January 26, 2023: Over the past week, the sea ice has continued to increase but at a lower rate than last week, of 1.39%, from the level on 01/19/2023 of 13.543 M km² to 13.734 M km² for this week. 

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was a bit greater than the anomaly of -0.953 M km² on 01/12/2023 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.998 M km² on 01/26/2023 and so a bit more anomalously negative for this time of year.