February 13, 2025: The  Arctic sea ice has has changed to increasing for this week at a rate of 2.05% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of -0.45%), from the level on 02/06/2025 of 13.393 M km² to 13.673 M km² for this week.  So, after two anomalous weeks in a row of decreasing sea ice extent, we are back to sea ice growth and the seasonal shift to the melting season has not yet started. Arctic sea ice extent for the time of year is very low.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -1.2833 M km² on 02/06/2025 to a lesser negative anomaly of -1.1852 M km² on 02/13/2025, and so less anomalously negative for this time of year. The sea ice anomaly remains at near record low levels.