Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Is So High It May Set A Record For Highest Minimum of All Time
The Extent for day 10 is 1.48 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. And only 220,000 sq km below 2008.
The highest minimum was in 2008. Sea Ice only fell to 3.69 million sq km on day 51.
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It appears “Global Warming” can make ice freeze early too. Ha!
(NEW YORK) — In the midst of record-breaking bitter cold, the U.S. Coast Guard has been relentlessly fighting against ice buildup in the Great Lakes region in an effort to keep important shipping channels open.
“The Coast Guard said it was the earliest the ice had frozen here since the 1930s, and the river connecting Lakes Superior and Huron has been some of the toughest ice they have seen. With cutting through ice, the noise is loud and constant.”
http://www.wwgp1050.com/2014/01/07/us-coast-guard-battles-ice-to-keep-shipping-channels-open/
“Authorities reported at least 21 cold-related deaths across the country since Sunday, including seven in Illinois and six in Indiana. At least five people died after collapsing while shoveling snow, while several victims were identified as homeless people who either refused shelter or didn’t make it to a warm haven soon enough.
In Missouri on Monday, a 1-year-old boy was killed when the car he was riding in struck a snow plow, and a 20-year-old woman was killed in a separate crash after her car slid on ice and into the path of a tractor-trailer.
In a phenomenon that forecasters said is actually not all that unusual, all 50 states saw freezing temperatures at some point Tuesday. That included Hawaii, where it was 18 degrees atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano.”
So far in 2014, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1.15 million sq km above 2013 and 1.54 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
More remarkably it is only 400,000 sq km below the extraordinary high extent that occurred at a similar period in 2008.
Extent has been more than two standard deviations above the mean since Dec 26 2013 and one standard deviation above the mean since May 29 2013.
“When they’ve got scientific evidence on their side, green campaigners spew hate speech about the evil science deniers on the other side. But the moment a scientific consensus attacks some cherished green myth (organic good, GMO bad, for example), they spew hate speech against scientists as corporate shills.”
Yup. Ever try and argue with a greenie that banning DDT killed millions? They get ugly really quick.
From 1895 to 1998 the Contiguous USA warmed at a very small rate of .78F per century. The NOAA graph is here.
The interesting thing is that 34% of the warming occurred in the month of February. January even had a slight cooling trend.
From 1998 to 2013, the USA cooled at a rate of -3.33F per century. February was responsible for 66% of the cooling.
Any ideas? Is it an NOAA artifact or something else? It seems strange that CO2 would prefer February for 100 years and then forsake it. 🙂
Graphs for each month/period below. (The percentages do not add up properly because some months were going in opposite direction of overall trend, but they give an idea of the magnitude)
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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is off to a pretty amazing start. 1.58 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. 23% above normal.
Note quite as amazing as 2008 though. Remember, all the years from 1979 on are on the graph below. 2014 and 2008 are pretty far out there.
Click to enlarge. Data here.
2013 was a well below average year for Arctic Sea Ice Extent .
Max Extent of 15.16969 For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 73 March 14
Max Anomaly For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 145 May 25 = -0.05969577
Max Anomaly % For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 145 May 25 = -0.4662094
Mean Anomaly For Whole Year: = -0.6446271
2013 was ranked 30th out of 36 years for average anomaly above the 1981-2010 mean – just below 2009, but 530,000 sq km above 2012.
30 2013 -0.64
31 2005 -0.66
32 2006 -0.79
33 2010 -0.86
34 2011 -1.08
35 2007 -1.09
36 2012 -1.17
There were zero daily records set and no 2nd places.
