Antarctic sea ice hit 35-year record high Saturday

Weather | 206857 hits | Oct 24 12:17 am | Posted by: N_Fiddledog

Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.

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by N_Fiddledog
Sat Oct 24, 2015 7:24 am
I screwed up.

That's an old story from 2013. I had a bunch of stories all lined up from my bookmarks in tabs at the top of my browser, and I made an oops. Somehow I found an old one and posted it.

In truth, nothing has changed for 2015 since the story that was posted last week about the Antarctic ice extent returning to normal after years of record highs.

A new map released by NASA shows a dramatic change in the level of sea ice around Antarctica, but scientists at the agency�s Goddard Space Flight Center say the change is simply a �return to normalcy� after a streak of record-breaking high ice years.

Each of the previous three years broke a new record for the largest maximum extent of sea ice around the southern pole in the satellite era. In 2014, Antarctic sea ice reached is maximum extent on September 20, covering 7.78 million square miles. In 2015, the maximum extent covered just 7.27 million square miles, 16th on the list and the lowest since 2008.
According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, this year�s maximum extent was slightly above average for all measurements taken between 1981 and 2010 average and occurred relatively late in the year compared to past years.

http://www.weather.com/news/climate/new ... aks-streak

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