Navy Forecasting Little Ice Extent Loss Next Week

 

They show ice extent expanding towards Siberia, and shrinking a little in the Chukchi Sea.

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16 Responses to Navy Forecasting Little Ice Extent Loss Next Week

  1. mitch says:

    Why don’t you compare this to a decade ago–Trying to hide something?

  2. Tony Duncan says:

    Steve,
    Still time to support your own facts and make some money. Surely at 6 million you will have those warmist dupes jumping all over a bet

  3. J Calvert N says:

    I certainly hope the US Navy are right. That will be (more) good news. I wonder what P.I.O.M.AS$ are predicting?

  4. Scott says:

    If this forecast pans out, we could see something like 20 days of JAXA daily extent losses being lower than the average for 2002-2010…that’s absurd. Even assuming an daily average melt that was 20% lower than the database average, I’d expect at least a couple days in that span to be higher than average melt just due to “noise” in the signal. The avoidance of any high-loss values like that would be impressive…most impressive.

    For those who didn’t see my earlier comment, JAXA is now at 13 days of below-average losses (immediately following 12 days of above-average losses). During that time, loss is 37.4% lower than average. If it can maintain that level of performance vs the average for another 10 days, we’ll be right at 2010’s level and just below 2008 & 2009. Honestly, I don’t think the odds of that are super high, but it’d be impressive if it happens. Three weeks with not a single day above the average would be incredible. I should write a script to see what the longest run is for a single span with below average losses…

    Oh, and during this recent stretch area has only fared so-so. But as I’ve stated before, the area values can be quite noisy. Right after the focus on area by some here (when the area tanked for a few days), CT showed an area GAIN for two days, followed by a small loss and then an above-average loss. Sorry…don’t think that was the actual performance (something like a steady avg or below-avg loss is more realistic), so it’s why I use both extent and area (and no, not their ratio) when making evaluations.

    -Scott

    • Scott says:

      As an update, make that 14 days with below average loss for JAXA daily…assuming the preliminary number doesn’t change much anyway (which it shouldn’t change enough, as it’s 40% lower than the average).

      Also, make above calculations had an error in them. If the relative performance (37.6% below average loss) of the last 14 days is kept for the next 9 days, we’ll still be below 2008-2010, although obviously much closer. We’d actually have to keep this performance for another 17 days to catch 2008/2010 (passing them both on Aug 17). What’s really needed is a day or two of near-zero loss, as that’s a way to make up a deficit in a hurry.

      -Scott

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