{"id":2950,"date":"2025-05-03T00:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-may-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:36:36","slug":"facts-about-the-arctic-in-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About the Arctic in May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JAXA\/ViSHOP extent<\/a> is no longer \u201clowest for the date\u201d! After \u201cflatlining\u201d for most of April the metric is now in the midst of a close knit group of the other years in the 2020s:<\/p>\n

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The high pressure area over the Central Arctic persisted through the second half of April, and so did the consequent drift of ice from the Pacific side of the Arctic to the Atlantic periphery:<\/p>\n

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AWI\u2019s sea ice area<\/a> for the Greenland Sea is currently \u201chighest for the date\u201d in the AMSR2 record that started in July 2012:<\/p>\n

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The offshore winds along the Laptev Sea coast have continued, and sea ice area is now \u201clowest for the date\u201d:<\/p>\n

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The first signs of a break in the high pressure dominance are appearing. GFS currently forecasts<\/a> that a low pressure area will enter the Central Arctic, bring above zero temperatures over the Kara Sea on Sunday:<\/p>\n

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Much further into the future (and hence much less likely to verify!), GFS is forecasting temperatures above zero at the North Pole in a week\u2019s time:<\/p>\n

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Watch this space!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JAXA\/ViSHOP extent is no longer \u201clowest for the date\u201d! After \u201cflatlining\u201d for most of April the metric is now in the midst of a close knit group of the other years in the 2020s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}