On 18/06/2019 20:55, wrote:
On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 8:15:01 AM UTC+1, N_Cook wrote:
On 17/06/2019 21:35, wrote:
Arctic ice extent is now more than at the same time in the record year of 2012.
Who'd have thought it given the melt rate of recent months.

Still I suppose it is not so surprising considering the stationary cold trough of recent weeks. Be intersting to see the effect on our summer. And the eventual minimum come September. Any predictions?
Lower, higher or the same as 2012?

Len
Wembury


What is causing the very strong positive SST anomaly in the Bering Sea
,between Russia and Alaska, in the last week of NOAA SST output plots?

I have looked at the NH anomaly chart for May and it seems that there was a negative anomaly over the Bering Sea.

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/produc...cs/fige9.shtml

This would mean cylonic conditions and stronger than normal westerlies.
Could this have strengthened the northward moving Alaskan current giving the positive temperature anomaly?

Len
Wembury


Recently , just north of the Bering Strait, at 850HPa has seen about
+12 deg C temp anomaly.