Category: Antarctic Sea Ice

Back on March 10th (which was actually day 68)  I called the Arctic Maximum at 14.595 million sq km. to have occurred on day 53.

From day 53 to day 68 extent had fallen over 300,000 sq km.

Since then Arctic Sea Ice Extent has risen 200,000 sq km to 14.427 million sq km.

Maybe I called it too soon. Maybe not. 1995 and 2010 had late maximums which occurred on day 90. It is only day 75.

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On Day 74 in 1981 Global Sea Ice was 19.1 million sq km. In 2015 on the same day Global Sea Ice was 19.1 million

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The annual view today:

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