July 4, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a greater rate of 6.88 % (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 5.31%), from the level on 06/27/2024 of 10.097 M km² to 9.402 M km² for this week.

The  negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.409 M km² on 06/27/2024 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.474 M km² on 07/04/2024, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.