September 26, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has now begun to increase this past week at a rate of 4.37%, from the level on 09/11/2024 of 4.284 M km2 to 4.480 M km2 for this week.  The seasonal turnaround to the ice growth season no doubt took some place sometime between Sep 12-17, but we will probably not ever quite know the

September 11, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week but at a lesser rate of 1.72% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 4.78%), from the level on 09/05/2024 of 4.358 M km2 to 4.283 M km2 for this week.  For this time of year, we are now essentially tied for the third lowest amount in the record

September 5, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week but at a slightly greater rate of 4.78% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 4.75%), from the level on 08/29/2024 of 4.577 M km2 to 4.358 M km2 for this week.  For this time of year, we are now essentially still tied for the second lowest amount in

August 29, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week but at a lesser rate of 4.75% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 8.49%), from the level on 08/22/2024 of 4.805 M km2 to 4.577 M km2 for this week.  For this time of year, we are now essentially tied for second lowest amount in the record with

August 22, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week but at a greater rate of 8.49% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 5.23%), from the level on 08/15/2024 of 5.251 M km2 to 4.805 M km2 for this week.  For this time of year, we are now essentially still tied at the 3rd lowest amount in the

August 15, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week but at a lesser rate of 5.23% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 11.22%), from the level on 08/08/2024 of 5.541 M km2 to 5.251 M km2 for this week.  For this time of year, we are now essentially tied at the 3rd lowest amount in the record

August 8, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week and at a greater rate of 11.22% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 8.37%), from the level on 08/01/2024 of 6.241 M km2 to 5.541 M km2 for this week.  For this time of year, we are now essentially tied at the 2nd lowest amount in the record

August 1, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week but at a lesser rate of 8.37% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 10.90%), from the level on 07/25/2024 of 6.811 M km2 to 6.241 M km2 for this week.  For this time of year, we are now tied at the 2nd lowest amount in the record in

July 25, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a greater rate of 10.90% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 10.49%), from the level on 07/17/2024 of 7.644 M km2 to 6.811 M km2 for this week.  This is the second double digit percentage weekly sea ice loss in a row.  After a fairly mundane rate

July 17, 2024:  The Arctic sea ice has continued to decrease this week at a greater rate of 10.49% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 9.17%), from the level on 07/11/2024 of 8.540 M km2 to 7.644 M km2 for this week.  This is the first double digit percentage loss this year. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was higher