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What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by mkempe »

I read the weather report (in Danish). [1] The local warming in Greenland has already happened in previous years at that particular weather station.

The spike in temperature was caused by a foehn-like wind -- same as a chinook wind in the Colorado or Wyoming Rockies; the temperature in Boulder CO can easily climb 10-20 C over a few hours and rapidly melt the snow, then return to a deep freeze the next night.

[1] http://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/arkiv/nyheder-2018/februar/plusgra...

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by lwansbrough »

rezz wrote: post #5
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #3

Almost as bad as web devs forgetting how to use the HTML tag.

HTML doesn't have an tag.

Actually, it does. Try it. (To be clear, it was implemented because of the frequency in which developers mistakenly use instead of )

Re: What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

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Post by davesque »

mkempe wrote: post #2

I read the weather report (in Danish). [1] The local warming in Greenland has already happened in previous years at that particular weather station. The spike in temperature was caused by a foehn-like wind -- same as a chinook wind in the Colorado or Wyoming Rockies; the temperature in Boulder CO can easily climb 10-20 C over a few hours and rapidly melt the snow, then return to a deep freeze the next night. [1] http…

But...the ice levels are well below record lows during the satellite era according to the article. When are we going to stop kidding ourselves?
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