{"id":89105,"date":"2022-07-26T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/greenland-lost-enough-ice-over-three-days-to-put-west-virginia-under-a-foot-of-water"},"modified":"2022-10-18T19:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T19:33:21","slug":"greenland-lost-enough-ice-over-three-days-to-put-west-virginia-under-a-foot-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/greenland-lost-enough-ice-over-three-days-to-put-west-virginia-under-a-foot-of-water","title":{"rendered":"Greenland lost enough ice over three days to put West Virginia under a foot of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite imagery is showing just how intense a recent heatwave Greenland has been. A photo from the EU&#8217;s Copernicus satellites shows massive tons of sediment pouring into a fjord &#8211; a glacial bay leading into the ocean &#8211; as ice from the island&#8217;s vast ice sheet melted this month. Recent heat in nothern Greenland melted nearly six billion tonnes of ice in just three days &#8211; enough water to leave the entire state of West Virginia standing in a foot water, scientists said. Temperatures in the Arctic region have recently hit 60 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly 16 degrees Celsius). Northern Greenland normally remains below freezing, even in summer, with maximum temperatures around 32F (0C). The extreme heat led to extensive melting from the island&#8217;s gigantic ice sheet , between 15-17 July, sending billions of gallons of freshwater into the ocean. Footage from CNN showed water streaming across the landscape. Ice sheets are melting because of excess heat trapped in the atmosphere,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite imagery is showing just how intense a recent heatwave Greenland has been.A photo from the EU&#8217;s Copernicus satellites shows massive tons of sediment pouring into a fjord &#8211; a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[215,42,217],"class_list":["post-89105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news","tag-environment","tag-politics","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}