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I see that current sea ice at both poles are at record lows
https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
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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.
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and now reports of east Antartica was 40c above average for the time of year over 3 days
crazy
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Awhituobs wrote: Mon 21/03/2022 14:40 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.
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This is quite a good site for tracking sea ice cover:

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