Number of daily records sorted by Top 2
| Year | First | Second | Top 2 |
| 1982 | 54 | 69 | 123 |
| 1983 | 48 | 38 | 86 |
| 1980 | 42 | 39 | 81 |
| 1979 | 59 | 19 | 78 |
| 1992 | 22 | 54 | 76 |
| 1996 | 39 | 17 | 56 |
| 1981 | 26 | 12 | 38 |
| 1988 | 6 | 29 | 35 |
| 1978 | 24 | 5 | 29 |
| 1987 | 5 | 23 | 28 |
| 1985 | 15 | 12 | 27 |
| 1986 | 15 | 9 | 24 |
| 1989 | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| 1993 | 4 | 13 | 17 |
Here are the key stats for each year. Min/Max/Anomaly in millions sq km.
| Year | Min | Max | day of Max | day of Min | Avg Anomaly |
| 1979 | 6.89236 | 16.56457 | 60 | 264 | 0.75 |
| 1980 | 7.52476 | 16.25042 | 65 | 249 | 0.76 |
| 1981 | 6.88784 | 15.71365 | 73 | 253 | 0.56 |
| 1982 | 7.15423 | 16.27475 | 58 | 256 | 0.87 |
| 1983 | 7.19145 | 16.33207 | 73 | 251 | 0.76 |
| 1984 | 6.39916 | 15.76157 | 78 | 260 | 0.34 |
| 1985 | 6.4799 | 16.11716 | 76 | 250 | 0.42 |
| 1986 | 7.12351 | 16.11934 | 69 | 249 | 0.63 |
| 1987 | 6.89159 | 16.21724 | 52 | 245 | 0.7 |
| 1988 | 7.04905 | 16.24163 | 70 | 255 | 0.6 |
| 1989 | 6.88931 | 15.72295 | 65 | 265 | 0.4 |
| 1990 | 6.0191 | 16.21077 | 71 | 264 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 6.26027 | 15.58803 | 56 | 259 | 0.18 |
| 1992 | 7.16324 | 15.53258 | 72 | 251 | 0.53 |
| 1993 | 6.15699 | 16.00491 | 72 | 249 | 0.35 |
| 1994 | 6.92645 | 15.72226 | 61 | 248 | 0.44 |
| 1995 | 5.98945 | 15.32238 | 59 | 252 | -0.16 |
| 1996 | 7.15283 | 15.42074 | 52 | 254 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 6.61353 | 15.63647 | 79 | 246 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | 6.29922 | 16.02091 | 56 | 260 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 5.68009 | 15.55755 | 89 | 255 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 5.9442 | 15.44482 | 63 | 255 | -0.07 |
| 2001 | 6.56774 | 15.66664 | 63 | 262 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 5.62456 | 15.57345 | 68 | 256 | -0.2 |
| 2003 | 5.97198 | 15.58678 | 80 | 260 | -0.17 |
| 2004 | 5.77608 | 15.25548 | 70 | 263 | -0.33 |
| 2005 | 5.31832 | 14.94615 | 71 | 265 | -0.66 |
| 2006 | 5.74877 | 14.73298 | 70 | 257 | -0.79 |
| 2007 | 4.1607 | 14.78963 | 69 | 257 | -1.09 |
| 2008 | 4.55469 | 15.30522 | 58 | 262 | -0.59 |
| 2009 | 5.05488 | 15.16275 | 61 | 255 | -0.63 |
| 2010 | 4.59918 | 15.28449 | 90 | 262 | -0.86 |
| 2011 | 4.33028 | 14.67084 | 66 | 251 | -1.08 |
| 2012 | 3.36973 | 15.25102 | 64 | 260 | -1.17 |
| 2013 | 5.07939 | 15.16969 | 73 | 252 | -0.64 |
The Year End Graph.
The bunch of clowns on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy had to have known the ice was highest it has ever been. And the BBC propaganda arm still claims the voyage was to study “melting ice”.
Way back on October 16 2013 the Antarctic supply ship Aurora Australis set sail for summer season and they were interviewed:
“Voyage leader Tony Foy has told Radio National the weather forecast was not good for the start of the journey and there was a lot of ice to get through.
