{"id":1295,"date":"2024-02-02T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-february-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:21:09","slug":"facts-about-the-arctic-in-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-february-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Facts About the Arctic in February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A change is perhaps even better than a rest? Let\u2019s start February with a reminder that following close behind another recent Arctic cyclone, <a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/2024\/01\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-january-2024\/#Jan-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Storm Ingunn<\/a> caused red weather warnings for high winds and avalanches in Norway two days ago:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/StormIngunnNorway.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27707\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/StormIngunnNorway-1024x729-1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/StormIngunnNorway-1024x729-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/StormIngunnNorway-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/StormIngunnNorway-768x547.png 768w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/StormIngunnNorway.png 1503w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>By yesterday evening another long period, storm driven swell was arriving at the sea ice edge in the Fram Strait, and to a lesser extent in the Barents Sea:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mean_period_20240201.t21z.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27719\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mean_period_20240201.t21z.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mean_period_20240201.t21z.png 880w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mean_period_20240201.t21z-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mean_period_20240201.t21z-768x503.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Significant_height_20240201.t21z.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27720\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Significant_height_20240201.t21z.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Significant_height_20240201.t21z.png 880w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Significant_height_20240201.t21z-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Significant_height_20240201.t21z-768x503.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>By this morning Ingunn had merged with the remnants of the prior cyclone, as revealed in <a href=\"https:\/\/climatereanalyzer.org\/wx\/fcst\/?mdl_id=gfs&amp;dm_id=arc-lea&amp;wm_id=snowd-mslp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate Reanalyzer\u2019s visualisation<\/a> of the latest GFS model run::<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CCI-Arctic-MSLP-Snow-2024-02-02-06Z.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27722\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CCI-Arctic-MSLP-Snow-2024-02-02-06Z.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CCI-Arctic-MSLP-Snow-2024-02-02-06Z.png 850w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CCI-Arctic-MSLP-Snow-2024-02-02-06Z-278x300.png 278w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/CCI-Arctic-MSLP-Snow-2024-02-02-06Z-768x829.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"918\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Here is the latest AMSR2 update on recent sea ice motion on the Atlantic periphery of the Arctic Ocean:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/atlantic-2024-1280.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27721\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/atlantic-2024-1280-1024x576-1.gif\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/atlantic-2024-1280-1024x576-1.gif 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/atlantic-2024-1280-300x169.gif 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/atlantic-2024-1280-768x432.gif 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Watch this space!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A change is perhaps even better than a 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