December 5, 2024: The Arctic sea ice has continued to increase this week but at a higher rate of 6.22% (as opposed to last week’s increase rate of 4.66%), from the level on 11/28/2024 of 10.048 M km² to 10.714 M km² for this week

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -1.0477 M km² on 11/28/2024 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.8958 M km² on 12/05/2024, and so less anomalously negative for this time of year than last week.