• April 20 2023:  Over the past week, the sea ice has had a very small net decrease, and since last week, by a rate of only 0.45%, from the level on 04/13/2023 of 14.076 M km² to 14.012 M km² for this week. In the daily values over the past week (pasted below, in km² ) can see that there was still some up and down variability this past week.

• 2023-4-13: 14.076
• 2023-4-14: 14.043
• 2023-4-15: 14.074
• 2023-4-16: 14.127
• 2023-4-17: 14.031
• 2023-4-18: 14.053
• 2023-4-19: 14.015
• 2023-4-20: 14.012

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.692 M km² on 04/13/2023 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.477 M km² on 04/20/2023 and so less anomalously negative for this time of year.