Russian Coastline Freezes in last Ten days
With the Canadian Arctic already frozen over, the action has moved to the Russian side. The image above shows East Siberian and Laptev basins filling in completely. Meanwhile on the right Kara Sea has gone from open water to nearly half of last March maximum. Kara went from 114k km2 on day 298 to 435k km2 yesterday, 47% of March max.
The graph shows MASIE reporting ice extents totaling 9.0M km2 yesterday, matching the 11 year average (2007 to 2017 inclusive). Notice that 2018 lagged the average by 900k km2 on day 296 and overcame that gap in 13 days. Presently, 2018 is tracking 300k km2 above 2007, 600k km2 more than 2012, and 1.3M km2 more than 2016. NOAA’s Sea Ice Index continutes to match MASIE through this period.
The current IMS Snow and Ice Chart shows how snow is covering Siberia…
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