New Record High Temperatures In Arctic Canada

Arctic sizzles in summer heat
WebPosted Aug 6 2003 10:14 CDT

IQALUIT, Nunavut - "The bitter, forbidding Arctic has been downright hot this summer.

Environment Canada has recorded several record-breaking temperatures in Nunavut, including a high of 31.5 C in Baker Lake on July 28 - beating the old record of 29.7 in 1991.

Iqaluit has broken two records. On July 29 the temperature hit 26.1 C, breaking the record of 20.8 in 2001. And last Friday the temperature in Nunavut's capital went up to 20.8 C, setting yet another record.

Serj Besner of the Arctic Weather Centre in Edmonton says Nunavut's warm weather is a product of a hot summer in the West.

'We've had warm temperatures across all of the Prairies in the month of July in particular,' Besner says. 'With the strong southerly winds, a lot of those warm temperatures have been pushed up to the Nunavut region.'"

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From CBC

> it's like we are watching the end of the world.

The world, as a whole, will adapt.

A lot of species, though, may not. Perhaps Homo (not-so-)Sapiens will
be one of the species that shoves off this mortal coil, but I suspect we'd
find some niche to hole up in, although our population might crash.

Atlant