​In Greenland, temperatures were more suitable for the beginning of summer than for the first days of March. In Nuuk, the capital of the largest island on the globe, it was warmer than in Copenhagen. Greenland is an autonomous territory that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

On March 4, it was +15 C in the capital, Nuuk, when the temperature should normally be around -5 C. The average March temperature is somewhere around -9, -7 C in a city with a population of less than 20,000.

Data from Weatheronline.co.uk showed that even overnight lows were unusually high: +6, +8C.

Temperatures of +15 C are mostly observed in June, July and August in Nuuk. The heat wave is estimated to have left the north of the island up to 25 degrees above normal for the period.

The heat wave is caused by a phenomenon that meteorologists call the “Greenland Block,” when a high-pressure area stagnates and the air heats up in the lower part, writes the Washington Post.

The Canadian provinces of Nunavut, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador were also much warmer than normal. In the coldest places, the night temperature should be somewhere around -35C, but it rose to -15C.

The temperature record for Greenland was set on July 30, 2013 +25.9 C in Manitsok on the southwest coast. The previous record was +25.5 C in Kangerlussuaq on July 27, 1990.

In Nuuk, the absolute minimum was -32.5 C, and the maximum was +24.9 C.

The absolute minimum for Greenland was -67 C at the Summit weather station, located at an altitude of more than 3000 m.

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