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(21,088 posts)Here's what happened over the last 5 days:
Now we wait for a couple more days and see what emerges from the Big Polar Blow.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)It's Polar Storm John Galt.
(I think next year's might just have that same name too.)
happyslug
(14,779 posts)I try to look for the Silver lining in every cloud.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)nt
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)When it says 'concentration' is that solid thick ice, solid thin ice, or a slushy mix?
phantom power
(25,966 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...yikes...
hatrack
(59,584 posts)nt
pscot
(21,024 posts)I sucks to be us.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)That's, what, 83 or 84 north?
If that's turning to mush, I'd be inclined to write off that whole complex of three big spurs between it and eastern Arctic Siberia before the seasonal turn.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)I guess this late in the season losing it all is unlikely. But still. Halfsies!
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)I think the demise of that ice is going to be the grand finale.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)I'd give the remaining little ice fragments in the E. Siberian Sea until Saturday - maybe Sunday at the outside.
Interesting times.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)That little white dot is the North Pole.
Interesting.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)A real possibility very soon now.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)Much faster than I'd expected, and I wasn't exactly Otto the Optimist.
hunter
(38,311 posts)Welcome to the 21st century. Things are different here.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)hatrack
(59,584 posts)Not a huge shift (yet) but within at most one degree of the North Pole.