“We’re expecting thick sea ice on the way, but as I told the expeditioners yesterday they’ll get the full Southern Ocean experience which I’m sure they’ll all want,” he said.
“Microwave data we got last week shows the ice concentration this year is as high as it’s been since we started taking readings back in the late 70s.
“I think we can expect it to be pretty slow when we hit the ice edge.”
BBC January 2 2014:
“Despite being trapped, the scientists continued their experiments, measuring temperature and salinity through cracks in the surrounding ice.
One of the aims was to track how quickly the Antarctic’s sea ice was disappearing.”
(h/t EUreferendum)
2013 was an average year for Global Sea Ice Extent (thanks to it being a banner year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent)
The average daily anomaly was 200,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That would be 15th highest since 1979.
Max Extent of 27.4959 million sq km For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 306 November 2
Max Anomaly For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 353 December 19 = 0.9459423 million sq km
Max Anomaly % For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 73 March 14 = 4.72%
There were zero daily records set and no 2nd places.
Here are the key stats for each year. Min/Max/Anomaly in millions sq km.
| Year | Min | Max | day of Max | day of Min | Avg Anomaly |
| 1979 | 19.09222 | 27.48859 | 176 | 38 | 0.79 |
| 1980 | 18.5996 | 28.11968 | 289 | 57 | 0.37 |
| 1981 | 18.18091 | 27.48105 | 291 | 45 | 0.35 |
| 1982 | 18.76482 | 27.83626 | 306 | 42 | 0.85 |
| 1983 | 18.84029 | 27.89772 | 307 | 47 | 0.5 |
| 1984 | 17.71544 | 27.18759 | 316 | 40 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 17.92867 | 27.61347 | 306 | 50 | 0.37 |
| 1986 | 18.80319 | 27.00445 | 317 | 45 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 18.98408 | 27.15319 | 317 | 46 | 0.46 |
| 1988 | 18.15105 | 27.88244 | 319 | 45 | 0.46 |
| 1989 | 18.00758 | 27.50341 | 299 | 48 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 18.3706 | 27.36396 | 294 | 45 | -0.12 |
| 1991 | 17.96976 | 27.05178 | 309 | 63 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 17.95822 | 27.58992 | 322 | 60 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 17.84281 | 27.99757 | 310 | 57 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 18.57179 | 27.97479 | 309 | 43 | 0.56 |
| 1995 | 18.49688 | 27.11473 | 306 | 45 | -0.01 |
| 1996 | 17.79264 | 27.46173 | 293 | 57 | 0.39 |
| 1997 | 17.65372 | 27.04273 | 310 | 57 | -0.17 |
| 1998 | 18.47935 | 27.58827 | 297 | 47 | 0.27 |
| 1999 | 17.94246 | 27.58386 | 306 | 62 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 17.5882 | 26.93691 | 302 | 49 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 18.52515 | 26.75864 | 319 | 38 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 18.08847 | 26.81604 | 297 | 55 | -0.64 |
| 2003 | 18.72494 | 27.09882 | 306 | 43 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 18.31746 | 27.09686 | 316 | 51 | -0.01 |
| 2005 | 17.07721 | 27.37923 | 308 | 38 | -0.62 |
| 2006 | 16.7209 | 27.09882 | 298 | 30 | -0.99 |
| 2007 | 17.21196 | 26.24784 | 308 | 47 | -1.05 |
| 2008 | 18.43071 | 27.30686 | 310 | 46 | 0 |
| 2009 | 17.43751 | 26.17157 | 303 | 53 | -0.24 |
| 2010 | 17.39862 | 26.71555 | 313 | 42 | -0.4 |
| 2011 | 16.74368 | 26.17913 | 307 | 42 | -1.24 |
| 2012 | 17.82476 | 25.90133 | 313 | 51 | -0.81 |
| 2013 | 18.21356 | 27.4959 | 306 | 37 | 0.2 |
The Year End Graph.
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