[StratoQ]

NOAA have just deployed their web cam at the north pole. Have been doing this since 2002.

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

Who knows, there may not be many more years before we will be looking at open water! [v]

[brshort716]

Well, being the middle of June and the cameras being covered in snow/frost.. I'd say this year is doing alright! :)

[Andy Mayhew]

Unless the ice has already melted and that's actually the view from the bottom of the Arctic ocean [hehe]

[brshort716]

I found this to be quite interesting.

http://www.arctic.no...ersteiner3.html

The onset of the melt has been later than average in 2002, 2003, 2004, and now again in 2006. While things are melting around the edges, the pole itself doesn't seem to be quite so warm.