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Antarctic ice melts to January record low (lowest January amount since records began in 1978)
Last edited Sun Jan 6, 2019, 05:39 PM - Edit history (1)
USA Today, 1/4/19
The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has melted to a record low for January, scientists announced this week. ((remember it's summer there -- January is their "July". And almost assuredly, more is going to melt before January is over, so new January lows are on the way in the next days -Progree ))
As of January 1, there was 2.11 million square miles of sea ice around the continent, the smallest January area since records began in 1978, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
... Antarctic sea ice is typically at its smallest in late February or early March, toward the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
“Antarctic sea ice extent is astonishingly low this year, not just near the Ross Ice Shelf, but around most of the continent,” Cecilia Bitz, a polar scientist at the University of Washington, told Grist on Thursday.
...With six to eight weeks remaining in the melt season, the ice center said it remains to be seen whether the Antarctic sea ice will set its all-time record-low minimum.
https://news.yahoo.com/antarctic-ice-melts-january-record-182108859.html
The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has melted to a record low for January, scientists announced this week. ((remember it's summer there -- January is their "July". And almost assuredly, more is going to melt before January is over, so new January lows are on the way in the next days -Progree ))
As of January 1, there was 2.11 million square miles of sea ice around the continent, the smallest January area since records began in 1978, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
... Antarctic sea ice is typically at its smallest in late February or early March, toward the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
“Antarctic sea ice extent is astonishingly low this year, not just near the Ross Ice Shelf, but around most of the continent,” Cecilia Bitz, a polar scientist at the University of Washington, told Grist on Thursday.
...With six to eight weeks remaining in the melt season, the ice center said it remains to be seen whether the Antarctic sea ice will set its all-time record-low minimum.
https://news.yahoo.com/antarctic-ice-melts-january-record-182108859.html
