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A dome of high pressure, indicated by dark orange colors, built over France and Northern Europe in late July 2019, and then shifted north and west across the Atlantic. It brought a thick column of warm air and cloudless skies that triggered above average melting on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet. NOAA Climate.gov animation, based on CDAS data from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.