The Arctic has been beset by very warm temperatures in some places, along with extreme storms, and unheard of melt events heading into winter.
The September 3 surface melting episode totaled 232,000 square miles — an area nearly the size of Texas. Caused by a late-season heat wave, the event was "unprecedented in the 44 years of continuous satellite monitoring,"This animation of two satellite images illustrates the dramatic extent of record-setting surface melting on the Greenland ice sheet in early September. The melting peaked on September 3, 2022.
That's equivalent to losing an extent of ice as large as the state of South Carolina or the country of Austria annually. But this isn't the whole story. In addition to those polynyas that opened near the North Pole, others areas of the Arctic saw unusual ice losses.
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