Less cloud today. worldview,viirs,bt15n, northFJL, jan7-8.
ascat, day325-007. (3.6MB)
Hopefully ice on the Pacific side will be less mobile now the Bering Strait is plugged. The Beaufort arc of older ice bifurcated at the Chukchi while there was open water. The atlantic ice front made it to Svalbard only to be pushed back, possibly temporarily. Fast moving, quite fragile ice in the Greenland Sea due for another pounding tomorrow and
957 949hPa cyclone gfs forecast for thursday before thicker ice from the CAA makes its way across in the next few days (see Tealight
https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,2268.msg185799.html#msg185799).
windy ecmwf forecast for jan10
hmmm. 11m waves, >90km/h wind forecast along the Greenland sea ice front on friday. Like Meddoc (sort of) says, maybe a large short term extent gain coming.