Observations on Arctic sea ice

The Arctic sea ice is breaking up

I borrowed Harold H Hensel's Arctic sea-ice photo and did some additional investigation on Climate Reanayzer for the next 7 days.

It appears that the Arctic ice-cap has broken away from northern Greenland and has been driven by the wind eastward toward northern Russia and much-warmer sea-water there, which will accelerate further melt and break-up.

High pressure remains entrenched across northern Greenland over the next 7 days, causing a clockwise rotation of wind which will drive Arctic surf against the remaining sea-ice from the west of Greenland. Daily high temperatures across the open ocean west of the ice-sheet are forecast to be in the 40s to near 50 according to Climate Reanalyzer.

---Mark Richardson via Facebook