On Nov 6, 9:22*am, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Nov 5, 5:45*pm, "Keith(Southend)"
wrote:



http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/a....11.5.2009.gif

Nearest match 2002.http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/a...11.11.2002.gif
and 2004http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2006/anomnight.11.11..2006.gif

Not sure I understand the red patches in the Arctic.

Or have I greatly misunderstood concerns about ice melt?

They are anomalies from the mean, not temperatures per se. Thus the
Arctic has been significantly warmer than average during the period
surveyed.