Record Breaking Weather

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Unusually warm Arctic winter stuns scientists with record low ice extent for January

http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/arctic-se...r-january/

Sea ice is virtually absent from the Barents and Kara Seas, which constitute a large swath of the Atlantic Arctic, located northeast of Scandinavia and north of the Russian mainland.

“For the Arctic this is definitely the strangest winter I’ve ever seen," said Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, which tracks sea and land ice around the world.