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The usual images of the North Pole are impressive ice sheets, but scenes from a webcam there reveal a different story. Meteorologists ... that temperatures in early July ... one to three degrees Celsius ... than the year’s average over most of the Arctic Ocean. Thanks to rapidly melting ice, Santa Claus now ... his own swimming pool. The North Pole is currently a lake. The lake is about a foot deep, ... entirely of the melted ice itself. It shows a dramatic change is the Arctic climate. In fact, a pool of melted water ... at the North Pole every year now since 2002. The mythical home of Santa Claus ... officially flooded!