Arctic ice shelf now split in three, mission finds

..."The map of Canada is changing," Derek Mueller, a Trent University researcher, said yesterday at Eureka's weather station, which is fewer than 1,200 kilometres south of the North Pole on the western coast of Ellesmere Island. "There are only five [ice shelves] left on Ellesmere, but almost 100 years ago the entire coastline was covered in ice shelves."...


Arctic Sea Ice Younger than Normal (click here)
...The area and thickness of sea ice that survives the summer has been declining over the past decade. Whereas perennial ice used to cover 50-60 percent of the Arctic, it covered less than 30 percent in 2008—down 10 percent from 2007. The ice that remains is also getting younger. In the mid- to late 1980s, over 20 percent of Arctic sea ice was at least six years old; in February 2008, just 6 percent of the ice was six years old or older....

The Weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

5:57 PM AKDT

Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W

Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m

Temperature :: 39 Fahrenheit

Conditions :: Overcast

Windchill :: 34 F / 1 C

Humidity :: 87%

Dew Point :: 36 F / 2 C

Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h / 3.1 m/s from the ESE

Pressure :: 29.76 in / 1008 hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 8.0 miles / 12.9 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds :: Few 900 ft / 274 m
Mostly Cloudy 1600 ft / 487 m
Overcast 2600 ft / 792 m
(Above Ground Level)