November 17, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has continued to increase but at a lower rate from last week, of 4.28%, from the level on 11/10/2022 of 9.370 M km² to 9.789 M km² for this week. 

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was greater than the anomaly of -0.943 M km² on 11/10/2022 to a more negative anomaly of -0.999 M km² on 11/17/2022 and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.