Normally (as you can see from the graph below) at this time of year Antarctic Sea Ice is high one or two years and then drops as much as 1.3 million sq km to a low (even a new) low and then repeats.
From 2012 the big drop in the sawtooth pattern stopped. From 2012 every value is above every value before 2012 (with a little license for the tiny dip from 2012 to 2013).
Every once in a while I visit the data for the weather station closest to my hometown on the west coast of Canada.
Today I am looking at daily data (using KNMI) from Departure Bay (1913 – 1992) and Nanaimo Airport (1947 – 2014).
I’ve summarized the data by monthly mean.
The data does overlap. The first graph is just Tmax. The second graph is Tmax anomaly from the overlap period of 1948 to 1992
sunshine hours 