The number of Arctic Freezing Degree Days is absolutely collapsing

[GliderGuider]

Explanations and discussion here:
https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/processes/thermodynamic_growth.html
http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2016/04/winter-analysis-addendum.html

[iemitsu]

1. Not good.

I was born in Alaska, many years ago, and the glaciers that I remember as a kid are all melted.
No one there denies climate change.

[yourpaljoey]

2. wow

[OnlinePoker]

3. I use DMI for this info and it's showing the same thing.

You can go all the way back to 1958 and so far, 2016 has been the most consistently above average temperature year to date above the 80th parallel.

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

[Canoe52]

4. Thanks for the

Link to DMI, I had never been to their website before, lots of good info!

[truebrit71]

7. +1

Really good info...

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Andrew Slater's regularly updated graph for this is here:

http://cires1.colorado.edu/~aslater/ARCTIC_TAIR/index_80_t2m.html

It's nearly at -1000 by now:



There's also a graph of the absolute numbers - it's reach about 4500, when the median for this time of year is about 5500.

[NickB79]

6. We're gonna need a bigger chart. nt