September 8, 2022: Over the past week, the sea ice has now decreased by a lower rate from last week of 3.48%, from the level on 09/01/2022 of 5.026 M km2 to 4.851 M km2 for this week. Perhaps the slow-up of the past couple of weeks is a harbinger that we are really close to bottoming out for the year. At this point we are now just below the 2021 sea ice extent level (4.893 M km2) for the same day in 2021, and so it will continue to be interesting to see what goes on over the next couple of weeks.

Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).
The negative sea ice anomaly this week was greater from the anomaly of -1.314 M km2 on 09/01/2022 to a more negative anomaly of -1.335 M km2 on 09/08/2022 and so more anomalously negative for this time of year.

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