June 26, 2025: The  Arctic sea ice has experienced a bit lesser decrease for this week of 5.15% (last week’s decrease rate was 5.64%), from the level on 06/19/2025 of 10.218 M km² to 9.692 M km² for this week.  The sea ice extent for 2025 to date is still in first place for the lowest sea ice extent for this time of year since 2016, which was at 9.741 M km² on 6/26/2016.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.9166 M km² on 06/19/2025 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.8984 M km² on 06/26/2025, and so less anomalously negative for this time of year.