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Isn't it drifting south (and into shallower waters)?Latest location (triangle)
A robot at a Michigan factory for bumpers and trailer hitches went rogue, entered an area it was not supposed to be in and killed a human worker, according to a suit.
Wanda Holbrook was a technician at Ventra Ionia, west of Grand Rapids, before her skull was crushed by a machine in July 2015.
A federal suit filed by the 57-year-old’s widower last week said that she was working on one section when a robot from another area “took Wanda by surprise, entering the section she was working in.”
“Upon entering the section, the robot hit and crushed Wanda’s head between a hitch assembly it was attempting to place,” the court papers say.
An illustration of what I mean by "rather late". Beaufort an neighbors.
Click to start.
Do we actually know its raining or are we just going on GFS reanalysis? I would not trust the GFS to get the precipitation type right.
That's what I have been saying. Normally the ice in the CAA would have been a backstop for compaction, now it becomes simply another escape route.
The shape the ice is in, the whole Arctic will probably flush out like a giant toilet full of crushed ice.
Off topic but permissible?
Mission Impossible?
ps: A clue regarding Arctic Ocean snowfall last winter to spring is Greenland, which accumulated snowfall about 100 gigatonne more than average and just about the maximum in DMI's 30 year record.
BIG pattern changes again folks!
Both the GFS and the ECMWF op runs depict a return to a cyclonic pattern again. And an intensive 977 hpa cyclone by D7... Well, the GFS ensemble hints the return to occur by D9 whic is far out in time. Let's wait for the ECMWF ensemble!
If this pattern change really unfolds, I'm pretty sure we'll dodge the bullet again this year. But the question is for how many more years we'll be able to dodge that bullet? It's unrealistic to believe that we'll have "good" ice years for another 10 years.
81 hour loop June 21-24, Chukchi Sea on the NW Alaskan coast.Look at all that blue ponding on the right hand side. Small wonder the NASIDC area cratered in the Beaufort/Chukchi.
SEA ICE OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND ARCTIC ALASKAN COASTAL WATERS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE ALASKA
240 PM AKDT THURSDAY 22 JUNE 2017
...JUNE 2017 MONTHLY SEA ICE OUTLOOK...
LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE...THE SEA ICE BREAK UP SEASON IS WELL
UNDERWAY AT RECORD PACE IN THE CHUKCHI SEA AND HAS BEGUN IN THE
EASTERN BEAUFORT SEA AS WELL. MOST OF THE REMAINING SEA ICE IN THE
ALASKA WATERS OF THE CHUKCHI SEA IS ALONG THE WEST COAST OF
ALASKA...GENERALLY FROM POINT LAY TO BARROW.
AS WE LOOK FARTHER INTO BREAKUP SEASON...THE EARLY BREAKUP THROUGH
MUCH OF THE CHUKCHI SEA THIS SEASON AND A LACK OF SIGNIFICANT MULTI-
YEAR ICE IN THE SOUTHERN BEAUFORT SEA AND NORTHERN CHUKCHI SEA MAY
HAVE A LARGE IMPACT ON BREAKUP IN THE BEAUFORT SEA IN THE NEXT
COUPLE MONTHS...POSSIBLY RESULTING IN EARLIER BREAKUP THAN IN RECENT
YEARS.
DETAILED INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN EACH PERTINENT SECTION BELOW.
Right, and like I said, you get these big swings for temperature because of night and day. But SLP doesn't fluctuate that much because of the difference between night and day, right?
I don't expect much of a SIE drop for JAXA, but looking at the big picture, things are going down quality wise. 17th-19th. The illusory thick ice is all but gone now.
Another question...
What determines the initial conditions for models like the GFS in the arctic? Is it driven by the buoys? Satellite measurements? I'm wondering if the input data could be wrong because there are so few reliable stations in the arctic.
@JayW
Not only do you see the fast ice breaking off, but look at all the smaller floes getting pushed out to open water to be melted sooner.
Good view yesterday of Alaska looking into the beaufort. Still some snow cover on the extreme northern coast. Assuming it melts out this week that will still be a good week or two later than many recent years. Lakes and ponds on the land are likely to stay frozen for several days yet which can only be a good thing as it modifies air masses moving over them.
That large crack in the fast ice is located close to Utqiagvik and might become visible in the webcam there as open water if the crack widens or if additional fissures open up.
Jaxa sea ice thickness image has and is showing a big lump of very thick ice at the pacific end of the CAB. From whence it came?
..., the white lines against a dark backround I find puzzling. ....Just a guess (never been there
Latest model runs seems more ice friendly with a more cyclonic weather impact later in the runs. While bad it might not be a complete disaster for the ice.
57 hour loop of Amundsen gulf.
Very nice animation! I'm trying to get an idea of the scale by matching it up with a map. I can't figure out exactly where it is in Amundsen Gulf. Is it near Investigator Island?
