June 15 2023:  Over the past week, the sea ice had a decrease, since last week, by a higher rate of 4.81%, from the level on 06/08/2023 of
11.551 M km² to 10.995 M km² for this week. 

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.622 M km² on 06/08/2023 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.812 M km² on 06/15/2023 and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.