Joe writes to me today to tell me he’s started a weekly sea ice video report. He’s following our weekly Sea Ice News and Sea Ice Page lead, and even prominently referencing WUWT during his broadcast. Good for him, because this “death spiral watch” is of intense interest wordwide. Two years of sea ice recovery is interesting, but third year in a row is a whole new ball game.
Our one stop shopping Sea Ice Page has quickly become a world wide favorite, and Joe uses some of the graphics offered there.
Joe is now in agreement with Steve Goddard and me on the forecast. We’ll see how it pans out this coming September, last September we hit minimum at 09/13/2009 with a minimum of 5, 249, 844 km2 (source here)
To watch the AccuWeather broadcast go to:
http://www.accuweather.com/video.asp?channel=vbbastaj
BTW I should add the Joe, being of Italian descent also says in his email he was being cute with “Antnee” used the term “cumare” like some would use the word “com-padre”. Of course I’m sure those who have a long standing dislike of me will choose their own wise guy definition.
Joe B is one of the best in the business as seeing long term trends in weather and giving the public the explanation as to why. La Nina is indeed coming on and will have serious repercussions for people in the Western part of the US this coming winter. However the east, and especially the south, will likely see much above normal temperatures this coming winter while Alaska and the Northwest will suffer numbing cold. While weather and climate are different, long term weather patterns have a huge influence on our climate and the cold phase of the PDO (which has already begun) and the oncoming cold phase of the AMO will combine to make talk of Global Warming seem pretty silly in the next 5-20 years to come.
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/pips2/ithi.html
I’m surprised PIPs isn’t on the Arctic Sea Ice page. I looked it up, and found it interesting that the thick (red) areas I was wondering about in late June are gone. In fact, only a tiny area of yellow left now. Will we get a PIPs update someday?
Hi,
my last forecast is:
Minimum 6028740 km^2 on 4th September.