Our planetary climate emergency in just a few images.
xCape Morris Jesup (#Greenland's northernmost observation station) is now reporting temperatures well above freezing today... +6.1°C at the latest observation! Crazy! Station is provided by @dmidk at https://t.co/kedfPPAg9q. pic.twitter.com/wEcs4B61mo
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 24, 2018 xThe most intense surge of moisture/warmth (relative to average) for this event will be pushing over the North Pole tomorrow. Temperatures projected near 0°C. Meanwhile, brutal cold remains over Europe. Graphics available from https://t.co/PsOBvTVbA2pic.twitter.com/LK6rvpaow6
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 25, 2018 xSea ice extent in the Bering Sea (Arctic) continues its decline. "Warm" and strong southerly winds have contributed to this anomalous retreat of ice into the Bering Strait. 2018 is the clear outlier in the satellite era (each thin line = 1979-2017, @NSIDC data) pic.twitter.com/kzEV6yEFmp
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 24, 2018 xWow... truly a remarkable event ongoing right now in the #Arctic. Current temperatures well above previous years in February (>80°N latitude)! Average temperature is the bright blue line (https://t.co/kO5ufUWrKq). pic.twitter.com/BuseG4hQPE
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 23, 2018 xVery strange things also going on offshore northern #Greenland (close to Cape Morris Jesup - lower left). A large sea ice fracture and consequently an area of open water has formed. Offshore winds likely playing a role.Visual from @NASANPP#VIIRS: https://t.co/v26USjGpJrpic.twitter.com/VeA8XpcNdB
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 25, 2018 xLong conveyor belt of moisture feeding the intense poleward intrusion event - characteristic of anomalous wintertime warming in the #Arctic Graphic from @UWCIMSS at https://t.co/Qi01csSdlWpic.twitter.com/1wICqufojT
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) February 24, 2018There is a truly stunning video link embedded in the below tweet, as well as from the video author, Bayapuna Soolook of Little Diomede AK (at her FB Link). You will not want to miss it.
Videos from the island, which straddles the border with Russia show high waves slamming into the coastline, when normally there would be a sheet of ice protecting the island from high waves during the winter.
xThis is what record low sea ice in the Arctic means on the ground: stunning FB video taken Tuesday Feb 20 from Little Diomede, Alaska, smack in the middle of Bering Strait. Scary stuff, on many levels. #akwx#Arctic@Climatologist49@ZLabehttps://t.co/e2Hb4Rvgry
— Rick Thoman (@AlaskaWx) February 21, 2018For further reading: It will be warmer at the North Pole next week than much of Europe, as sea ice
h/t Climate Code Red