May 8, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has experienced a smaller decrease for this week of 2.76% (last week’s decrease rate was 3.53%), from the level on 05/01/2025 of 13.409 M km2 to 13.039 M km2 for this week.
Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).
The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher than the anomaly of -0.2665 M km2 on 05/01/2025 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.2812 M km2 on 05/08/2025, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.
Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).