August 14, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has experienced a greater decrease rate for this week of 7.25% (last week’s decrease rate was 5.64%), from the level on 08/07/2025 of 5.859 M km² to 5.434 M km² for this week.  The sea ice extent for 2025 to date has slipped to 4th place for the lowest sea ice extent for this time of year eclipsed only by the years 2020, 2019, and 2012 when the lowest sea ice extent was at 4.724 M km² on 08/14/2012.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -1.1030 M km² on 08/07/2025 to a lesser negative anomaly of -1.0879 M km² on 08/14/2025, and so less anomalously negative for this time of year.