Ronald Engels schreef op 13 september 2021 21:44:
Klimaat Forumvrienden, ter informatie van de DMI:
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LARRY DELIVERS RECORD-SMASHING SUMMER SNOW TO GREENLAND
Hurricane-force gusts topped 100 miles per hour at Kulusuk Airport near Greenland’s southeast coast, while record-smashing accumulations of summer snow battered the world’s largest island.
The snow reached blizzard conditions at Summit Camp, a weather station at the island’s highest point more than 10,000 feet above sea level, with winds and snow so heavy that visibility was reduced to all-but zero.
“Ex-hurricane Larry is still haunting us,” wrote the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).
The storm delivered accumulations measured in the feet across Greenland, totals that pushed the island’s SMB balance into record breaking territory.
A jaw-dropping 10 Gigatons of snow and ice were logged yesterday, September 12 (shown below).
- 10 Gts is enough to bury Central Park, New York City under 11,190 feet of ice and snow!
SMB, Sept 12 [DMI].
Never before in DMI record books (which date back to 1981) has the Greenland ice sheet GROWN by anywhere near this much at this time of year, but also recall that literally ‘off the chart’ spike in late-May:
‘Off the charts’ SMB spike in late-May [DMI].
The ice sheet’s paradigm shifted around 5 years ago, from one of melt, to one of gains (climate is cyclic).
Snow and ice are now again building rapidly on Greenland — as the data reveals.
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M.v.g. Ronald.