Arctic Sea Ice Heading For Normal!

Arctic Sea Ice Extent is well within one standard deviation for this day, and is now heading for the 1981-2010 mean.

2004 was the last time it was higher for this day.

3 thoughts on “Arctic Sea Ice Heading For Normal!”

Alec, aka daffy duck says:

December 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM

Ice in the Bering Strait and Bering Sea way below normal…
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/recent365.anom.region.2.html

…but will likely start catching up by the end of the year… Sea ice could reach ‘normal’ by January 1

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1. Alec, aka daffy duck says:
  
  December 4, 2013 at 1:42 PM
  
  Hmmm… Barents Sea also looks like it could have very rapid growth by Jan 1
  http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/recent365.anom.region.6.html
  
  If you switch this graphic to sst anomalies, then compare 10 days ago to today you’ll see the Barents Sea has cooled a lot
  http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/satellite/index.uk.php
  
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2. Alec, aka daffy duck says:
  
  December 7, 2013 at 5:08 AM
  
  Bering Sea and Strait will start freezing up tomorrow… The extended forecast for Nome. http://m.accuweather.com/en/us/nome-ak/99762/extended-weather-forecast/326709
  
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