Arctic winter 2022 sea ice only 10th-lowest on the 43-year satellite record
Posted: March 24, 2022 by oldbrew in climate, Natural Variation, satellites, sea ice
Not an indicator of supposedly dire global warming this season then? Groans from climate obsessives perhaps. Nothingburgers all round.
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Arctic sea ice appeared to have hit its annual maximum extent on Feb. 25 after growing through the fall and winter, says NASA (via Phys.org).
This year’s wintertime extent is the 10th-lowest in the satellite record maintained by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, one of NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers.
Arctic sea ice extent peaked at 5.75 million square miles (14.88 million square kilometers) and is roughly 297,300 square miles (770,000 square kilometers) below the 1981-2010 average maximum—equivalent to missing an area of ice slightly larger than Texas and Maine combined.
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/arctic-winter-2022-sea-ice-only-10th-lowest-on-the-43-year-satellite-record/
