What are the main weather phenomena in the Arctic summer

The climate in the Arctic is cold all year round. Arctic Ocean.

It is a vast frozen ocean, surrounded by numerous islands and North America.

and the coastal areas of northern Asia. The North Pole is the northern end of the Earth's axis of rotation, which is the point at 90°N. The Arctic region refers to the Arctic Circle near the North Pole at 66°34 north latitude.

within the region. In winter, the sun is always on the horizon.

Below, the sea is completely frozen in ice. In summer, temperatures rise above freezing, the marginal areas of the Arctic Ocean melt, and the sun hangs in the sky for weeks on end. The Arctic Ocean is rich in fish and plankton, which provides abundant food for the millions of seabirds that nest here during the summer**, as well as for seals, whales and other marine animals.

Most of the area around the Arctic Ocean is relatively flat and there are no trees growing. In winter, the ground freezes and the ground is covered with a thick layer of snow. In summer, the snow melts, the topsoil thaws, and the plants grow and bloom, which are reindeer.

and animals such as musk oxen provided food. At the same time, wolves and polar bears.

and other carnivores also survive by preying on other animals. The Arctic is one of the most sparsely populated regions in the world. For thousands of years, the Inuit (formerly known as the Eskimos) have lived here for generations.

The Arctic is a veritable world of ice and snow, but due to the movement of ocean currents, the sea ice on the surface of the Arctic Ocean is constantly drifting, cracking and melting, so it is impossible to accumulate thousands of meters of ice and snow over millions of years like the Antarctic continent. As a result, the total amount of ice and snow in the Arctic is only close to 1 10 of that of Antarctica, and most of it is concentrated in Greenland.

of continental ice sheets, while the Arctic Ocean sea ice, other islands and surrounding land contain only a small fraction of the permanent snow and ice. The vast majority of the surface of the Arctic Ocean is covered by sea ice all year round, making it the only white ocean on Earth. The Arctic Ocean sea ice is on average 3 metres thick and covers 73 per cent of the total ocean area in winter, or about 1,000,11 million square kilometres, and 53 per cent, or about 750,800 square kilometres in summer.

**Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been around for 3 million years and is permanent.

The southern boundary of sea ice is not fixed and can often vary by several hundred kilometres depending on hydrometeorological conditions. Under the action of wind and ocean currents, ice floes can accumulate and form huge icebergs. The vast majority of icebergs commonly seen refer to huge bodies of ice larger than 5 meters in diameter that have collapsed from continental edge ice shelves or continental ice sheets.

Large table-shaped icebergs are typically up to 200 300 metres thick and have an average lifespan of up to 4 years. If you're lucky, you might even see a particularly huge iceberg, tens of kilometers long, like a white land stretching across the dark gray sea. Icebergs formed by sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, together with icebergs formed by glaciers and ice shelves from islands such as Greenland, carry ocean currents into the Atlantic Ocean or Alaska.

In the open sea, individual icebergs can drift south to 40°N.

The Arctic has a polar ice field climate. Polar ice sheets are found in and around the polar regions, including Greenland, several islands in the Arctic Ocean, and the ice-sheet plateaus of the Antarctic continent. This is the birthplace of the ice ocean air mass and the Antarctic air mass, the whole winter is in the state of eternal night, although the summer half of the year is eternal day, but the sunlight is oblique, the heat obtained is weak, so the climate is severe cold throughout the year, and the temperature of each month is below 0.

The Arctic region is cold, dry, and windy all year round. Compared to Antarctica, the Arctic region is warmer and receives more annual precipitation. The climate in Antarctica is very cold, dry, and gale, and the climate is even harsher, just for reference!

The Arctic climate is described as cold in one word, the Arctic refers to the area within the Arctic Circle, covered with thick ice and snow all year round, with an average temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the lowest temperature can drop to minus 50 degrees, making it one of the coldest regions on Earth.

The average temperature in January in the Arctic ranges from -40 to 0, and the minimum temperature can drop below -50 in most parts of winter. The average temperature in July ranges from -10 to 10, with summer highs of over 30 in some areas.

From the perspective of global climate change in 2022, in fact, the high temperature in the Arctic is not an abnormal thing. After all, the world's high temperatures are very ferocious, and they are "once in a century" and "the strongest temperature ever" at every turn.

According to national satellite meteorological data, during June 2022, the global area with a surface temperature above 40 and 50 accounted for the global total, respectively.

North Africa, Asia, South Asia, North America, Europe and other places all experienced surface temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius and exceeded 5 days. For example, there is also a once-in-a-century high temperature in Shanghai, China, which is as high as more than 40 degrees.

Arctic weather temperatures are based on monitoring data.

Antarctic sea ice cover in June 2023 was about 13.07 million square kilometres of rubber infiltration, the lowest in recent years, and about 10,000 square kilometres less than the average sea ice area for the same period from 2019 to 2021 (decreased, and about 10,000 square kilometres less than the same period last year. And the Arctic is the same.

The unusually high temperatures in the Arctic have also sparked heated discussions again, with temperatures in the Arctic Circle soaring to degrees Celsius in July this year. As a result, the ice sheet, which covers Greenland, the world's largest island, is also melting at an accelerated rate. Scientists in the Arctic even played ice volleyball in short-sleeved shorts.

Therefore, it is quite rare, and wearing short sleeves in the Arctic is definitely a "bad signal", which shows that the development of global warming is still expanding.

The Arctic has a glacial climate in the Arctic Shedland. The polar ice sheets are found in and around the polar regions, including the return of Greenland, several islands in the Arctic Ocean, and the ice-sheet plateau of the Antarctic continent. This is the birthplace of the ice ocean air mass and the Antarctic air mass, the whole winter is in the state of eternal night, although the summer half of the year is eternal day, but the sun is oblique, the heat obtained is weak, so the climate is severe throughout the year, and the temperature of each month is below 0.