A quick update for sea ice extent for day 152 of 2014:
NOAA Data here and here here. Graphs below. Click for bigger. 
UPDATE: Sorry about the title. Not sure what happened. Fixed now.
The AMO is definitely linked with climate cycles. And probably has more to do with Arctic Sea Ice than any other factor. This is loess trend of each month of the AMO on the same graph.
The winter months started trending down around 2005/2008. Spring months have been flattish since the same time. Only July-Sept have stayed high. June has been flat.
The first four months of 2014 were all negative.
Same graph, but from 1856 and 1979. The spread in months now seems to be repeating the pattern way back in 1856. But that could be an endpoint artifact.
Same graphs, but the data and the trends.
A quick update for sea ice extent for day 151 of 2014:
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Yes there was an Arctic Sea Ice Extent Tipping Point.
It was 2006.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent For this Day from 1979
Arctic Sea Ice Extent For this Day from 2006
May 31 2014 MASIE Update
This is the gain/loss up to day 150. Negative = loss. Sorted with biggest loser in last 7 days at top. Northern Hemisphere is the grand total.
While melting resumed in many regions over the last one day, over the last 3 days daily melt was only -9,229 sq km per day.
The Greenland Sea continues to climb.
| Region | Start | End | Last 62 | Last 28 | Last 14 | Last 7 | Last 3 | Last 1 |
| Greenland Sea | 603,416 | 655,024 | 51,609 | 4,140 | -90 | -106,985 | 18,233 | 13,181 |
| Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1,688,530 | 1,103,619 | -584,912 | -245,220 | -69,982 | -80,040 | 36,442 | -7,578 |
| Barents Sea | 645,917 | 397,108 | -248,810 | -267,741 | -108,359 | -50,858 | -27,296 | -23,217 |
| Laptev Sea | 897,845 | 818,855 | -78,990 | -78,990 | -74,487 | -25,700 | -10,619 | -7,430 |
| Canadian Archipelago | 853,214 | 810,271 | -42,943 | -42,943 | -23,912 | -15,090 | -4,928 | -3,406 |
| Kara Sea | 933,859 | 869,825 | -64,034 | -65,198 | -44,437 | -14,481 | -19,292 | -9,079 |
| Chukchi Sea | 966,006 | 903,001 | -63,005 | -49,419 | -23,794 | -11,676 | -15,364 | -6,480 |
| Sea of Okhotsk | 853,240 | 72,328 | -780,912 | -172,684 | -34,867 | -8,824 | -608 | 1,685 |
| Bering Sea | 697,324 | 110,295 | -587,029 | -259,246 | -112,201 | -7,340 | -4,777 | -5,541 |
| Central Arctic | 3,221,921 | 3,241,348 | 19,427 | -6,665 | -5,400 | -5,418 | -2,634 | -290 |
| Hudson Bay | 1,260,903 | 1,225,457 | -35,446 | -25,002 | 6,010 | -5,232 | -5,008 | -6,607 |
| Beaufort Sea | 1,070,445 | 1,066,643 | -3,802 | -3,802 | 16,656 | -495 | 539 | -280 |
| Baltic Sea | 15,337 | 0 | -15,337 | -8,219 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow Sea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Siberian Sea | 1,087,137 | 1,034,287 | -52,850 | -52,850 | -52,850 | 13,387 | 7,625 | 248 |
| Northern Hemisphere (Total) | 14,805,115 | 12,309,541 | -2,495,574 | -1,274,566 | -527,729 | -318,446 | -27,687 | -54,792 |
| NH (Average Loss per Day) | -39,612 | -45,520 | -37,695 | -45,492 | -9,229 | -54,792 |
A quick update for sea ice extent for day 149 of 2014:
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A quick update for sea ice extent for day 147 of 2014:
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A quick update for sea ice extent for day 146 of 2014:
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May 25 2014 MASIE Update
This is the gain/loss up to day 144. Negative = loss. Sorted with biggest loser in last 7 days at top. Northern Hemisphere is the grand total.
I’ve added a “NH (Average Loss per Day)” line to the bottom of the table. The interesting figure is that even though a lot of ice melted over the last 1 day, very little melted over the last 3 days: -7,232/day
| Region | Start | End | Last 56 | Last 28 | Last 14 | Last 7 | Last 3 | Last 1 |
| Barents Sea | 645,917 | 426,330 | -219,587 | -197,492 | -161,324 | -69,343 | -5,468 | -21,635 |
| East Siberian Sea | 1,087,137 | 1,020,900 | -66,237 | -66,237 | -66,237 | -66,237 | -9,601 | 0 |
| Bering Sea | 697,324 | 116,770 | -580,554 | -348,719 | -187,839 | -50,274 | 4,780 | -866 |
| Laptev Sea | 897,845 | 844,555 | -53,290 | -53,290 | -48,104 | -48,787 | -8,963 | 0 |
| Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1,688,530 | 1,159,590 | -528,941 | -348,384 | -82,592 | -40,205 | -29,385 | -24,069 |
| Sea of Okhotsk | 853,240 | 68,004 | -785,236 | -330,041 | -74,417 | -36,163 | -13,934 | -13,148 |
| Kara Sea | 933,859 | 877,476 | -56,383 | -57,547 | -49,337 | -35,799 | -9,626 | -6,829 |
| Chukchi Sea | 966,006 | 914,677 | -51,329 | -51,329 | -38,707 | -14,015 | -2,244 | 0 |
| Canadian Archipelago | 853,214 | 823,129 | -30,085 | -30,085 | -9,967 | -10,396 | 1,002 | -2,232 |
| Baltic Sea | 15,337 | 0 | -15,337 | -8,172 | -8,065 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow Sea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Central Arctic | 3,221,921 | 3,246,766 | 24,844 | -1,247 | -1,247 | 18 | 72 | 0 |
| Beaufort Sea | 1,070,445 | 1,069,505 | -940 | -940 | -940 | 16,478 | 4,165 | 2,367 |
| Hudson Bay | 1,260,903 | 1,235,572 | -25,331 | -25,331 | 15,864 | 18,058 | 3,072 | 4,883 |
| Greenland Sea | 603,416 | 736,975 | 133,559 | 94,070 | 136,343 | 29,406 | 44,112 | -25,034 |
| Northern Hemisphere (Total) | 14,805,115 | 12,541,745 | -2,263,370 | -1,425,454 | -576,650 | -306,971 | -21,697 | -86,242 |
| NH (Average Loss per Day) | -39,708 | -50,909 | -41,189 | -43,853 | -7,232 | -86,242 |
A quick update for sea ice extent for day 144 of 2014:
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