Scorching Greenland Sees Summer Ice Melt Season Start In April

Blistering temperatures and rainfall over Greenland have jump-started the summer melt season weeks early. On Monday, a stunning 12 percent of Greenland’s massive ice sheet was melting — “smashing by a month the previous records of more than 10 percent of the ice sheet melting,” according to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/13/3768915/greenland-ice-melt-stuns/