On 23/07/2014 20:29, Alastair McDonald wrote:

*European overview*

22nd JULY 2014

Max 0C Min 0C Rain (mm)

Not Europe
1.0 -17.1 - Summit(3202m)Greenland


And you thought it was hot here...

Has to be close to a record high!

I recall this happening before a year or so back. It led to somewhat
hysterical headlines of the nature 'Entire Greenland ice sheet surface
melting!' When of course in reality it's just the temp struggling a
degree or
so above freezing for probably an hour or so.

The record high is +3.6 on 16th July 2012

--
Norman Lynagh

Yes, it happened two years ago and it was said "that melting events of this
type occur about once every 150 years on average."
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/fea...land-melt.html

That's a very quick 150 years then.



--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham