Chilly In August?
Record Summer Chills Sweep The Great Lakes, Northeast, and
Southern Canada. The chill will sweep the likes of Kentucky and Michigan.
Morning lows in the Upper Peninsula, for example, look almost frosty:
The European weather model forecasts near-record cold air over Northern California this week, with temperatures at 5,000 feet expected to crash below 40F—some 20F below normal. Summer snow is in the forecast. And swaths of the Eastern U.S. continue to endure August lows not seen in decades.
On Tuesday, July 30, 2024, the Greenland ice sheet posted a remarkable ≈3 Gigaton July gain. Data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) show this to be one of the highest daily summer additions since records began in 1981. This figure is only bested by the ≈4 Gigaton set at the beginning of the month on July 1, 2024.