Arctic Watch

Facts About the Arctic

Month: March 2023

Climate

The Primacy of Doubt

Recently Judith Curry published a series of articles on the topic of blackouts. Since attempting to prevent such things is my “professional” speciality I’ve spent a bit of time over at “Climate Etc.” recently. Hence I couldn’t help but notice…

Rewriting The Arctic

Peter, a welcome new denizen here at the Great White Con Ivory Towers, appears to have parachuted into our far north summer hideaway on the shores of Santa’s Secret Summer Swimming Pool straight from Tony Heller‘s Unreal Climate Science blog….

Facts About the Arctic in October 2022

The 2022/23 freezing season has begun, so to begin with here are Arctic sea ice area and extent during its early stages.

Transition time

Throughout February, Arctic sea ice extent tracked between second and fourth lowest in the satellite record while Antarctic sea ice extent tracked at record low extents.

Antarctic sea ice settles on record low extent, again

On February 21, Antarctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 1.79 million square kilometers (691,000 square miles).

Antarctic sea ice extent sets a new record low

Antarctic sea ice extent appears to have broken the record low set last year.

Analysis

Arctic sea ice low, Antarctic lower

Arctic sea ice extent rose at a slower than average rate through January, and continued to be below the lower interdecile range.

December lows

Daily extent of Arctic sea ice for December 2022 remained well below average for the entire month.

Lingering open water areas

November’s rate of sea ice growth in the Arctic was near average.