This post reviews spring temperatures and precipitation for the Arctic. Pan-Arctic sea ice and snow pack for May 2026 are covered in a post here. The May climate summary for Alaska is here (now updated with ERA5 graphics).
Spring 2026 overall was colder than the 1991-2020 baseline average across most of the North American Arctic (Fig. 1). At the eastern and western ends of the continent, Nunavut and Alaska had the second coldest spring in the past 40 years, while in between, the…
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