Thursday, August 1, 2019, was one of the worst days in history for the Greenland ice sheet. It set a record for single-day volume loss, with an estimated 12.5 billion tons of ice melting and pouring into the ocean, reported Smithsonian.
Combining the melting events of Wednesday, July 31 and Thursday, August 1, Martin Stendel, climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute, explained on Twitter that the amount of ice melted would enough to cover the entire state of Florida in nearly five inches of water. It’s the biggest melt that has occured since scientists began tracking data in 1950.
