Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 46 – 2017

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Oscillations.

The following graph is just for day 46 back to 1979. The interesting thing is how the oscillation from high to low is increasing in amplitude.

(The blue arrow is speculative)

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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 38 – 2017

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If Antarctic continues the way it has, Day 37 would be the record for earliest minimum.

1994 is the current record holder on day 43.

1997 is the record holder for lowest minimum – 121,000 sq km below 2017 (which is 5th lowest so far).

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