Since the flip in the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation , back in 2014, I think I have seen the Pacific side of the basin taking an earlier pounding each year with the last 2 seeing little ice in the entrance to the basin from melt season 'get go'?



Could it be that the 0.5c increases in sst's the flip in the I.P.O. drives over its 30 year 'cycle' could now be giving melt season, over that side of the basin, and early shove?



We know that during a Nino the Kelvin waves work their way up the U.S. coast and into the basin via the Alaskan current so could a similar , if slower, train of ever warmer waters be working into that side of the basin ( and for the next 26 years?)



We have seen a portion of the Atlantic entrance into the basin returning to a more 'normal' ocean profile since the turn of the century. Will the Pacific side , aided and abetted by the I.P.O. , now play catch up ?