Sea ice

[Awhituobs]

I see that current sea ice at both poles are at record lows
https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

[Simon Culling]

Thanks for starting this thread, Brian. When I first looked at this, I thought that this was not the case for the Arctic, but there has been a bit of a melt since the attached graph (for 7th March) was published. The current level is now very close to the purple line - so very close to a record low for this time of the year up North.

Graph courtesy of the NSIDC.

[Awhituobs]

and now reports of east Antartica was 40c above average for the time of year over 3 days
crazy

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

and now reports of east Antartica was 40c above average for the time of year over 3 days
crazy

Somewhere down there had a heatwave. Got up to minus 11 which is a record maximum for Antarctica.

[harleyb]

This is quite a good site for tracking sea ice cover:

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/char ... ice-graph/