Potentially important news from the North Pole

 Looking at the 5.0 M Earthquake near the North Pole today with Margo (Mar. 3, 2021)

Conditions in the Arctic and at the North Pole

In addition to Margo's I have done my own mini-analysis below.

Sometimes it helps to look beyond your local weather forecast.

Methane, Sea Ice & Climate 

Update with Margo (Feb. 21, 

2021)

There is always far more than we are led to believe in what is reported to us that tell us what to believe about climate change.

From Margo's video.

I  found the following by Sam Carana but could not find anything to substantiate it but judging from the mistake I made we've been there before

This is from the same time in 2018. I found this:

Unusually warm winter breaks up sea ice in the Arctic

Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as it has done in previous years, but is also coming from the North Pacific through the Bering Strait.

Here is ice thickness for the last 30 days

Relative conditions in the Arctic

Temperatures

 

Temperature anomalies

Globally

This is what earth Nullschool gives as the water temperature near the North Pole

Today and tomorrow it is -7 C a the North Pole, but will get down to a freezing -19C (which to put it in context is a cold day in Moscow).

Today, it is colder in Moscow than at the Top of the World.

Temperatures are up in Austin, Texas as weather at the North Pole gets somewhat colder.

Look at the temperatures at the North Pole!

 

Temperatures at the North 

Pole are the same as in 

Moscow, Russia

This came from Sam Carana

I don't think it is quite that bad, but almost...

These are forecast temperatures at the North Pole

And these are temperatures in Russia, Moscow. Has the North Pole come to Moscow?

The ice is fracturing at Komsomolets Island in the Russian Arctic

The Arctic has certainly come to Texas. Imagine the irony of the wind turbines not working because the wind turbines have FROZEN. Imagine the liberals flailing around for excuses. What a pity Trump is not POTUS any more. They could have (and would have) blamed him for the weather.

Temperatures above freezing at North Pole - in November!!

Above Zero Celsius at North Pole November 2020

Arctic News,

11 November, 2020

The image below shows how a hot Arctic Ocean distorts the Jet Stream and hot air moves all the way up to the North Pole. 

Above image shows the Northern Hemisphere at November 12, 2020, with a temperature forecast of 2.0°C or 35.5°F at the North Pole at 1000 hPa at 15:00Z. On the right, jet stream crosses the Arctic Ocean (at 250 hPa). At surface level, a temperature is forecast to be 0.6°C or 33.2°F. 

The image below shows sea surface temperatures as high as 16.6°C or 61.9°F north of Svalbard on November 9, 2020. 

The image below shows temperature anomalies for November 12, 2020, with forecasts approaching 30°C. 

The situation is dire and calls for comprehensive and effective action, as discussed in the Climate Plan.

Links

• Climate Plan
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html

• Warning of mass extinction of species, including humans, within one decade

https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/02/warning-of-mass-extinction-of-species-including-humans-within-one-decade.html 

Cracks in the ice at the North Pole

 

Is the North Pole cracking up?

Another ice-destroying storm with rain in the Arctic basin

Will a storm in the Arctic 

chew up the last remaining 

ice?

CYCLONE COULD PUSH SEA ICE OUT OF ARCTIC OCEAN 

https://www.facebook.com/SamCarana/posts/10164143049735161

Looking at Methane & Arctic Sea Ice with Margo (Aug. 23, 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nVAQxxl_4o

Looking at the North Pole Sea Ice through the lens of the MOSAiC Expedition with Margo (8/21/20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_TBOcfsEc

 

German research icebreaker Polarstern reached the North Pole and reveals the true state of polar ice

MOSAiC expedition reaches 

the North Pole

During the final leg of the expedition, the research vessel Polarstern reaches the northernmost point on the Earth“I’m very surprised to see how soft and easy to traverse the ice up to 88° North is this year, having thawed to the point of being thin and porous,” says Captain Thomas Wunderlich. “Even after passing 88° North we mostly maintained a speed of 5-7 knots; I’ve never seen that so far north,” says Polarstern’s captain. “For this region, the current situation is historic. Normally it’s wise to avoid the region north of Greenland, because it’s home to the thicker and older ice, and virtually impassable. But now we’re finding extended stretches of open water, reaching nearly to the Pole.”

