Except in sea ice-influenced waters of the northern Bering Sea, for the week ending March 28, ocean surface temperature are above the 1991-2020 average almost everywhere around Alaska. Southeast Bering Sea especially warm (relative to average). @Climatologist49 @ZLabe
Sea surface temperature departures from 1991-2020 baseline average around Alaska for the ending March 7, 2025. SSTs over nearly the entire Bering Sea south of the pack ice edge are above average, as is a lot of the Gulf of Alaska. The below normal SSTs in the northern Bering are an artifact of the way SSTs are handled in mixed ice/water environments in the OISSTv3.1 dataset from NOAA, #akwx #SST #Arctic