Scientists have been shocked and perplexed by rain from the sky in places on Earth where no rain has been recorded since 1950.
Rainfall was recorded for the first time on a wide strip of land 2 miles above sea level in Greenland and is being attributed to climate change.
The 3216-meter-high peak usually has temperatures below freezing, but recently hot air caused heavy rains and 7 billion tons of water fell on the ice sheet.
The US National Science Foundation's meteorological station saw rain at the site on August 14 but did not have the test scale because they did not expect it at all.
The rains came as temperatures in Greenland hovered above 18 degrees Celsius for three days, with snow melting in most parts of Greenland.
"There is no precedent for what is happening, we have seen something that has probably not been seen for centuries," said Tedd Schumboz, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado. That is, things cannot change unless we fix everything we do with the atmosphere.
Greenland also had massive snow melt in July, and 2021 became the fourth year of the last century when such massive snow melted.
This happened before in 1995, 2012 and 2019.
The melting of rain and snow between August 14 and 16 is being hailed as one of the most significant climatic events of the year.
The reason for the snow melting in July and August is the same, ie the hot air spreads upwards in the region.
Scientists say such incidents are not unprecedented, but their severity is increasing.
If all of Greenland's ice melts, global sea levels will rise by up to 6 meters, although this may take centuries, but since 1994, billions of tons have melted from Greenland, raising sea levels.
The sea level has risen by 20 cm so far and according to the IPCC, it could rise by another 28 to 100 meters.
