[Rockpile]

It should be the equivalent of mid November in Antarctica so the ice may be on the increase now but nothing like it will be in about three months.

There might also be some subsurface volcanism heating the water.

[Fred Nerks]

Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder (SSMIS) on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-17 satellite that provides passive microwave brightness temperatures (and derived Arctic and Antarctic sea ice products) has been providing spurious data since beginning of April. Working on resolving problem or replacing this data source.