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Looks normal enough. What was that desperate climate emergency again?
Drift ice in Okhotsk Sea at sunrise.
Previous posts showed 2022 Arctic Ice broke the 15M km2 ceiling in February, staying above that level the first week of March, then followed by typical melting in March. As the chart below shows, mid March the overall ice extent was ~400k km2 below the 16 year average, before returning to the mean day 89 and tracking the average since then.
Note the much higher ice extents in 2022 compared to 2021 or 2007. The green lines show that the above normal ice this year is despite low extents in Sea of Okhotsk. The averages in dark green (excluding Okhotsk) are below 2022 in light green (excluding Okhotsk) by nearly 200k km2. IOW everywhere in the Arctic except Okhotsk ice extents are well above average. Remember also that Okhotsk basin is outside the Arctic circle, has no Polar bears, and is among the…
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It’s only news if it’s below average, then climate miserablists can have another moan about humanity.
With the AMO tailing off and warm inflow from the AMOC doing likewise, Arctic ice isn’t going anywhere.