On 08/05/18 21:51, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 9:00:30 PM UTC+1, Alastair wrote:
On Friday, 4 May 2018 07:41:40 UTC+1, Graham P Davis wrote:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/20...er-ice-season/


Did you see the link at the bottom of that page to the change in
sea ice in the Bering Sea? The sea ice there seems to have gone
completely in only 5 years.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IO...w.php?id=92084


Yes, that is quite a dramatic change. It'll be interesting to see if
it remains that way over the next 5 years.


Also check what happened there in February, particularly 22nd:
https://seaice.uni-bremen.de/databrowser/#day=22&month=1&year=2018&img={%22image%22:%22imag e-1%22,%22sensor%22:%22AMSR%22,%22type%22:%22visual% 22,%22region%22:%22Arctic%22}

Anything could happen in next 5 years. Changes in a particular area can
be extreme and somewhat unrelated to overall change. The excess ice off
E Greenland in the 60s persisted for a decade but, in 1969, I correctly
predicted that it would come to an end and that, in the early 70s, the
severe winter weather and associated heavy ice conditions would occur in
the Davis Strait and Labrador area instead.

Although I had that success fifty years ago, my prediction a little over
a decade ago of an ice-free Arctic by 2020 is looking somewhat unlikely
but I expect there'll be another record low maximum by then.

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