So far in 2014, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1.15 million sq km above 2013 and 1.54 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
More remarkably it is only 400,000 sq km below the extraordinary high extent that occurred at a similar period in 2008.
Extent has been more than two standard deviations above the mean since Dec 26 2013 and one standard deviation above the mean since May 29 2013.
sunshine hours 
Do you mind including a source for the data? it gives it a bit more credibility then only linking to a blog (not meant to offend, just strengthen my argument).
The Antarctic data is here: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data
Just change south to north for Arctic.