Svalbard has been on average 15C warmer than normal for the past 30 days

[muriel_volestrangler]

Perhaps the most spectacular example has been on Svalbard in the last 30 days (besides the fact that Svalbard is circumnavigable in February!) where the average temperature was -1.0 °C, 15.0 °C above the normal. This is Europe's northernmost territory, just 10 degrees latitude from the Pole. According to NOAA all of the Arctic Circle could be heading towards this kind of anomaly as the century progresses.


See that black line towards the bottom? That's the 1961-1990 average

http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2014/02/decreasing-arctic-albedo-boosts-global-warming.html

That's almost as far north as the top of Greenland - about halfway from Barrow to the North Pole.

[GliderGuider]

1. Jesus Haploid Christ!

Now there's a signal and a half!

[hatrack]

2. Didn't you hear? We have other priorities now.

Scantily-clad women appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue!

Horrors!!!

[PasadenaTrudy]

6. Well...

we all need breaks from the atrocities of life or we would go nuts or worse. I'm not saying the SI threads are enlightening in any way though. I go out for walks for my escapism....or a nice cold Margarita

[CRH]

3. I don't even what to think of what PIOMAS will show, ...

in August - September of this year.

[madrchsod]

4. polar bears around Alaska have decided their future is on land

polar bears are now going on land for food.

the future is going to be interesting for the polar and brown bears.

[Demeter]

5. That's because the Midwest has been the same amount colder than normal.

Like a hat on a tipsy head, the weather has slipped over one eye....