"Ron Button" wrote in message
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In view of the current conjecture on here about the warmth of this winters
Northerly outbreaks( ignoring of course they are nearly all of Atlantic
origin and not Polar),does anybody have the real facts concerning actual sea
temps over the Norwegian Sea ,and whether the sea ice is really any
different this year ?.
With the lack of any Polar Highs this year isn't inevitable that any
Northerlies which do occur will always be around 6C ,i.e the normal
temperature of the seas off our northern coasts,and until and unless we get
a true Arctic blow nothing much will happen this winter.

RonB

If you go to my webpage at
http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/north.htm
you can compare today's Arctic ice with that going back for five years. This
year the concentration is very low in the section of the Arctic Ocean north of
the Norwegian Sea, just when it should be at its maximum. This low
concentration stretches to the North Pole, although it is not obvious because
the pole is not at the centre of the ice as might be imagined.

There are other links to Norwegian Sea SSTs at my home page, but the only
anomaly map is the FNMOC global SST anomaly map.
http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.