I might be jumping the gun a bit here, but it looks to me like Arctic sea ice extent might have bottomed out on the 11th of September in conclusion of the 2019-20 season. Hopefully the …
Arctic sea ice minimum for 2019-20 second lowest on record Read More »
I thought that I would try out the new WordPress compare widget with images of the North Atlantic SST anomalies with the latest from September 2nd 2020 and those of September 18th last year. The cold …
The 2019-20 Arctic sea ice extent on the 29th of August was the second lowest on record. It was significantly 0.284 million square kilometers lower that at the same time last year, but Arctic sea ice …
There are certain problem years that come along every so often that cause climate scientists to contact the Department of Odd Climate statistics down at the UKMO in Exeter. Global temperatures in 2016 is an annoying …
For the last three days the haar that’s been adffecting the east coast of England and Scotland has been stubborn to clear. Here in easter Ross it took till almost tea time yesterday before it finally …
There are a lot of stories doing the rounds at the moment about the demise of Arctic sea ice in the summer. These predictions come along on a fairly regularly basis – someone, somewhere, hears about …
More dire predictions about how Arctic sea ice in summer will be gone by 2035 Read More »
I downloaded the latest sea ice extent data from the NSIDC this evening fully expecting to find the 2019-20 season remained the lowest on record for the ninth of August as it a has been for …
Someone’s left the fridge door open for far too long in the Arctic Read More »
A cool July across most of the North Atlantic and northwest Europe come to that. Above average temperatures seem to have been pushed back to the continents of Africa, central Asia and North America. It may …
July 2020 – North Atlantic mean temperature anomalies Read More »
This years summer minimum ice extent in the Arctic looks all set to dip below four million square kilometres for only the second time in the satellite record. On the 26th of July it was already …
Arctic sea ice extent 2019-20 set to challenge record minimum of 2011-12 Read More »
In just six weeks a new SST hotspot has erupted in the North Pacific. I seem to remember a similar hotspot appeared before and quite recently. It maybe that the warmer water to the south back …
The heatwave across Siberia in the last month has had a serious knock on effect on sea ice in the Laptev Sea and hence the total Arctic sea ice extent at the moment (11 July) it …
The cold blob in the central North Atlantic has grown in size and intensified a little since July of last year, and the cooler waters have extended westward towards Ireland. In the meantime the waters around …
Antarctic sea ice extent this year, as of the 22nd of June, stands at around 98.8% of the 1981-2010 LTA, and 24th highest out of 42 seasons in the satellite record maintained by the NSIDC. It’s …
Third lowest extent for Arctic Sea Ice on the 9th of June, 91.0% of the daily LTA, and marginally higher than it was at the same date in 2019.
My own simplistic approach to the problem of calculating when the Arctic will be totally free of sea ice in summer without the use of a supercomputer and sophisticated climate models, is to extrapolate a linear …
The chances of no Arctic sea ice in summer before 2050 Read More »
Here are the latest SST charts for around the UK in a little more detail than Meteogroup could manage, perhaps they thought that the extra detail might be a distraction and the intelligence of the average …
If warmer oceans have anything to do with more frequent and more powerful hurricanes, then this years high SST anomalies might well put that hypothesis to the test. The Atlantic off the coast of Africa, is …
It seems to me that although the MOSAiC expedition may end up being a huge success as far as a collaborative scientific mission goes, it missed the most important aspect (to me at least) of reaching …
The better start to the Arctic sea ice extent season didn’t last too long because of a week or so of large daily losses during the second half of March, which look like they seem to …
If circulation of deep waters in the Atlantic stops or slows due to climate change, it could cause cooling in northern North America and Europe—a scenario that has occurred during past cold glacial periods. Now, a …
How stable is deep ocean circulation in warmer climate? Read More »
There seems to be no respite in the exceptional warmth that we have seen across much of Europe, Scandinavia and western Russia this winter. Mean temperature anomalies for the first thirteen days of March are close …
As far as I can see from the SII data that I download from the NSIDC, it looks like the Arctic sea ice season 2019-20 has returned the highest maximum sea ice extent in seven years …
I think we can safely say that the season minimum in the Antarctic has now been passed on the 19th of February, a couple of days earlier than average, with a minimum sea ice extent of …
The Arctic sea ice extent on the 11th of February was the highest for that date since 2015. The total had climbed to within two standard deviations of average and was only 3.8% below the 1988-2016 LTA for that date, which is quite remarkable given that it started from the second lowest minimum on record back in September,