May 31, 2024:  The  sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a lower rate of 2.53% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 3.21%), from the level on 05/23/2024 of 12.411 M km² to 12.097 M km² for this week.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.173 M km² on 05/23/2024 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.163 M km² on 05/30/2024, and so less anomalously negative for this time of year.