NSIDC Total Area as at 19 July 2019 (5 day trailing average) 4,885,824 km2 Area loss remaining a bit below average.
Total Area 4,885,824 km2 -553,535 km2 < 2010's average. -622,906 km2 < 2018 -1,308,286 km2 < 2000's average. Total Area Change -82 k loss Peripheral Seas -17 k loss Central Seas__ -54 k loss Other Seas___ -11 k loss Peripheral Seas Bering _______ -0 k loss Baffin Bay____ -4 k loss Greenland____ -10 k loss Barents ______ -3 k loss CAB Seas Beaufort_____ -7 k loss CAA_________ -7 k loss East Siberian__ -16 k loss Central Arctic_ -9 k loss Kara_________ -11 k loss Laptev_______ 1 k gain Chukchi______ -5 k loss Other Seas Okhotsk______ -0 k loss St Lawrence___ -0 k loss Hudson Bay___ -11 k loss
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- Area loss 82 k, 12 k LESS than the 2010's average loss of 94 k on this day.
- Total area
Lowest, 304 k LESS than 2016, and 6 k LESS than 2012.
Area loss remains below average, difference with 2012 narrowing, with 2016 widening.
Other StuffWeather Due to unforeseen circumstances....
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Weather
by
Ambrose Bierce
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be--
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldome paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote--
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
'Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow.'
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What all this means for melt is.... ?
OulookWe are in the period of maximum daily area loss that lasts until late July, but is already gently sliding down. Overall, Area losses in July to date above average, but currently trending downwards.
It definitely was a steep downward slope that has now eased.
NSIDC 5 day Area could/would/should/will/will-not continue in pole position for about one week/two weeks/the rest of July/the entire remaining melt season (delete as applicable).
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