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2025-07-28 10:42:13 UTC

Enormous melt event ongoing in #Greenland right now
One of the biggest we've seen.
Much of the interior melt is likely refreezing, but large mass losses at lower elevations
Check out the season here: https://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions
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2025-05-19 14:08:57 UTC

The onset of the melting season in Greenland is defined as the first of at least three days in a row with melting over more than 5% of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The median over the period 1981-2025 is on 26 May. This year, the melting onset was 12 days early, on 14 May, which is rank 11 of 45 years.
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