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*Arctic Sea Ice* reaches the 2021 minimum, with more ice left than in the past seven years, due to cooler weather conditions in the western Arctic

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Arctic sea ice has reached its minimum extent on September 16th. But it was far from lowest on record and was actually just 12th lowest … Read more

Stratospheric Polar Vortex returns for Winter 2021/2022, together with a strong easterly wind anomaly high above the Equator, impacting the Winter season

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A new stratospheric Polar Vortex has now emerged over the North Pole and will continue to strengthen well into the Winter of 2021/2022. It will … Read more

August 2021 Sea Ice loss was surprisingly second-lowest in the past 20 years, thanks to the Cold Weather patterns in the western Arctic Ocean

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August 2021 has featured the second-lowest Arctic sea ice loss in the past 20 years. The main reason behind it was the colder than normal … Read more

The Gulf Stream is nearing a Critical point of Collapse, new data shows, with the Weakening Ocean Current impacting the Global Weather

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The Gulf Stream has weakened substantially in the past decades, as new data and studies show. Weather in the United States and Europe depends strongly … Read more