May 2, 2024:  The  sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a higher rate of 3.15% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 1.95%), from the level on 04/25/2024 of 13.809 M km² to 13.374 M km² for this week.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was greater than the anomaly of -0.156 M km² on 04/24/2024 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.251 M km² on 05/02/2024, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.