Iqaluit (Nunavut) sizzles through hottest day on record

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Source: Nunatsiaq News

Iqaluit residents stripped down to shorts, T-shirts and halter tops this week during a record-smashing heat wave that produced the warmest maximum temperature ever seen in the community.

On Monday, July 21, a temperature of 26.8 C was recorded at the Iqaluit airport, making it the highest temperature reading in Iqaluit since 1946, when record-keeping began.

... The normal temperature range for July, usually the warmest month in the eastern Arctic, is between 12 C and 4 C.

... Ironically, Mother Nature gave us these record high temperatures just as a major gathering on climate change got underway in Iqaluit at the Frobisher Inn.


Read more: http://nunatsiaq.com/news/iqaluit/80725_1391.html

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