out with the old

"Yes this is definitely an unusual setup, with almost all the old ice on the Atlantic front or pressed up as a kind of continental rind against Greenland/CAA(Canadian Arctic archipelago. I remember when we used to have a thick and long arm of old ice stretching across the Beaufort almost all the way to Siberia and delaying or even stopping melt procession on that front. Now it is all wide open - the Atlantic front will be exported to oblivion, and the continental rind also tends to be pushed towards the Fram our out the Nares.

Next year might be interesting ..." benntho, on The Arctic Ice Blog, Re: The 2023/2024 freezing season, Reply #173 on: December 11, 2023, 08:13:31 AM


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So, there's this area in the arctic called the Nares Strait; what's been happening is that, during the summer melt, ice gets pushed by winds toward and then out of the Nares Strait. When the ice is old ice, like all that red stuff that's currently just sitting by the strait ready for the heave-ho, then, well, there goes the old ice. And the arctic isn't really making much other old ice right now.