Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 18 2014 – 1,500,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 260. Data here.
500,000 sq km higher than 2013’s record.
Amazing.
Category: Antarctic Sea Ice
Antarctic Sea Ice AREA – Day 258 – Sets 3rd All-Time Record In A Row – But Only by 600 sq km
Antarctic Sea Ice Area has now set a 3rd all-time record on 3 days. (difference between Area/Extent here)
The new record for area is 16.47964 million sq km which is 85,000 sq km higher than the previous days record and 240,000 sq km higher than the old 2007 record.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 17 2014 – Amazing – Another 100,000 sq km – Only 85,000 sq km From 20 Million
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 17 2014 – 1,372,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 259. Data here.
5th All-Time Record in 5 days. Skyrocketing toward 20,000,000.
Wow.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 16 2014 – Holy Crap – Another All-Time Record – 4th In A Row
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 16 2014 – 1,273,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 258. Data here.
4th All-Time Record in a row. 240,000 sq km higher than 2013’s record.
Holy Crap … there is a chance of hitting 20,000,000 sq km.
Antarctic Sea Ice AREA Near All-Time Record Too – Day 255 – 29,600 sq km Short of All-Time Record
Update: An all-time record was set the next day
I usually graph Sea Ice Extent. Every once in a while I graph Sea Ice Area.
“A simplified way to think of extent versus area is to imagine a slice of swiss cheese. Extent would be a measure of the edges of the slice of cheese and all of the space inside it. Area would be the measure of where there is cheese only, not including the holes. That is why if you compare extent and area in the same time period, extent is always bigger.”
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/faq/#area_extent
Antarctic Sea Ice Area is within 29,600 sq km of an all time record (which occurred in 2007 at 16.23238 million sq km).
Day 255 is 5th behind 2 days in 2007 and 2 days in 2012.
Chris Beal reminded me.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 15 2014 – Another All-Time Record
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 15 2014 – 1,224,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 257. Data here.
18,000 sq km higher than yesterdays record. And 170,000 sq km higher than 2013’s all-time record.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 14 2014 – Amazing – Another All-Time Record
Update: And another record
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 14 2014 – 1,191,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 256. Data here.
Amazing. Day 256 has broken the day 255 all-time record by 110,000 sq km. And the daily record from 2013 was broken by 230,000 sq km.
History making.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 13 2014 – NEW ALL-TIME RECORD!!!!
Update: A 3rd all-time record has been set
Update: Another record was set the next day.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 13 2014 – 1,121,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 255. Data here.
This is a new All-Time Record. Breaking the record set in 2013 by 48,000 sq km.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 12 2014 – 5th Highest of All-Time – 32,210 sq km From A New All-Time Record
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 12 2014 – 1,030,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 254. Data here.
5th Highest of All-Time – 32,210 sq km From A New Record
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 11 2014 – 14th Highest All-Time – 90,110 sq km To Go
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 11 2014 – 1,017,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 253. Data here.
This is now the 14th Highest All-Time Extent. Only 13 days in 2013 were higher.
Only 90,110 sq km from a new all-time record.
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