Someone was saying something about some cliff?
yes that was me and hight of a cliff can differ, some are 1km high, others just 50 meters and it happened now twice, just did not last, mostly because of the storms this time which in the long run will have their negative impact on the ice and then i say it again. this so called extent (>15% ice cover) is by no means close to 100% ice cover but closer to 30-40% which might boost the extent number for those who like to deny the current state but does neither change the low overall amount of ice as well as the heat in the system and the sudden drops that will happen again during the coming 2-3 weeks once the cover will fall below the 15% mark in huge areas (as it happened recently.
so in short, the cliffs were not very high but there were quite a few and if too many guys have a problem with how i use the word "cliff" i'm ready to learn, provide my with the word you think or know that it suits better and i will gladly use that other term from now on. i'm not stuck with that word, did not invent it and just adopted it from other people using the term.
so let's agree on a term but stick to the fact that we are still intermittently moving around the lowest values for the date, once 1st, then 2nd, then 3rd, back to first and back to 2nd. this is definitely not what those who
lost the feel for this melting season predicted when they announced 4th place or "better" after each little stall, mostly due to the fact that the remaining ice is millions of units while in earlier years it was in solid state.