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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #50 on: September 21, 2020, 03:45:51 PM »
Yeah.
Also the cyclonic circulation on Greenland is pulling Atlantic storms up all the way to the Arctic. Not sure what to make of this but it looks warmer than predicted last week, where a cold polar vortex seemed to emerge.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #51 on: September 21, 2020, 03:50:03 PM »
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #52 on: September 21, 2020, 06:52:59 PM »
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Wow, is it just me, or does it seem like Fram export's about to go into overdrive? Perhaps all this sloshing around on the Atlantic front will slow refreeze over at least the next week?
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #53 on: September 22, 2020, 02:13:25 AM »
Wow.. Just how long is the Atlantic/Laptev refreeze going to take.. Large amounts of open water even by late November? Surely heading that way as there's been no cold air there whatsoever.

Yet the Beaufort has been cold and new ice has formed and we could see a fast refreeze here, the ice shape could be one of the strangest we have seen, at this rate the Bering Stright is more likely to freeze than the Laptev sea!

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #54 on: September 22, 2020, 05:45:44 AM »
September 17-21.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #55 on: September 22, 2020, 05:59:03 AM »
September 17-21.
Very interesting to see the "scorpion's tail" fade in Beaufort.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #56 on: September 22, 2020, 07:01:37 AM »
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #57 on: September 22, 2020, 10:29:36 AM »
According to climatereanalyzer, there's a 973 HPa low north of Novaya Zemlya.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #58 on: September 22, 2020, 11:57:26 AM »
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #59 on: September 22, 2020, 01:39:44 PM »
 .. 'Today's images and animation' .. it looks like the 'meezing seazon' .. half melting , half freezing ..

 .. 'According to climatereanalyzer, there's a 973 HPa low north of Novaya Zemlya.' .. a little of hurricane Sally made it .. gfs's anticipation of this event was extremely good .. b.c.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #60 on: September 22, 2020, 01:42:17 PM »
According to climatereanalyzer, there's a 973 HPa low north of Novaya Zemlya.
You mean this one.....
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #61 on: September 22, 2020, 01:56:53 PM »
Considering the current SST situation, I expect there to be an unusually long lasting polynya in the ice in the ESS until a record late date, perhaps mid-November or so.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #62 on: September 22, 2020, 02:25:24 PM »
A little unusual thing is happening. Hurricane Teddy is heading towards Canada and according to forecast it will reach Greenland as Tropical/Subtropical storm. It is too soon to tell if it will affect Arctic in some way but worth to mention it.


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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #63 on: September 22, 2020, 02:31:40 PM »
.. 'Today's images and animation' .. it looks like the 'meezing seazon' .. half melting , half freezing ..

 .. 'According to climatereanalyzer, there's a 973 HPa low north of Novaya Zemlya.' .. a little of hurricane Sally made it .. gfs's anticipation of this event was extremely good .. b.c.
Current hurricane Teddy expected to hit S Greenland in a few days with tropical storm strength winds.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #64 on: September 22, 2020, 03:11:08 PM »
They actually aren't expecting a Greenlandic "Tropical/Subtropical storm" but are expecting a "powerful post-tropical cyclone" to approach Greenland's southern coast.

I find it curious the Hurricane Center shows projected storm strength through 5 days (typically) even when they expect the storm to lose 'tropical/subtropical' characteristics before the end of the forecast period.

Meanwhile, OT, Paulette, which hammered Bermuda a week ago, lost its tropical/subtropical characteristics when it dove into cooler waters, but, having turned south, regained them, so shows up on NOAA's Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook chart as Paulette (again).  I remember years ago some major hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast, lost its tropical characteristics overland (so stopped showing up on NOAA's chart), went out to sea over the mid-Atlantic states, turned south over the Atlantic and, having regained tropical characteristics, headed west a second time and crossed the Florida Peninsula as a named depression.  (Fortunately, it never regained storm  forced winds, but it would have been 'one for the history books'.)
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #65 on: September 22, 2020, 03:30:35 PM »
Wow.. Just how long is the Atlantic/Laptev refreeze going to take.. Large amounts of open water even by late November? Surely heading that way as there's been no cold air there whatsoever.

Yet the Beaufort has been cold and new ice has formed and we could see a fast refreeze here, the ice shape could be one of the strangest we have seen, at this rate the Bering Stright is more likely to freeze than the Laptev sea!

1. They are both very likely to freeze, for somebody that has never seen a freezing season before just to know. But I know what you meant. Which sea will freeze earlier.

