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My family is reporting about 6 inches near Linglestown from last night.

Yep, same here, just light snow in Plainsboro, NJ for the last hour or so.

2.0 inches in Plainsboro, NJ... was hoping for a bit more, but can't complain I guess!

I believe the paper should now be open access - sorry for the issues! https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/36/20/JCLI-D-22-0716.1.xml

https://www.wired.com/story/the-mysterious-warming-hole-in-the-middle-of-the-us/

While land surface feedbacks are certainly playing a role, we recently reinvestigated this issue and found that ocean-atmosphere interactions can also force this area of cooling: Eischeid, J.K., M.P. Hoerling, X.-W. Quan, A. Kumar, J. Barsugli, Z.M. Labe, K.E. Kunkel, C.J. Schreck III, D.R. Easterling, T. Zhang, J. Uehling, and X. Zhang (2023). Why has the summertime central U.S. warming hole not disappeared? Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0716.1 https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/aop/JCLI-D-22-0716.1/JCLI-D-22-0716.1.xml

Hi! The graphs are mine - the data is not off, and the x-axis is the same for both graphs. Note that this is showing the daily sea ice anomalies (which set a new record in 2020 in terms of the absolute magnitude compared to the 1981-2010 average). This is demonstrated more clearly here. This is not showing the actual extent, which did of course reach a minimum in 2012.

My family just 2 miles west of Linglestown is reporting hail larger the golf balls.

There are numerous studies (older and more recent) that detail the Arctic warming in the early 20th century: i.e., Delworth and Knutson, [2000], Bengtsson et al. [2004], Serreze and Francis, [2006] There is also a fairly nice and concise overview from Skeptical Science. Changes in sea ice are driven by far more than surface temperature. For example, a significant portion of 2016's melt season was forced by bottom melt and increased SST/oceanic heat.

This is just not true. Most of us studying sea ice - atmospheric interactions spend the majority of our time trying to understand and quantify natural climate variability in the context of a long-term record. There is a plethora of peer-reviewed work to showcase the current/recent sea ice anomalies are particularly unusual.

I think this speaks for itself... (from Twitter)

Definitely agree. I think it will be particularly interesting to see the PIOMAS volume/thickness numbers for October. Although now we can get a glimpse at the CryoSat-2 season: http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/seaice.html

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