“Shocking before and after photos reveal just how much the Greenland Ice Sheet melted during the ‘hottest month ever recorded on Earth’.”
Greenland had a short melt season this year and the surface gained 400 billion tons of new ice, which is above the 1958-2002 average for the fifth year out of the last seven.
Surface Conditions: Polar Portal
The snow season started early this year, with the Petermann Glacier already buried in snow and 13km longer than eleven years ago.