Yeah that feature has been on T Tidbits for a while now, gives a good perspective of how relatively warm the ocean actually is.
If the oceans were to warm a few more degrees, would the effects of la nina cease to exist, or is entirely dependent on how warm it is relative to the rest of the planet?
Flew back to pdx last night and am back in sunriver now, 56 degrees currently with a low of 26.8. Had .05" of precip when we were gone and our largest temp spread was a 82/27 day.
Was kinda hoping for a week of 70s, 80s, and 90s when we came back, I'm tired of the cold now after having an 8 day period where the warmest temp I felt was -11F.
Yeah, this is great. Can really see the deeply -PDO in place, with the most extreme anomalies on the entire planet in the central Pacific. And warm Atlantic hurricane corridor.
On a scale of 1-10, 1 being Mailbox peak and a 10 being K2, I'd place it around a 6. Highly depends on the year and month you go, we were early in the season so the fixed lines above 14k camp were still being de-iced meaning we couldn't use them, and that section is a long 50 degree slope of blue ice. Basically the entire route below 14k camp is spent on highly crevassed Glaciers, but we came on a high snow year and had stable snowbridges the entire way, we were lucky enough to only have 1 group member fall in a crevasse. There's a number of knife edge ridgewalks, where a fall not caught by rope or arrested with an ice axe would mean certain death. And of course there is a lot of Avalanche danger and risk of frostbite in a major storm.
Worst part is that you're legally required to carry 2+ weeks of sh*t in your backpack, back in the 80s we were allowed to throw it in the famous poop crevasse.