Weather and Climate

Sorry, time flies, you now need to go back 4 years to get the real cool pool, not the couple of years

Yes you're right currently the extent stands at 98.7% of average - I'll check the plotting of

Antarctic sea ice extent continues to show gains from the disastrous losses of the last two years. At

Arctic sea ice extent has rallied in the last few weeks and is currently only 6th lowest for any June

The Arctic 2017-18 sea ice season bucked it's ideas up since the New Year, and ended up

TY Bruce. Interesting playing around. Very unlikely there'll be a record this year, despite such

Bruce, You were correct to flag up the slow recovery of the ice. The latest state of the Arctic is

Bruce, The previous record for Arctic sea ice extent in October was achieved in 2007, and in 2012. If

I've added some code to my Sea Ice application to download the sea ice extent images from the

Weather-driven though Bruce. It's interesting and thank you for posting this, but no more than

That makes sense! One day that may happen to the whole of the Arctic.

Odd, isn't it? The meting of Antarctic sea ice is subject to different processes than Arctic sea

Someone (John Dann on UKSW) has kindly pointed out to me that the NSIDC now use a trailing five-day

Doubt it John. The reasons for ice extent changes at both poles are very different. The only thing

I know the kind of graph you're thinking about - but I would have to knock up some code! Maybe

Can't say I'm ever going to be happy about this, but it will happen with a melting Arctic.

It is always down to weather conditions during any individual melt season, Bruce. I urged caution