The Arctic Circle is becoming frozen but according to bloggers of the 'north' they state the flows are not new and the refreeze is coming late. One of the myths the Neocon newsnetworks like to promote is that there has never been more ice at the North Pole, but, they won't talk about the fact their president is lusting after oil in sea beds now exposed as never before in recorded history. They are such liars and manipulators and they expect to be taken seriously.
...Amid all this slushy angst, the Pacific walrus had decamped to the northwestern Alaskan coast in such numbers that Native elders were stunned and marine mammal scientists were rattled, as FNS reported earlier this month.
Barrow blogger Anne Brygger reports seeing a lone walrus swept along in broken floes off the coast, apparently caught up in shattered pans that just won't freeze hard.
"For the last few days ice has been showing up from somewhere to the north & east," she writes in the latest post from Tundra Garden. "It's small chunks, but they have 6 inches or more thickness, so they're not brand new.
"This is really late."
In their latest dispatch, posted on line Oct. 16, the ice gurus at NSIDC report sea ice extent has expanded to about 2.18 million square miles - a 37 percent increase since the Arctic cap set its all-time minimum record of 1.59 million square miles on Sept. 16.
The Northwest Passage has also refrozen, after opening for the first time in modern history.
"Though some portions of the channels appear to still be fairly free of ice, all possible routes would now require ice-hardened vessels or icebreakers to transit," the NSIDC says....
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Temperature :: 45 °F / 7 °C
Conditions :: Overcast
Humidity :: 81%
Dew Point :: 39 °F / 4 °C
Wind :: 15 mph / 24 km/h / 6.7 m/s from the SE
Wind Gust :: 18 mph / 30 km/h / 8.2 m/s
Pressure :: 29.58 in / 1002 hPa (Steady)
Windchill :: 38 °F / 3 °C
Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Scattered Clouds 2100 ft / 640 m
Mostly Cloudy 2800 ft / 853 m
Overcast 4300 ft / 1310 m
(Above Ground Level)
