Last month observed substantial departures in #Antarctic sea ice, which were particularly focused around the Indian Ocean sector and near the Ross/Amundsen Seas. This is a different spatial pattern compared to last year.
Ah Zack, does there exist a accessible data set to track the meridional component of air mass movements as it seems to have gone nuts since several months - at least in the Northern Hemisphere - happens over the whole mid-latitudes continents- poleward/equatorward - weather ping pong without end...
and that Arctic sea ice will exist during the following summer again is highly uncertain - just the triggered circulation changes could prevent that...
So we get here a persistent regime shift - an important component if we will reach 2°C warming around 2030. And as currently the whole dynamic Earths system goes nuts all looks like it is a real possibility - main component Arctic sea ice loss during summer before 2030 and MHWs further intensifying