For the first time in the history of observations on the top of Greenland, the precipitation fell out in the form of rain, and not snow, transmits CNN.
According to the TV channel, the reason for the sudden change of the habitual for the island of snowfalls to rain was a record increase in temperature. In the past weekend, as reported by the TV channel, the air on the island warmed up to the marks above zero. Such a phenomenon in Greenland is fixed for the third time in ten years.
7 billion tons of water fell due to warming on ice cover. According to the National Center for Data On Snow and Outflow, the amount of lost ice mass on Sunday seven times exceeded the norm for this time of year.
Experts of the Center stressed that this suggests that Greenland is quickly heated, and called the situation “unprecedented”.