Latest news from National Snow and Ice Data Center:
“The middle of March saw excitement, with several extreme warm events over the Arctic Ocean associated with large transports of water vapor into the region.”
“The Arctic experienced warmer-than-average temperatures in March, with the largest positive anomalies found in the eastern Atlantic sector from Svalbard to Novaya Zemlya. Across the Arctic, the temperature was 2.09°C above the 1991-2020 average, which made it the fourth warmest on record and about 0.5°C cooler than the warmest March in 2017. ”
Reminiscent of 2012, when a storm smooshed all the ice together and led to record low sea ice coverage.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2012/12/N_stddev_timeseries.png
Latest news from National Snow and Ice Data Center:
“The middle of March saw excitement, with several extreme warm events over the Arctic Ocean associated with large transports of water vapor into the region.”
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2022/04/spring-in-fits-and-starts/
“The Arctic experienced warmer-than-average temperatures in March, with the largest positive anomalies found in the eastern Atlantic sector from Svalbard to Novaya Zemlya. Across the Arctic, the temperature was 2.09°C above the 1991-2020 average, which made it the fourth warmest on record and about 0.5°C cooler than the warmest March in 2017. ”
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-march-2022