In 2025, experts from NASA and the US National Snow and Ice Data Center recorded a record low level of winter ice coverage in the Arctic, www.ttelegraf.ru reported.
On March 22, the maximum volume of ice cover was recorded at about 14.3 million square kilometres, which is 2.6 million less than last year's level and 78,000 km less than the previous anti-record of eight years ago.
The Gulf of St. Lawrence is almost completely ice-free, and in the Sea of Okhotsk the ice coverage is significantly lower than average values. In January, the ice coverage decreased by an area comparable to the size of Italy.
The reason could be cyclonic systems that sent warm southerly winds to the regions of the Barents and Bering Seas. These winds created waves that shattered the edges of the ice. Temperatures between Northern Greenland and the pole were also recorded at 12 degrees above normal.
Alex Shishlo, Editor in Chief of the European Bureau, Rough&Polished
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