Greenland Still Impressing; Record July Chill Across Siberia; US Cold Turn; + Scientists Seek To Dim The Sun To Weaken El Niños

For most of the past decade, Greenland's surface has accumulated more snow and ice than the 1981-2010 average.

Greenland Still Impressing

Greenland’s ice sheet is currently carrying far more surface snow and ice than normal.

Latest DMI data put accumulated surface mass balance near 590 billion tonnes—roughly 100 billion tonnes above the 1981–2010 mean for this point in the season. Despite summer melt well underway, 2026 remains near the top of the recent range.

And this is not a one-year blip.

Of the past nine seasons (plotted since 2018), six finished—or, in 2026’s case, are currently running—above average:

For most of the past decade, Greenland’s surface has accumulated more snow and ice than the late-20th-century average [DMI data, plotted by Tony Heller’s Visitech.ai]

Record July Chill Across Siberia

Yesterday, I reported that Severnoye, in Russia’s Novosibirsk Oblast, fell to 5.8C (42.4F), breaking the previous low of 7.2C (45F) from 1975. But Siberia’s cold did not stop there.