The melting season hasn’t started in earnest yet, but it seems the Bering Sea hasn’t received the memo. For almost the entire winter, sea ice has been reluctant to form there, and now that the Sun has returned, the ice edge has started to retreat to record high latitudes, past the Bering Strait all the way up into the Chukchi Sea.

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Although the spring 2018 Bering melt has been particularly dramatic, it is clear that it is no fluke, but part of a pattern that extends back for the last few seasons.

http://neven1.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f03a1e37970b01b8d2e5c4c1970c-800wi