This isn’t exactly “shock news”, since we (slightly hesitantly!) predicted this 5 days ago.
A GFS 2 meter temperature chart revealing greater than zero degrees Celsius at the North Pole later today:
The 2 meter temperature anomaly at the Pole is almost off the charts:
Plus the cause of these unusual numbers, a cyclone with central pressure of 959 hPa spinning north of Ellesmere Island at 18:00 UTC this evening:
All of which has led to the JAXA/Vishop Arctic sea ice extent being the lowest for the date since 1979 at least by a significant margin:
There will be much more to say on this shocking news in due course, but for the moment…
To be continued…
I don’t really know if it’s an error but it looks like this storm managed to create some open water areas in NE Greenland. Also this “gyre” in the subpolar Atlantic will generate more problems until Sunday at least, looking in the troposphere at 500 hPa i can see a really interesting pattern, namely a butterfly block between an anticyclone in the Pacific and one in the Kara Sea, according to my archive something like that also happened in 1985. In the end, these cyclones aren’t good news for the Atlantic flank.
Hi Ion,
Thanks for your input. You make some pertinent comments!
Are you by any chance a “professional” in these matters?
Hopefully I’ll have the time to add some more pertinent info of my own soon, but currently I’m also (madly?) busy on (anti!)social media.
Big waves in the Arctic demand the skills of professional big wave surfers!
Jim
I’ll be modest here, i’m not an expert, just an observer. I use my knowledge of meteorology to analyze perhaps one of the most obvious sign of GW, the decline of Arctic sea ice, it’s a tragedy, i must say but i think we need to look more onto it.