published in 2022 in the journal "Nature" Scientific.
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