On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 09:26:37 -0700 (PDT)
Alastair wrote:

On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 11:35:16 PM UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins
wrote:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/at...-at-north-pole

That was the summer before the fabled winter of 1962/63

A bit like this year!

ftp://ftp-projects.zmaw.de/seaice/AM...R2_3.125km.png
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/mea...meanT_2016.png
https://sites.google.com/site/arctic...entration-maps
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/analysis/nh.xml
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/am...2_previous.png

Yes, except that the extent of the ice this year at the moment is half
what it was in 1963.

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