{"id":3893,"date":"2026-06-05T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-june-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:07:08","slug":"facts-about-the-arctic-in-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-june-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About the Arctic in June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0JAXA\/ViSHOP web site<\/a>\u00a0is currently undergoing maintenance, but here is how their 2 day average extent graph looked for June 2nd:<\/p>\n

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Extent was 3rd lowest in the JAXA record, behind 2016 and 2019.<\/p>\n

The Alfred Wegener Institute\u2019s sea ice concentration data<\/a> shows that the Bering Sea is now largely free of sea ice, and the areas of open water in the Beaufort, Chukchi, East Siberian and Laptev Seas continue to expand:<\/p>\n

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The sea ice concentration map also shows open water in much of Lancaster Sound. Also apparent is the widespread presence of melt ponds along the southern part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Here\u2019s a closer, albeit somewhat cloudy, look:<\/p>\n

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\u201cFalse colour\u201d image of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago on\u00a0<\/em>June 3rd<\/a>\u00a0from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Water is now flowing onto the fast ice covering the Laptev Sea off the delta of the River Lena: <\/p>\n

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\u201cFalse colour\u201d image of the Lena Delta on\u00a0<\/em>June 4th<\/a>\u00a0from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Melt ponds are also starting to form on the fast ice further south.<\/p>\n

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

The\u00a0JAXA\/ViSHOP web site\u00a0is currently undergoing maintenance, but here is how their 2 day average extent graph looked for June 2nd: Extent was 3rd lowest in the JAXA record, behind 2016 and 2019. The Alfred Wegener Institute\u2019s sea ice concentration data…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3894,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","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=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}