2. There is almost no chance whatsoever, that Laptev won't freeze before there is any significant amount of ice in the Bering Sea, and Strait covered in ice. Laptev could be (very) late, depends on many  factors, (precondition, SST, LP/HP, wind, surface temperature  etc.) , but it certainly  won't be that late

The point is good, but to say it is more likely, is a bit of exaggeration.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #66 on: September 22, 2020, 03:58:24 PM »
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #67 on: September 22, 2020, 04:34:49 PM »
Considering the current SST situation, I expect there to be an unusually long lasting polynya in the ice in the ESS until a record late date, perhaps mid-November or so.
Not so much polynya as just simply the seas not refreezing.

With so much insolation taken up this summer, combined with influxes of advected heat through intrusion of warmer southerly water on both sides of the Arctic, along with continued massive plumes of sensible and latent atmospheric heat (warm air, high moisture content), I'm expecting a refreeze along the lines of 2016/17, and a possible new low maximum.

Over the coming weeks, Siberia and eastern Europe will chill dramatically while the Arctic seas will remain quite warm.  There will be coastal freezing, but I expect the present heat and incoming storms through the fall will keep the ice at bay for a very long time, particularly in the Barents and Laptev.

On the Pacific side, I'm anticipating a late refreeze of the Chukchi, Okhotsk and Bering for much the same reasons, continuing and building on the trend we've seen the last few years in those regions.

I suspect the Beaufort, coastal Laptev and much of the ESS will freeze up fairly fast, again starting at existing ice edges or the coast, and leaving a warm gap between for some time.

The Kara I think is a wild card.  While it is shallow and close to the "cold continent", I think we're going to see a lot of flow into it from continuing tropical storms that will then sweep around counter-clockwise from it into the Arctic basin proper.  That may keep it open and the Atlantic side warmer for longer and generally reduce the desperately needed FDD's required for a strong refreeze and good volume production.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #68 on: September 22, 2020, 04:38:35 PM »
A little unusual thing is happening. Hurricane Teddy is heading towards Canada and according to forecast it will reach Greenland as Tropical/Subtropical storm. It is too soon to tell if it will affect Arctic in some way but worth to mention it.

That's a HUGE tropical storm force wind field.  That's going to drag a huge plume of moisture and heat along with it all the way to the high Arctic.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #69 on: September 22, 2020, 06:39:48 PM »
A little unusual thing is happening. Hurricane Teddy is heading towards Canada and according to forecast it will reach Greenland as Tropical/Subtropical storm. It is too soon to tell if it will affect Arctic in some way but worth to mention it.

That's a HUGE tropical storm force wind field.  That's going to drag a huge plume of moisture and heat along with it all the way to the high Arctic.
GFS shows it being split into two as it hits the southern tip of Greenland on Friday - less energy heading into the Arctic ?
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« Reply #70 on: September 23, 2020, 12:17:33 AM »
Yeah.
Also the cyclonic circulation on Greenland is pulling Atlantic storms up all the way to the Arctic. Not sure what to make of this but it looks warmer than predicted last week, where a cold polar vortex seemed to emerge.
Judah Cohen predicts in fact this turn to anomalous warmth that can disrupt the formation of a not yet established polar vorteX

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #71 on: September 23, 2020, 01:35:06 AM »
Tor, 1969 Hurricane Camille fits what you described above.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #72 on: September 23, 2020, 10:13:07 AM »
Today's images and animation. Beaufort Sea still hasn't figured out what it's doing.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #73 on: September 23, 2020, 10:26:14 AM »
'Tor, 1969 Hurricane Camille fits what you described above.'

.. more likely H. Ivan in 2004 ..I remember it only too well .. I had been disappointed with the impact 1st time around on the Gulf coast so I idly doodled a looping track that brought it back for a second go , then watched in disbelief as it happened ... b.c. .

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #74 on: September 23, 2020, 12:59:02 PM »
Wow.. Just how long is the Atlantic/Laptev refreeze going to take.. Large amounts of open water even by late November? Surely heading that way as there's been no cold air there whatsoever.

Yet the Beaufort has been cold and new ice has formed and we could see a fast refreeze here, the ice shape could be one of the strangest we have seen, at this rate the Bering Stright is more likely to freeze than the Laptev sea!

1. They are both very likely to freeze, for somebody that has never seen a freezing season before just to know. But I know what you meant. Which sea will freeze earlier.

2. There is almost no chance whatsoever, that Laptev won't freeze before there is any significant amount of ice in the Bering Sea, and Strait covered in ice. Laptev could be (very) late, depends on many  factors, (precondition, SST, LP/HP, wind, surface temperature  etc.) , but it certainly  won't be that late

The point is good, but to say it is more likely, is a bit of exaggeration.

