In northern Canada, on the coast of the Arctic, south of Banks Island, temperatures have reached 74 degrees, and have broken records for 12 straight days.
The image above is from the Weather Underground site:
http://www.wunderground.com/global/Region/CN/2xTemperature.html?MR=1
PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW TO ENLARGE IT AND SEE THE DETAILS.
http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=06&fd=08&fy=2007&sm=06&sd=08&sy=2008
The graph below is updated sporadically, and the end of the blue line flops around like a wet noodle (i.e., the last two weeks cannot be viewed as a definitive measure).
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW TO ENLARGE IT -- NOTICE THAT THIS YEAR THE SEA ICE IS MELTING AWAY IN THE CENTER OF THE ARCTIC SEA.
Link to image: http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/amsre.html
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