{"id":2120,"date":"2024-08-28T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2024-08-25T23:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T21:50:58","slug":"record-setting-heat-waves-are-baking-the-arctic-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/record-setting-heat-waves-are-baking-the-arctic-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-setting heat waves are baking the Arctic region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Temperatures up to 20 or 30 degrees above average for a full day have been common in parts of the Arctic and northern Canada recently. CDAS temperature anomaly reanalysis shown here over the past week. (WeatherBell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Parts of the Arctic are enduring exceptionally high temperatures \u2014 up 30 to 40 degrees above normal \u2014 because of multiple intense heat domes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One intense heat dome has progressed from northern Alaska to Canada\u2019s Hudson Bay over the past week, delivering round after round of historically high temperatures. A smaller but equally persistent heat dome has been toasting parts of Scandinavia\u2019s Arctic on the opposite side of the North Pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exceptional warmth \u2014 intensified by human-caused climate change \u2014 is affecting a region that has warmed three times as much as the global average. And it\u2019s happening as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just announced<\/a> July was the 14th successive month with record-high global temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past week, temperatures soared to nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Norman Wells, Canada, just 90 miles south<\/a> of the Arctic Circle. Locations in Alaska set numerous record highs; the mercury climbed as high as 90 degrees in Eagle, 193 miles east of Fairbanks. Off the coast of Greenland, Longyearbyen, Norway, the northernmost city on Earth with a sizable population witnessed its warmest August day, with a high of nearly 70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As these high-latitude locations have heated up, some of the cool air normally found there has been displaced into the mid-latitudes \u2014 offering temporary relief from scorching summer heat in parts of the central and eastern United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heat in Canada\u2019s north and Alaska<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Underneath the heat dome in northern Canada, drought<\/a> has intensified, and fires<\/a> are ravaging many areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian weather historian Thierry Goose has been compiling a growing number of temperature records. Some of the more notable records are listed below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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