September 22, 2022: over the past week, the sea ice has now increased by a rate from last week of 3.70%, from the level on 09/15/2022 of
4.657 M km² to 4.836 M km² for this week.  It turns out that the sea ice bottomed out only one day after last week’s report on 09/16/2022 with the final minimum sea ice extent level of 4.650 M km²); the turnaround day in 2021 was one day earlier (09/15/2021) and it is pretty interesting how similar the 2022 and 2021 sea ice seasons were, with 2022 season being slightly lower overall.

The the negative sea ice anomaly this week was greater from the anomaly of -1.538 M km² on 09/15/2022 to a more negative anomaly of -1.558 M km² on 09/22/2022 and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.