Rapid changes in the Arctic - 13 August, 2019

It is raining at the North Pole today

Large areas of ice have broken up and melted within the 80 deg N parallel

The sea ice is disappearing quickly.

This is the area we are talking about.

This is many hundreds of kilometers of now open ocean.

This will, no doubt, melt in the next week

This is to the north of Novaya Zemlya

Changes to sea ice concentration in the last 30 days

Changes to sea ice thickness in the last 30 days

The latest on sea ice thickness from the US Navy site

The latest in methane emissions