Yes, it's an exageration i must point out, it's just the fact the Laptev once again is going to hace a slow refreeze like we saw in 2018 and 19 but this year could well be unprecedented how slow it could be. The Bering Stright has seen more cooler temperatures whilst the Laptev has barely had any cold so SSTS are way above normal. I think aslong weather patterns allow it, the Bering Stright might refreeze quicker this year but we shall see.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #75 on: September 23, 2020, 01:00:19 PM »
Interested in late season movement of ice in the CAA.

My Hycom link shows up to date concentration and  thickness, but ice drift is from 2019

https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycomcice1-12/arctic.html

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« Reply #76 on: September 23, 2020, 01:23:30 PM »
I look forward to seeing if this freezing season peaks in the lowest maximum in history.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #77 on: September 23, 2020, 03:46:46 PM »
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« Reply #78 on: September 23, 2020, 04:50:50 PM »
10 days of refreezing (Sep 13th to 22nd). Nearly 6mb, click to play
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #79 on: September 23, 2020, 11:15:28 PM »
I look forward to seeing if this freezing season peaks in the lowest maximum in history.

Surely it's much too early to say.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #80 on: September 24, 2020, 02:09:51 AM »
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I forgot I already did temp today...  :-[
I'll do moisture tomorrow...

That storm is turning out to be the worst case scenario for the North Greenland ice, with winds over 60 km/h...  :'(

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #81 on: September 24, 2020, 06:53:45 AM »
September 19-23.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #82 on: September 24, 2020, 08:55:16 AM »
Well. With Mosaic basically proving that the best piece of ice in the best position on the Atlantic side of the Lomonosov ridge LOST thickness on its entire transit from October to may, from 7m to 5m, through constant bottom melt, and never froze it's soggy core. And now that they can cruise at open water efficiency, from laptev to Fram north of 86 latitude, and never register any fresh freezable layer...
 There appears to be no such thing as a Arctic sea ice freezing season anymore in this half of the Arctic basin.
Therefore I suggest a poll to rename this forum the SiAlCa sea ice forum. Hopefully there will be a few years while those elements hydrated minerals can still stay cold enough to remain solid on those sectors polar seas. Unlike Venus.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #83 on: September 24, 2020, 10:41:37 AM »
Today's images and animation, with the transformation of the Beaufort tail into the Beaufort loop, once again.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #84 on: September 24, 2020, 12:50:51 PM »
From the looks of it, it appears the MYI in the Beaufort tail is still melting, moving around in southerly waters and with temps apparently not low enough. More of a graveyard than an ice preserve. This tail will not serve as the backbone of a resilient Beaufort next year.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #85 on: September 24, 2020, 02:48:17 PM »
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #86 on: September 24, 2020, 10:22:36 PM »
From the looks of it, it appears the MYI in the Beaufort tail is still melting, moving around in southerly waters and with temps apparently not low enough. More of a graveyard than an ice preserve. This tail will not serve as the backbone of a resilient Beaufort next year.

ESRL/PSL agrees. They suggest agressive bottom melting of 2cm per day through the forecast period. Further west around the dateline, there is a bit of bottom growth for a time, before more forecast southerlies put a stop to the growth.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #87 on: September 25, 2020, 09:26:00 AM »
Well. With Mosaic basically proving that the best piece of ice in the best position on the Atlantic side of the Lomonosov ridge LOST thickness on its entire transit from October to may, from 7m to 5m, through constant bottom melt, and never froze it's soggy core. And now that they can cruise at open water efficiency, from laptev to Fram north of 86 latitude, and never register any fresh freezable layer...
 There appears to be no such thing as a Arctic sea ice freezing season anymore in this half of the Arctic basin.
Therefore I suggest a poll to rename this forum the SiAlCa sea ice forum. Hopefully there will be a few years while those elements hydrated minerals can still stay cold enough to remain solid on those sectors polar seas. Unlike Venus.
Wry and somewhat twisted that this bad half joke may sound.

On the Atlantic side, it is looking like that the halocline has taken a serious hit. And the weather is totaly nuts on the russian islands. As of the 24th, the record of the most crazy anomaly is probably for Ostrov Golomnjannyj. The current mean temperature, 4.7°C, is 4° (!) above the old record of 2012, and even 2°C above the warmest month ever recorded, August 1932. Every day have broken their daily record, 15 days had a Tx above the old monthly record, and even one Tn was above the monthly record of Tx... And all of this with 71 mm of rain (and I mean, really rain, liquid water at 5°C), wich is more than three time the normal monthly precipitation amount. From Ostrov Heiss to Ostrov Kotel'Nyj, crossing Khatanga and Ostrov Vize, mean monthly temperature are going to be 2 to 4°C above previous record, and going to be more than 3 sigma above normal. Seing such and anomaly over such an area (we are speaking of something like more than 2 millions of km² or 0.5% of Earth surface) for a monthly mean is unprecedent.
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #88 on: September 25, 2020, 11:20:16 AM »
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #89 on: September 25, 2020, 12:03:56 PM »
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Thank you aslan for bringing these updates. The weather behavior in that region is almost a statistical impossibility. The pattern is stuck.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #90 on: September 25, 2020, 03:37:51 PM »
Thanks Aslan for the weather data which explains well the presence of snow/firnpack saturated with water even in today's image (almost the end of September)

