Greenland sees record-breaking heat
High of 25.9 C in Maniitsoq stands as highest temperature recorded in Greenland since 1958
Maniitsoq on the western coast of Greenland basked in record-breaking high temperatures this past week. (PHOTO COURTESY OF GREENLAND TOURISM/GREENLAND.COM)
If you wanted hot weather this week, you should have been in Greenland.
On July 30 at 4 p.m. the Danish Meterological Institute weather station in Maniitsoq, about 750 kilometres from Iqaluit on the western coast of Greenland, recorded a temperature of 25.9 C.
That’s the highest temperature measured on a weather station in Greenland since weather records began in 1958.
The previous record temperature of 25.5 C was from Kangerlussuaq on July 27, 1990.
According to Greenland’s leading newspaper, Sermitsiaq, a low pressure system over Baffin Island combined with the high pressure system over Greenland to produce predominantly a warm, dry southeasterly wind, known as a föhn wind.
This is type of dry, warm, downward moving wind that occurs in the leeward side of a mountain range.
Maniitsoq was not the only warm spot on the island on July 30: in Sisimiut the temperature reached 21 C and in Kangerlussuaq 20.4 C, the newspaper noted.
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