Interesting weather fact.
We're visiting family in Ontario, and like the rest of the continental NE, the weather is unseasonably warm. This morning at 730am, the temp was 15C. I just happened to click on Mazatlan's figure, and...
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Dave B110 wrote:
I always remember the stories of the Vikings establishing themselves in Greenland, a thousand years ago. It must have been warmer then.
...oh ya. About 5+C warmer on average annually from ~~ 2000BP to ~1000BP (Atmospheric Environment Service; Environment Canada)
The sea surface temperature around western Newfoundland from ~9.5 to ~8.6 thousand years ago was quite a bit colder than today. Then, sea surface temperatures around Newfoundland were warmer than today's from ~4000 to ~1000 years before present (all measured using dinocist proxies: Palynology; 27 2003; pp135-154 ).
The Vikings would have likely had an easy sail to and living on Newfoundland; but it would have probably been very wet (much higher ave. annual precipitation than today).
