April 3, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has experienced a decrease for this week at a pretty small rate of 0.35% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 2.13%), from the level on 03/27/2025 of 14.028 M km² to 13.979 M km² for this week.  The sea ice extent right now continues to be at the lowest on record for this time of year; and despite the relatively low decrease in sea ice this past week, we are moving further into the sea ice melt season.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.8692 M km² on 03/27/2025 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.7676 M km² on 04/03/2025, and so less anomalously negative for this time of year.