Arctic sea ice reaches new low, shattering record

[Forever Sunshine]

New sea ice is finally starting to form again in the Arctic, scientists reported Wednesday, but not before reaching another record low last Sunday.

"We are now in uncharted territory," Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said in a statement announcing the record low of 1.32 million square miles -- nearly half the average extent from 1979 to 2010. The extent has been tracked by satellite since 1979.

"While we’ve long known that as the planet warms up, changes would be seen first and be most pronounced in the Arctic," he added, "few of us were prepared for how rapidly the changes would actually occur."

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Think this maybe linked to the UK's wetter than 'normal' Summer..the warmer temperatures in the Arctic pushing the jet stream down lower than its usually higher Northerly positon and bring cooler wetter air from the North.