June 29 2023:  Over the past week, the sea ice had a decrease, since last week, by a higher rate of 7.38%, from the level on 06/22/2023 of
10.544 M km² to 9.766 M km² for this week.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.819 M km² on 06/22/2023 to a greater negative anomaly of -1.070 M km² on 06/29/2023, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.