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Originally Posted by PaulS
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arctic temps Daily Mean Temperatures in the Arctic 1958 - 2011
Daily mean temperatures for the Arctic area north of the 80th northern parallel
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
January 6, 2010
It’s cold here and in northern Eurasia, but it’s been
positively toasty around the Arctic circle — thanks to an extreme negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation, as the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) explained in their online report yesterday.
January 23, 2010
According to the Danish Meteorological Institute, Arctic temperatures are currently below 238K (-35.15 degrees Celsius or -31.27 degrees Fahrenheit)
That is more than
five degrees below normal (the green line) and the
lowest reading since 2004. The slope of decline has also recently been quite sharp, dropping from 252K on January 1, a drop of 14 degrees in 22 days.