November 16 2023:  The sea ice has continued to increase, and at a steady rate of 6.01% (up a bit from last week’s rate of 5.64%), from the level on 11/09/2023 of 9.298 M km2 to 9.893 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.396 M km2 on 11/09/2023 to a lesser negative anomaly […]

November 11 2023:  The sea ice has continued to increase, but at a slower rate of 5.64% (down from last week’s rate of 11.68%), from the level on 11/02/2023 of 8.774 M km2 to 9.298 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was greater than the anomaly of -0.343 M km2 on 11/02/2023 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.396 M

November 2 2023:  The sea ice has continued to increase at a significant rate of 11.68% (about equal with last week’s rate), from the level on 10/26/2023 of 7.749 M km2 to 8.774 M km2 for this week.  The negative sea ice anomaly this week was less than the anomaly of -0.723 M km2 on 10/26/2023 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.341 M km2 on 11/02/2023, and so

October 26 2023:  The sea ice has continued to increase, at significant rate of 11.63%, from the level on 10/19/2023 of 6.848 M km2 to 7.749 M km2 for this week.  That is the second pretty good jump in consecutive weeks with increases of 17.54% last week and 11.63% this week.  The negative sea ice anomaly this week was less than

October 19 2023:  The sea ice has continued to increase, at a whopping rate of 17.54%, from the level on 10/12/2023 of 5.647 M km2 to 6.848 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was less than the anomaly of -1.425 M km2 on 10/12/2023. The negative anomaly was -0.930 M km2 on 10/19/2023, and so less anomalously negative for this

October 12 2023:  The sea ice has continued to increase, at a large (but lower than last week) rate of 10.67%, from the level on 10/05/2023 of 5.048 M km2 to 5.647 M km2 for this week.  The negative sea ice anomaly this week was greater than the anomaly of -1.375 M km2 on 10/05/2023 to a greater negative anomaly of -1.425 M

October 5 2023:  The sea ice extent continues to increase, and at a pretty hefty rate of 12.00%, from the level on 09/27/2023 of 4.442 M km2 to 5.048 M km2 for this week.  So, we seem to be past the turnaround point! The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -1.457 M km2 on 09/27/2023 to

September 28 2023:  Sea ice extent has now turned around and had an increase, at the rate of 4.30%, from the level on 09/20/2023 of 4.251 M km2 to 4.442 M km2 for this week.  Preliminary analysis by the NSIDC finds that this years minimum extent occurred on 09/19/2023 at an extent of 4.23 km2 . This is the sixth lowest minimum

September 20 2023:  Over the past 6 days, the sea ice had a very tiny decrease, at the rate of 0.19%, from the level on 09/14/2023 of 4.259 M km2 to 4.251 M km2 for this week.  So, we might be right at the turnaround point.  We are now getting near the point of turnaround from sea ice decrease to increase

September 14 2023:  Over the past week, the sea ice had a decrease, since last week, by a higher rate of 4.46%, from the level on 09/07/2023 of 4.458 M km2 to 4.259 M km2 for this week. The sea ice extent is now at about the 3rd lowest level ever at this time year and about tied with 2018, but still