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Facts About the Arctic in July 2026

At the beginning of July the JAXA/ViSHOP web site is undergoing maintenance yet again! Here here is how their 2 day average extent graph looked for July 1st:

Image: binntho on the Arctic Sea Ice Forum

Extent is currently second lowest for the date, above 2025 by a whisker.

Looking next at temperature anomalies across the Arctic, the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas are slightly cooler than the 1979-2000 climatology. However, the East Siberian Sea and particularly the Canadian Arctic Archipelago are well above what used to be considered “normal”:

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Facts About the Arctic in October 2020

Let’s start this somewhat belated article by looking at Arctic sea ice volume. The mid month PIOMAS gridded thickness numbers have been released to reveal these volume graphs:

Minimum volume for 2021 was 4.03 thousand km3 on September 17th, 2nd lowest in the PSC record.

Modelled volume is now in a “statistical tie” with 2012 for lowest on record for mid October. Here too is the PIOMAS thickness map:

Meanwhile for comparison purposes here is the first merged Cryosat-2/SMOS thickness map of the 2020/21 freezing season, hot off the presses at the Alfred Wegener Institute:

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