3rd Highest Antarctic Sea Ice For This Day – 1.2 million above the 1981-2010 mean. – Above 2 standard deviation.
12th Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Above the 1981-2010 mean.
Arctic within 82,000 of 1 standard deviation – Tied with 2005 for this day.



MASIE shows this year’s Arctic extent exceeds 2014 at this date. I also note that the DMI figure is exactly the same as MASIE for day 183. Since when did these two datasets sync so closely?
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/arctic-ice-watch-july-5-builds-lead-on-2014/