April 7 2023:  Over the past week, the sea ice has continued to decrease, and since last week, by a rate at 1.62%, from the level on 03/31/2023 of 14.284 M km² to 14.053 M km² for this week.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.885 M km² on 03/31/2023 to a grater negative anomaly of -0.940 M km² on 04/06/2023 and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.