March 15, 2024:  The sea ice has increased this week at a greater growth rate of 1.28% (as opposed to last week’s increase rate of 0.01%), from the level on 03/07/2024 of 14.784 M km² to 14.976 M km² for this week. So we are still awaiting the change to the sea ice melt season which is probably coming pretty soon.  As an aside, the current sea ice extent is about on par with the 1991-2020 long term average as noted with the anomaly information below.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week changed from -0.327 M km² on 03/07/2024 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.0997 M km² on 03/14/2024, inching towards the long-term average level.