The melting Arctic - update - 07/03/2017

In the Arctic today

From Neven's Sea Ice Blog forum

https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,1834.2500.html

Fracturing sea ice as seen from Yakutia to Alaska. Note the penetration of fractures deep into CAB - it is here where the next calving may occur (especially if winds arise to pull ice further apart).

Heavily pulverized sea ice around Svalbard / Franz Joseph Land heading to the Atlantic 3.7.2017.

Thanks, Harold Hensel

The Mackenzie River in Canada continues to pour warmer water into the Mackenzie Bay in the Beaufort Sea. 07/02/2017

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=arctic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor%28hidden%29%2CMODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor%28hidden%29%2CMODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor%2CReference_Labels%2CReference_Features%28hidden%29%2CCoastlines&t=2017-07-02&z=3&v=-2457732.5246859454%2C-190773.22426721125%2C-1474692.5246859456%2C295626

“It is steaming hot in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas and the CAA. The thin ice in the Beaufort is melting away like a frozen Margarita in Texas in July. That said the DMI 80ºN to the pole graph has been on the cool side.

The weather/climate models don't have any way to deal with the problems of thin ice so I have little confidence in the CFSv2 forecasts I have been reviewing. It's going to be very interesting to see how the weather responds to the early melt out in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

The main channel of the CAA is also showing signs of early break up. There's a lot going on and I wouldn't be surprised to see the melt out go very quickly on the Alaskan side of the Arctic ocean”

Ice over 1m thick ( 1 meter thick ice removed)

Meanwhile we have a fact-free zone where, no matter what the reality, black is always white and down is always up.

Record Summer Cold Continues At The North Pole

The short polar melt season is almost half over, and hasn’t actually begun yet.

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