Happy New Year 2024 (and sorry for the forum being offline some hours) /DM
3 triple century breaks (2007-07-01, 2009-07-01, 2013-07-01) and one quadruple (400.48 on 2005-07-21).
Today is a slightly interesting anniversary of sorts: yesterday's reading of 13,110,194 km2 marks the 100th consecutive day that JAXA extent has started with the number 13. That is, since the number climbed out of the 12s on January 15, it has stayed between 13,000,000 and 13,999,999 (with an average of 13,599,071, a median of 13,659,812, and a standard deviation of 228,485).How's that for a plateau?I haven't looked back to see how unusual it is for any of the ice metrics to stay in such a relatively narrow range for such an extended period, though I suspect such a thing probably falls into the "unusual but not rare" category.
Quote from: plg on April 25, 2015, 09:55:35 AM3 triple century breaks (2007-07-01, 2009-07-01, 2013-07-01) and one quadruple (400.48 on 2005-07-21).I think those three triple century breaks, all on July 1, are an artifact. I seem to remember something about a change to the method of dealing with melt ponds that is applied on that date. Dunno about the quadruple century though.
100 and OUT!! Sounds like a score worthy of a cricketer.
Some things of interest:1) how many double century breaks have there been in a row in April by history?...//LMV
468k in 4 days in 2004 makes 304k in last 3 days look paltry
Yes. Sorry for this, but after a comment I had yesterday only a 2M km² drop within a few days would be interesting to some...
The comment I referred to wasn't from here, but from a denier. That does make me yawn...
Agreed. But maybe 2M km²? I'm still trying to figure out how to make them understand. We have had a few cooler days here in Scandinavia (cooler=normal for the season) and that's "proof" for global cooling.