and the Arctic sea ice cover was the second-lowest July ice extent of the last 33 years, when satellite records began. (Last year’s July was a shade lower).
The graphs for every single month of the year show a dramatic decline in ice cover since satellite observations began in 1979, but the thaw is most noticeable, and the decline from year to year is most precipitous, during the summer months . The month of lowest ice cover, and the month with the most extreme decline, is September. I’ll keep you posted.
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