Temperatures Over The Arctic Ocean Continue To Plummet – Two Weeks Ahead Of Normal

14 Responses to Temperatures Over The Arctic Ocean Continue To Plummet – Two Weeks Ahead Of Normal

1. Harold Ambler says:

   August 13, 2013 at 8:18 pm

   These are air temperatures.

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   • Latitude says:

     August 13, 2013 at 8:22 pm

     http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/ophi/color_sst_NPS_ophi0.png

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2. Latitude says:

   August 13, 2013 at 8:18 pm

   air temps are way below freezing……SST’s are also below freezing…
   If that sight breeze right now opens up more ice….exposing more water to air

   …..area and extent are going to take a major jump up!

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3. Lawrence13 says:

   August 13, 2013 at 8:35 pm

   Blimey looking at that its as if the planet as lurched several weeks ahead of schedule. It’s going to be interesting to see when the temps finally recover to something more like we’re used to seeing. Okay it’s pretty close in some areas to previous charts but for length of consistently low temps its quite something

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4. Adam Gallon says:

   August 13, 2013 at 8:51 pm

   I wonder what colour GISS will make the Arctic this year?

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   • miked1947 says:

     August 14, 2013 at 4:10 am

     Pink has already been used they need to find a Hotter color for their product! It is a shame they are running out of colors to express all the warming they are causing.
     The A in AGW is Climatologists!

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5. kim2ooo says:

   August 13, 2013 at 9:07 pm

   Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.

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6. Harold Ambler says:

   August 13, 2013 at 9:10 pm

   Thanks for clarifying title. Air temps still not quite to freezing point of seawater, and this is only within small zone near pole after all. Nonetheless, a summer only rivaled by 2004 in recent memory in the highest regions of the Arctic.

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   • Latitude says:

     August 13, 2013 at 10:16 pm

     Harold, but they are below freezing for fresh water…and that’s what ice cubes are

     http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/images/fnl/sfctmp_01.fnl.gif

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   • Jimbo says:

     August 13, 2013 at 11:25 pm

     Harold,
     coldest since 1958, coldest on the DMI record north of the 80th northern parallel. The rate of sea ice extent decline slowed recently. A big storm could suddenly reduce it though.

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   • Caleb says:

     August 14, 2013 at 1:32 am

     Harold, check out the temperatures at the infamous “North Pole Camera,” situated in the heart of the current cold. Sea-water has been freezing there for over a day, and froze a lot during prior days as well. http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/PAWS819920_atmos_recent.html

     I’ve been watching the view through the North Pole Camera for years, and have never seen it look so cold at this point in the “melt season.” To see how it looked a year ago, check out the Aug 5 update on this old post of mine: http://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/lake-north-pole-vanishes/

     That slushy-looking view is far more typical for the month of August. This year’s view is (dare I use the word) “unprecedented.”

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7. Ben says:

   August 14, 2013 at 6:15 pm

   RE: Obama OFA re-meme – “The current arctic summer is the coldest, it’s caused largely by natural variation, and it poses significant risks for our ice-free meme. Some members of NSIDC,GISS,NOAA,NASA disagree with this simple, scientifically proven fact.”

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8. Freak Out says:

   August 14, 2013 at 9:15 pm

   Oh no the temperature has fluctuated by a degree or two! Everyone panic like a bunch of cavemen….
   Or maybe just buy a coat?
   In 300 years the planet may increase temperature by half a degree and new farmlands may be open or maybe it will get colder. The great news we will all be dead by then and maybe some intelligent people will live on the planet that spend their money on things besides war and freaking out over unimportant information.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     August 14, 2013 at 9:18 pm

     It doesn’t work like that. Arctic temperatures are buffered by the latent heat of melting ice. The one degree difference is an indication of huge deficiency in heat.

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