The most recent data is day 258.
| Year | Day of Year | Ice Area (millions of sq km) |
| 2007 | 263 | 16.2323818 |
| 2007 | 264 | 16.2156487 |
| 2007 | 265 | 16.1711521 |
| 2007 | 266 | 16.1504288 |
| 2007 | 267 | 16.1177235 |
| 2012 | 258 | 16.1003437 |
| 2012 | 257 | 16.0984936 |
| 2007 | 262 | 16.0848694 |
| 2007 | 268 | 16.0605392 |
| 2012 | 256 | 16.0570793 |
| 2010 | 227 | 16.0503387 |
| 2000 | 253 | 16.0354385 |
| 2007 | 256 | 16.0280628 |
| 2007 | 272 | 16.0231705 |
| 2010 | 226 | 16.0212231 |
| 2012 | 255 | 16.0202618 |
| 2012 | 254 | 16.0092392 |
| 2010 | 228 | 16.0086727 |
sunshine hours 
The Antarctic sea ice “anomaly”is simply a question of size .If you place a whole ice cube in a glass of warm water it will cool the water around it as it melts,but if you put 1/9th of an ice cube in a similar glass of warm water the water will simply melt the ice.Antarctica is nine times the size of the arctic,hence the anomaly.Don’t be a King Canute crying”it’s not happening”as you are carried away in a deluge of climate change.
Antarctic Sea is now over 16,000,000 sq km. Antarctica itself is only 14,000,000 sq km.
In your blog,you were comparing world reactions to the Arctic not being balanced by the apparent opposite effect in the antarctic.My analogy of the ice cubes in glasses of warm water was to explain the antarctic response to climate change compared to the arctic which is nine times the size of the latter.
Antarctic Sea is now over 16,000,000 sq km. Antarctica itself is only 14,000,000 sq km.
Maximum Arctic Ice was up slightly this year and hit 98% of the 80s average for weeks. Sea surface temperatures are warmer thanks to the AMO. And in the summer daytime temperatures + higher SST lead to more melting.
But in the winter, slightly higher SST cannot fight -25C temperatures so ice maximum has barely changed in the Arctic.
When the AMO goes negative soon, and it will, ice will recover.
But, Antarctic Ice (according to AGW theory) was supposed to decline.