September 29, 2022: over the past week, the sea ice has continued to increase by a greater rate from last week of 5.69%, from the level on 09/22/2022 of 4.836 M km2 to 5.128 M km2 for this week, and so we are now solidly (no pun intended) in the sea ice growth season.

Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).
The negative sea ice anomaly this week was greater from the anomaly of -1.558 M km2 on 09/22/2022 to a more negative anomaly of -1.657 M km2 on 09/29/2022 and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.

Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).