Hans Kiesewetter reports melt ponds at the North Pole 5 days before the previous record of June 24, 2003

Hans Kiesewetter has been having a look at the North Pole webcam. 


He reports that the first melting ponds were visible on June 19th. 


He sends these links for photo examples:

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2011/images/noaa1-2011-0619-092045.jpg or

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/npole/2011/images/noaa1-2011-0620-012033.jpg.

Hans tells us that these ponds occurred 5 days before the previous record of June 24th in 2003.


See page: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/ice-npole.shtml

Thank you, Hans!