In the summer of 2024, the ice caps of the vast polar archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean underwent extreme melting caused by exceptionally high air temperatures.
In late July and early August 2024, the temperature near the Svalbard archipelago was kept at about 4 degrees Celsius, which is above the average for this part of the world.
Climatologists from the University of Liege reported that on July 23, 2024, the ice caps of Svalbard broke the record for daily melting of the surface. The rapid melting of the ice continued in August.
In Longyearbyen, the administrative center of the Norwegian province of Svalbard (Svalbard Archipelago), on August 11, the temperature reached 20.3 degrees Celsius, which was the highest temperature in August in the entire history of observations, atomic-energy.ru reports.
Alex Shishlo, Editor in Chief of the European Bureau, Rough&Polished
