December 26, 2024: The Arctic sea ice has continued to increase this week but at a lesser rate of 3.65% (as opposed to last week’s increase rate of 5.77%), from the level on 12/19/2024 of 11.676 M km² to 12.118 M km² for this week.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was slightly lower than the anomaly of -0.9345 M km² on 12/19/2024 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.9327 M km² on 12/26/2024, and so a bit less anomalously negative for this time of year than last week.