May 25 2023:  Over the past week, the sea ice had a decrease, since last week, by a higher rate of 3.04%, from the level on 05/18/2023 of 12.787 M km² to 12.398 M km² for this week.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was slightly lower than the anomaly of -0.317 M km² on 05/18/2023 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.391 M km² on 05/25/2023 and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.