Antarctic sea ice doing well
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 …
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Arctic sea ice marginally higher than last year
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.
The chances of no Arctic sea ice in summer before 2050
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 …
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Just how cold is the North Sea at the moment?
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 …
April SST and the 2020 hurricane season
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 …
MOSAiC expedition flushed out of Arctic
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 …
A quick dip in Arctic sea ice
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 …
How stable is deep ocean circulation in warmer climate?
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 …
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The warmth continues
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 …
Arctic Sea Ice – highest since 2012-13
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 …
Antarctic Sea Ice : 2019-20
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 …
Highest sea ice extent since 2015
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,
Second Pacific warm blob
All we need now is a warm blob to suddenly occur of the coast of Japan and for Godzilla to make an appearance!
Super mild Europe and Russia
Mean temperatures across Russia have continued to be well above average so far this January as they were in December.
South Pacific Hot Spot
A closer look at the South Pacific hot spot off the east coast of New Zealand
Antarctic sea ice extent holding on too
Having said that the sea extent is almost 14% lower than the LTA with a massive gap in the Weddell sea and large hole in the Ross sea.
Return of the blob
Is it time to bring Captain Nemo or perhaps Troy Tempest out of retirement to investigate the cause of the latest warm blob in the Pacific ocean?
Antarctic sea ice extent continues to slowly improve
Antarctic sea ice maximum reached on the 30th of September as loose tooth drops out
