May 23, 2024:  The  sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a higher rate of 3.21% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 2.72%), from the level on 05/16/2024 of 12.822 M km² to 12.411 M km² for this week.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.0965 M km² on 05/16/2024 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.173 M km² on 05/23/2024, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.