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ARCTIC SEA ICE SEES EXPONENTIAL GAINS According to official data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Arctic Sea Ice Volume is now growing exponentially. After an admittedly low starting point, sea ice "volume" or "thickness" (which gives you a far better idea of an ice sheet's health than the highly variable "extent") began building at record rates during the start of the season (Sept, 2020) and has now eclipsed recent years and also muscled its way into 2004-2013 average range, in what has been described as a "historic shift." As visualized below, sea ice in those central Arctic ...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:35 UTC According to the satellites, the global lower troposphere cooled rapidly during the past two months (Dec + Jan). Mid-latitude cooling is only intensifying-further during February as record-breaking polar blasts are about to descend into North America, Europe, and Asia simultaneously: tight ZONAL flows to unusually wavy MERIDIONAL ones. This reduction in energy is effectively "buckling" those bands of fast-flowing air, with the upshot (in the NH) being the transportation of tropical warmth anomalously-far north, and, conversely, the sinking of polar cold unusually-...

Ironing Out Cosmic Rays Physics 14, s9 A spectrometer on the International Space Station has measured the energy spectrum of iron—the heaviest cosmic-ray element characterized to date. AMS Collaboration × The cosmic rays constantly bombarding Earth mostly consist of protons and helium nuclei, but they also include ions of heavier elements. By comparing the energy spectra of different cosmic-ray particles, researchers hope to garner information on the processes that forged and accelerated those particles in supernovae and on the interstellar medium through which the particles propagated. No...

An unusually unsettled summer is being experienced in Middle Earth, particularly on New Zealand's South Island where substantial snow has blanketed the mountains over recent days and weeks. There's a fresh accumulation of pow-pow on the peaks around Queenstown this week, after conditions in the Lakes area allowed for flakes to settle. Frigid polar air left Antarctica on Sunday, and it has lingered over Australasia ever-since. As reported by odt.co.nz, Weatherwatch says temperatures will continue to be down across New Zealand as a storm near Stewart Island slowly tracks eastwards, dredging u...

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:48 UTC The south of France has suffered exceptionally chilly temperatures this winter, with reports calling it "a winter like no other". Woolly hats, coats, scarves and gloves are a strange sight along the Côte d'Azur (aka the French Riviera), reports monaco-tribune.com, even at this time of year. Normally, a light jacket is all that is needed to keep warm under the winter sun, but temperatures at the close of 2020 and the during the first third of January 2021 have held a baguette-clasping 6 to 7 degrees Celsius below average. The French Riviera is susceptible to two dif...