Arctic temperatures risen above freezing
Temperatures recorded by Arctic monitoring stations rose above freezing on Thursday, triggered by the same El Niño influenced weather events that have been deluging the UK with rain from Storm Frank.
Canadian government meteorologist Nathalie Hasell told AFP that “this deep depression has pushed hot air as far as the North Pole, where temperatures are at least 20 degrees above normal, at around freezing point, between zero and two degrees”.