Hourly Weather - Knarvik, Norway

Cracks cutting across Antarctica’s Brunt ice shelf are on course to truncate the shelf and release an iceberg about twice the size of New York City. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from February 7, 2019, shows two lengthening fractures: a large chasm running northward and a split, dubbed Halloween Crack, that has been extending eastwards since October 2016. (European Space Agency) At a Glance Two cracks are close to converging on the Brunt Ice Shelf.The resulting iceberg could have a surface...