“AN unprecedentedly warm Winter in the entire arctic Is believed to be the cause of the vast number of icebergs adrift in the North Atlantic Ocean during the present season and for the low latitudes which many. of them have reached Navigators and scientists of the Hydrographic Office and Revenue Cutter Service in Washington have theories tending to prove that an unusually heavy snowfall in. Greenland, where all the icebergs are formed, in the Winter of 1910-11, was followed by an unusually hot Summer, and by a very mild Winter In 1911-12, these conditions resulting in the creation of an enormously large crop of !icebergs from the West Greenland glaciers, and of floe, or field ice. Unusual northerly and north- westerly winds have blown these bergs far to the southward.
Last year, according to the officials of the Hydrographic Office, the thermometer registered 94 degrees in midsummer at Irigtut, on the west coast of Greenland. The Coast and Geodetic Survey has not made any surveys In the arctic for some years, and has no official data, but information has just been received by an official of the Survey from Donald R. McMillan, who was with Peary on his arctic dash, and who is now fin northern Labrador, preparatory to an exploration trip into the Far North, throwing much light on the question of the ice pack in the Atlantic”
TimesMachine: May 5, 1912 – NYTimes.com
h/t Don Penim
May 1911 brought unprecedented heat to the US, including temperatures over 100F in New England.
22 May 1911, Page 1 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com
This was followed by the hottest July 4th on record in the US, during a two week heatwave which killed thousands of people in New England. July 3rd, 1911 was the hottest day on record in New Hampshire. July 4th, 1911 was the hottest day on record in Massachusetts and Vermont, and July 10, 1911 was the hottest day on record in Maine.
04 Jul 1911, Page 1 – The Scranton Republican
The 1911 Heat Wave Was So Deadly It Drove People Insane – New England Historical Society
05 Jul 1911, 1 – The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com
En 1911, Paris suffoquait déjà sous la canicule – Le Parisien
NASA says 1911 was one of the coldest years ever.
