May 16, 2024: The sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a higher rate of 2.72% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 1.44%), from the level on 05/09/2024 of 13.181 M km2 to 12.822 M km2 for this week.
![](https://akclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/NH_seaice_extent-2024-5-16-1024x623.png)
Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).
The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.0882 M km2 on 05/09/2024 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.0965 M km2 on 05/16/2024, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.
![](https://akclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/NH_seaice_extent-anomaly2024-5-16-1024x623.png)
Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).