Margo's climate cast update - 11/02/2018

Climate report - 12/02/2018

 

217 Earthquakes in one day! And we are not even done yet!

  

THE ANTARCTIC

Antarctic ice is gradually thinning.

Here is the sea ice concentration

Areas of open ocean are appearing in the Ross Sea to the south of New Zealand.



This is at the end of the Antarctic peninsula.






 

This is what the Pacific looks like

The waters of the Tasman Sea between New Zealand and Austrlaia are warming up as the el-Nino kicks in.

THE ARCTIC

The ice is returning to the Arctic, and the concentration is high while the ice remains thin.

METHANE

These are methane emissions at surface level...

And at 500 hPa (approx 18,000 feet)