September 3, 2025: (Only six days since the last post) the Arctic sea ice has experienced a lesser decrease rate for this week of 2.95% (last week’s decrease rate was 5.48%), from the level on 08/28/2025 of 4.809 M km² to 4.667 M km² for this week.  The sea ice extent for 2025 to date remains in 10th place for the lowest sea ice extent for this day of the year as noted below when the lowest sea ice extent was at 3.562 M km² on 09/03/2012.

2012    3.562
2020    4.041
2024    4.290
2016    4.310
2019    4.359
2007    4.450
2023    4.498
2015    4.509
2011    4.527
2025    4.667

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.98266 M km² on 08/28/2025 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.90148  M km² on 09/03/2025, and so less anomalously negative for this time of year.