OK, chillens, are we gonna call it open today, July 26, 2009? [click on graphic to enlarge details]
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B Buckner said... Nice pics! I don't always agree with your take on things, but you provide a valuable and interesting service with this blog. Thanks for the effort and keep up the good work.
- Thanks B Buckner, I honestly don't know what purpose this blog serves, but if it helps people find info that they are looking for, then it must serve a purpose after all.
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- Albert said...
It does not seem to me that it has. And what are you calling the Northwest Passage. It looks like the Northern Passage along the northern coast of Russia is getting nearly open. But the passage through the Canadian arctic island is not yet that close. Maybe in a couple of weeks.
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I'd want more detail around the New Siberian Islands before I declared it open. The CT chart says it's close but not yet open. One can certainly see on MODIS that the ice in the East Siberian Sea has more-or-less cleared along the coast, and that the Vilkitsky Strait is pretty clear (between the Taymyr peninsula and Severnaya Zemlya). But we've got no eyeballs around the New Siberian Islands, until those clouds clear. I guess we'll see in the next couple of days.
Nice pics! I don't always agree with your take on things, but you provide a valuable and interesting service with this blog. Thanks for the effort and keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteIt does not seem to me that it has. And what are you calling the Northwest Passage. It looks like the Northern Passage along the northern coast of Russia is getting nearly open. But the passage through the Canadian arctic island is not yet that close. Maybe in a couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteI'd want more detail around the New Siberian Islands before I declared it open. The CT chart says it's close but not yet open. One can certainly see on MODIS that the ice in the East Siberian Sea has more-or-less cleared along the coast, and that the Vilkitsky Strait is pretty clear (between the Taymyr peninsula and Severnaya Zemlya). But we've got no eyeballs around the New Siberian Islands, until those clouds clear. I guess we'll see in the next couple of days.
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