http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre...ex_en.html#ice

I suspect that the large number of bergs and the N Atlantic cold SST pool
were probably both caused by stronger than usual NW winds in Davis Strait
during the Spring. I don't have monthly pressure-anomaly charts so can't say
for sure.

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