Antarctica is only 50,000 sq km from the record for the day. And the Arctic is melting slowly.
A quick update for sea ice extent for day 200 of 2014
- Global Sea Ice Extent is -354,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 23 for the day.
- Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 973,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 2 for the day.
- Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -1,328,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 31 for the day.
NOAA Data here and here here. Graphs below. Click for bigger.
sunshine hours 
AsI mentioned before CT does not want to change it.Maybe you should remind them. The’ve “frozen” the image at the lowest error/
BTW this could be quite a story itself?
CT uses Sea Ice Area data. NSIDC uses Sea Ice Extent data (and I 99% of the time show the extent). Not the same.
OK so it did actually melt.No problem