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The melt season on the Greenland Ice Sheet typically ends in August, but two significant melt spikes occurred in September 2022. The graph traces the daily melt area of the ice sheet in 2022 (blue) compared to the 1991-2020 average (white). The background image shows electric blue melt lakes on the ice sheet near Ilulissat, on the west coast (North has been rotated counterclockwise about 90 degrees), on September 1, 2022. Read the full story. NOAA Climate.gov image, based on Landsat data from GLOVIS and melt data provided by Tom Mote.