By the way, a post by Mauri Pelto on the Leningradskiy Ice Cap (Svernaya Zemlya Archipelago) was recently released:
https://blogs.agu.org/fromaglaciersperspective/2020/09/14/leningradskiy-ice-cap-snowcover-vanishes-in-2020-more-thinning-svernaya-zemlya/

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #91 on: September 25, 2020, 04:58:07 PM »
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #92 on: September 25, 2020, 05:10:22 PM »

And the weather is totaly nuts on the russian islands. As of the 24th, the record of the most crazy anomaly is probably for Ostrov Golomnjannyj. The current mean temperature, 4.7°C, is 4° (!) above the old record of 2012, and even 2°C above the warmest month ever recorded, August 1932. Every day have broken their daily record, 15 days had a Tx above the old monthly record, and even one Tn was above the monthly record of Tx... And all of this with 71 mm of rain (and I mean, really rain, liquid water at 5°C), wich is more than three time the normal monthly precipitation amount. From Ostrov Heiss to Ostrov Kotel'Nyj, crossing Khatanga and Ostrov Vize, mean monthly temperature are going to be 2 to 4°C above previous record, and going to be more than 3 sigma above normal. Seing such and anomaly over such an area (we are speaking of something like more than 2 millions of km² or 0.5% of Earth surface) for a monthly mean is unprecedent.
I attach the snow anomaly map from Noco Sun's website @ https://cryospherecomputing.tk/index.html
and from https://ccin.ca/ccw/snow/current - Snow Cover Extent, which shows almost no new snow in Eurasia this month. (What snow exists is mostly on The Tibetan Plateau / Himalaya)
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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #93 on: September 25, 2020, 08:47:22 PM »

And the weather is totaly nuts on the russian islands. As of the 24th, the record of the most crazy anomaly is probably for Ostrov Golomnjannyj. The current mean temperature, 4.7°C, is 4° (!) above the old record of 2012, and even 2°C above the warmest month ever recorded, August 1932. Every day have broken their daily record, 15 days had a Tx above the old monthly record, and even one Tn was above the monthly record of Tx... And all of this with 71 mm of rain (and I mean, really rain, liquid water at 5°C), wich is more than three time the normal monthly precipitation amount. From Ostrov Heiss to Ostrov Kotel'Nyj, crossing Khatanga and Ostrov Vize, mean monthly temperature are going to be 2 to 4°C above previous record, and going to be more than 3 sigma above normal. Seing such and anomaly over such an area (we are speaking of something like more than 2 millions of km² or 0.5% of Earth surface) for a monthly mean is unprecedent.
I attach the snow anomaly map from Noco Sun's website @ https://cryospherecomputing.tk/index.html
and from https://ccin.ca/ccw/snow/current - Snow Cover Extent, which shows almost no new snow in Eurasia this month. (What snow exists is mostly on The Tibetan Plateau / Himalaya)

Snow is a good insulator - so not having any is a good thing as the weather cools. It allows more heat to emit into space. The fact that there is rain rather than snow and there's so much extra heat to lose - now that is very worrying.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #94 on: September 26, 2020, 12:55:29 AM »
Not sure much heat is escaping with the disrupted weather right now and all the North Atlantic storms pouring in right now. We have a long freezing season ahead.

The EC predicts a super ridge sit over the pole at day 10. Not that it’s gonna happen, but it would not be still and quiet for the ice pack in any case.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #95 on: September 26, 2020, 07:00:00 AM »
September 21-25.

2019.

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #96 on: September 26, 2020, 07:02:01 AM »
The Canadian and Siberian fronts look like 2 totally different animals progression-wise right now

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #97 on: September 26, 2020, 09:02:14 AM »
September 21-25.

2019.

WOW

The Atlantic Front pushes beyond 85 N again. Amazing

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #98 on: September 26, 2020, 12:42:13 PM »
Todays images an animation
I recently joined the twitter thing, where I post more analysis, pics and animations: @Icy_Samuel

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Re: The 2020/2021 freezing season
« Reply #99 on: September 26, 2020, 01:17:11 PM »
September 21-25.

2019.

WOW

The Atlantic Front pushes beyond 85 N again. Amazing

Closest point is 503 km from the N. Pole
I recently joined the twitter thing, where I post more analysis, pics and animations: @Icy_Samuel