On Monday, 1 April 2019 13:06:01 UTC+1, N_Cook wrote:
On 01/04/2019 09:25, wrote:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

I know I shouldn't pick on the peabrain but the is something desperate about his clinging on to the fake news; like Wiley Coyote leaving scratch marks on the canyon wall on his way down. Piquant of ...

Maybe Antarctica will go that way also /Arctic go lower for the global
total to be a record low in the next week or so.

Antarctica is growing in these spells not diminishing. Any discussion of what is happening in the Arctic requires an explanation of the 100kph windspeeds so close to the shore of Greenland, so soon after weather-spell-breaking volcanic events.

as NOAA seems to have stopped updating again, here
https://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ONI_v5.php
third thursday came and went.
A spot evaluation for the "El Nino" sea-area for 28 March 2019, was +0.93
SST anomaly
Such sadstickdicks are so far removed for causes that it is foolish to even discuss them.

But back to business:
The sensible among us (that is: I) have instituted a new name for the as yet undiscussed phenomemna of Antarctic Ice development. In cycles of extensive retrograde celestial motion the development is mirrored in the Antarctic ensuring increased growth in its glaciers, which in turn, presumably, make their effect known to the Global Conveyor.

The number of anticyclones increases pouring more polarised air into the Southern Oceans installing for want of a better term; a subscript of more water onto the continent.
Normally in periods of ordinary volcanic activity (few retrograde planets) the isobars that surround the continent join up making a belt a dew isobars deep.
With the present cycle the number of isobars is much wider often producing a twin layer with cyclones and or anticyclones separating them.

It would appear that these periods are responding to the cause of anomalous snow periods.