The north pole camera has updated

[XemaSab]

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Is that some guy on a Ski-Doo out having some fun?

[XemaSab]

3. I'm half expecting a shark to come breaching out of there

[Jamastiene]

2. Are you sure?

I hope Rudolph and Santa can swim.

[XemaSab]

6. It's not *technically* at the pole because the ice moves

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html

But the formation of a lake there was in the news a few days ago.

Per faux (of all sources):

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/07/26/north-pole-now-lake/

[pansypoo53219]

4. i have been watching the noth pole for years. this pond does not look so large from the other cam.

past years i have seen more snow storms. a few years ago in sept it was far wetter. i believe it had really melted. you can watch past years.

[joshcryer]

5. Clearer screenshot (no dew on camera lens):

edit: my bad the OP's screenshot is actually newer, I grabbed this from the video

[XemaSab]

7. Better view though

How big do you think that is?

[joshcryer]

8. 100 acres? Hard to tell. I do see the ice on the horizon there though.

[XemaSab]

9. I'd like to know how high those ridges are, too

They're visible in the air photo. It looks like the floe was crushed on the sides, leaving nowhere for the water to drain to. What should be strengthening the ice is now weakening it.

[joshcryer]

10. Hard for me to distinguish clouds from ice in the air photos.

I admit I don't spend nearly as much time as you looking at the ice though.

[XemaSab]

12. I suck

They're clouds.

[joshcryer]

13. Ha!

I honestly can't tell!

[XemaSab]

14. If you go all the way down there's open water

The texture continues on the water.

There are only a couple spots where you can see the ice surface. There's a storm up there now.

[B Calm]

15. Damn, open water at the north pole. .

[Berlum]

16. "Let's see now, how can I rationalize this away to my suckerpuppet listeners." - Rush

"I've got it! It's as easy as popping a pill! I'll simply say the libtards are aiming dastardly HAARP rays on the North Pole to simulate melting and thereby trick everyone into actually doing something about global climate change! Oh, I am indeed brilliant."

- Rush 'Draft Dodger' Limbaugh (R - Propaganda Pimp)

[Berlum]

17. "We has us a strategery. Smirk." - RepubliBaggers, Inc. (R)