Many AGW true believers dismiss “Global Sea Ice” as an unimportant metric. I’m guessing that in a couple of days it will become important to them.

• Global Sea Ice Extent is 164,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 15 for the day.
• Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,550,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 1 for the day.
• Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -1,386,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 33 for the day.

NOAA Data here and here here. Graphs below. Click for bigger.