August 8, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week and at a greater rate of 11.22% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 8.37%), from the level on 08/01/2024 of 6.241 M km² to 5.541 M km² for this week.  For this time of year, we are now essentially tied at the 2nd lowest amount in the record in 2012 and just above the lowest amount for this time in 2020.  Three out of the last four weeks have had double digit percentage losses in sea ice.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -1.142 M km² on 08/01/2024 to a greater negative anomaly of -1.355 M km² on 08/08/2024, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.