Big Summer Gains For Greenland Ice Sheet; Brazil Coffee Frost Alerts Extended; Heatwave Exaggerations In Europe; + Another La Niña Watch Issued, Defying The Models
Climate models continue to predict the opposite of what we're seeing.
Big Summer Gains For Greenland Ice Sheet
On August 14, Greenland’s SMB spiked to near-record-breaking levels.
Widespread accumulation dominated the ice sheet on Thursday, particularly the south, with daily gains hitting 2 gigatons — an impressive spike for the date, potentially the largest mid-August daily gain ever recorded.
The cumulative SMB remains far above the 1981-2010 mean (bottom section below):
Greenland’s SMB posting substantial gains in mid-August, undercutting the breathless “point of no return,” “cracking apocalypse,” and “imminent collapse” headlines splashed by the Guardian, BBC, CNN, and the rest.
Brazil Coffee Frost Alerts Extended
Frost warnings across Brazil’s coffee belt have been extended through Friday, with Minas Gerais again in the firing line.
