May 9, 2024:  The  sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a lower rate of 1.44% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 3.15%), from the level on 05/02/2024 of 13.374 M km² to 13.181 M km² for this week.

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.251 M km² on 05/02/2024 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.0882 M km² on 05/09/2024, and so less anomalously negative for this time of year.