Arctic sea ice is in a downward spiral, and may break a record in 2020
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2020
If one were to design a weather pattern that's most efficient at ridding the Arctic of its increasingly fragile ice cover during the region's summer melt season, it would look like what occurred earlier in the month - clear skies, above-average air temperatures, a high-pressure system across the Central Arctic and an ongoing heat wave and wildfires in Siberia.