 

[19. August 2020] 

At 12:45 pm on 19 August 2020 the German research icebreaker Polarstern reached the North Pole. The ship followed a route to the north of Greenland – and through a region that, in the past, was densely covered with ice, including multiyear ice. The journey from the northern Fram Strait to the Pole only took six days to complete. To mark this momentous event, countless members of the expedition team gathered on the bridge, where their eyes were glued to the 

position monitors, and then celebrated having reached the Pole together. 

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This year satellite imagery indicated that, even past 87° North, the ice cover was surprisingly loose. Accordingly, MOSAiC Expedition Leader Prof Markus Rex and Polarstern Captain Thomas Wunderlich decided to head north, starting from the position of the last resupply rendezvous in the northern Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard. “Up until 87° 30’ North, for the most part we passed through open water, in some cases stretching to the horizon,” recalls Prof Markus Rex from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. “Based on the satellite imagery, at first we weren’t sure whether the 

loose ice cover was due to wind and currents, and were concerned that, if it was, a change in weather conditions could compact it again. Then we would have been caught in a mousetrap, and could have become trapped in the ice,” reports the MOSAiC Expedition Leader, who had previously reached the North Pole on 

board a research aircraft, in 2000. Once in the region, however, they found that much of the sea ice truly had melted away, and hadn’t simply been broken up by 

the wind. This is yet another unique phenomenon that was observed and investigated during MOSAiC, following the substantially accelerated melting rates in the Siberian sector in July. 

For the final phase of MOSAiC, the expedition team is focusing on the freezing phase: the last piece of the puzzle in terms of observing the Arctic ice throughout its annual cycle. After the MOSAiC floe, as expected, broke up near the ice edge in Fram Strait in July, the team set course further north, where the freezing phase 

will soon begin.

“I’m very surprised to see how soft and easy to traverse the ice up to 88° North is this year, having thawed to the point of being thin and porous,” says Captain Thomas Wunderlich. “Even after passing 88° North we mostly maintained a 

speed of 5-7 knots; I’ve never seen that so far north,” says Polarstern’s captain.

 “For this region, the current situation is historic. Normally it’s wise to avoid the region north of Greenland, because it’s home to the thicker and older ice, and virtually 

impassable. But now we’re finding extended stretches of open water, reaching nearly to the Pole.”

Polarstern Plaque (Photo: Lianna Nixon)

The ship’s course was determined on the basis of sea-ice charts, and was selected 

in order to provide the fastest access to 

the target region for the closing segment 

of MOSAiC, in the centre of the Transpolar 

Drift. 

Moving on from the Pole, the Polarstern may follow the Transpolar Drift a bit 

further (i.e., i.e. from the pole towards Siberia), until she reaches ca. 87° North. “Depending on the ice conditions, however, we’ll also start looking for a suitable 

floe in the vicinity of the North Pole, so that we can start working on the ice as 

soon as possible,” explains Markus Rex.The researchers’ priorities will be the beginning of freezing and the early phase of ice formation. Ideally, they will study these processes on an ice floe that is as similar to the MOSAiC floe as possible.

Conditions at the North Pole

I have found a new resource - a weather forecast for the North Pole (yes, 90 deg N) and a new overlay on NASA Worldview for sea ice concentration

From NASA Worldview

Without the overlay

From NOAA

"But the data shows an unremarkable melt season"

Sea ice at the North Pole – 9 

September, 2019

“It's slush, indicating that we've lost the buffer. Very worrying!”

—- Sam Carana in comments

To the north of the Pole...

And to the south...

But don't worry! The Snow and Ice Data Center tells you otherwise, so you don't need to believe your own eyes.

Despite this...