Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,110,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is the 133rd daily record for the year.
An interesting note: Both 2013 (black line) and 2012 (orange line) set all time maximum records … yet were 900,000 sq km apart at this day.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is now melting at a relatively “normal” rate.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,096,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,107,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
After dropping 90,000 sq km two days ago, ice extent rose 100,000 sq km the next day.
131 daily records in 2014. And 209 out of 209 in the top 5.
Year First Second Third Fourth Fifth Top 5 2014 131 33 16 28 1 209
Update: Arctic/Antarctic have appeared. MASIE is still one day old.
Normally the NSIDC Sea Ice Data is posted on their site at 6:51am Pacific Time.
Some days it is late or isn’t updated until the next day.
The MASIE data gets updated about 7:17am Pacific. It was updated … but it the previous days data.
2014 Day 208 … Global Sea Ice is still normal. For this day, the lowest Global Sea Ice was in 2011 and 2014 is now 1,500,000 sq km higher than 2011.
July 28 2014 MASIE Update
The top graph just shows the Central Arctic … and shows 4 days in a row of freezing. The Central Arctic has 3.2 million sq km out of 7.8 million sq km left for the whole Northern Hemisphere.
The 2nd graph shows 2 days of freezing for the whole Northern Hemisphere … about 30,000 sq km net total freezing. (When I use the term freezing I mean more ice. It could be wind moving the ice around too)
The graphs have different scales.
Data here. Click for bigger.
| Region | 121 days ago | End | Last 120 | Last 28 | Last 14 | Last 7 | Last 3 | Last 1 |
| Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1,688,530 | 82,623 | -1,605,908 | -457,782 | -80,285 | -58,263 | -20,616 | -2,124 |
| Hudson Bay | 1,260,903 | 200,454 | -1,060,449 | -614,568 | -206,510 | -78,954 | 9,293 | -1,182 |
| Chukchi Sea | 966,006 | 641,806 | -324,200 | -103,665 | -9,047 | -5,570 | 13,239 | 0 |
| East Siberian Sea | 1,087,137 | 990,921 | -96,217 | -36,503 | 17,263 | -17,514 | 14,910 | 0 |
| Laptev Sea | 897,845 | 341,083 | -556,761 | -290,827 | -82,700 | -36,438 | -5,488 | 0 |
| Kara Sea | 933,859 | 404,649 | -529,211 | -387,393 | -250,763 | -97,913 | -33,492 | 0 |
| Barents Sea | 645,917 | 79,847 | -566,070 | -98,773 | -18,726 | -10,705 | -2,398 | 0 |
| Bering Sea | 697,324 | 15 | -697,308 | -15,501 | -8,643 | -1,323 | 0 | 0 |
| Baltic Sea | 15,337 | 0 | -15,337 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sea of Okhotsk | 853,240 | 0 | -853,240 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow Sea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Beaufort Sea | 1,070,445 | 832,532 | -237,913 | -92,230 | -8,058 | 6,114 | 14,784 | 782 |
| Canadian Archipelago | 853,214 | 687,588 | -165,626 | -63,792 | -41,190 | -21,383 | -6,888 | 3,914 |
| Central Arctic | 3,221,921 | 3,209,107 | -12,815 | -24,789 | 6,856 | 7,042 | 17,737 | 4,332 |
| Greenland Sea | 603,416 | 369,278 | -234,138 | -154,382 | -68,624 | -40,760 | 18,619 | 12,491 |
| Northern Hemisphere (Total) | 14,805,115 | 7,841,045 | -6,964,070 | -2,340,592 | -750,426 | -355,666 | 19,701 | 18,212 |
| NH (Average Loss per Day) | -57,554 | -83,593 | -53,602 | -50,809 | 6,567 | 18,212 |
July 28 2014 – Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,072,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
A drop today. But that isn’t unusual. 2013 (black line) went up and down all the way to an all-time record.
July 27 2014 MASIE Update – A Day of Freeze and Melt Ending Up 11,694 sq km Higher
Data here. The tiny blue bar at the far right is the net freeze for day 207.
| Region | 120 days ago | End | Last 119 | Last 28 | Last 14 | Last 7 | Last 3 | Last 1 |
| Laptev Sea | 897,845 | 341,083 | -556,761 | -306,590 | -80,671 | -49,872 | -7,452 | -12,035 |
| Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1,688,530 | 84,746 | -1,603,784 | -566,356 | -78,169 | -61,810 | -26,933 | -4,648 |
| Canadian Archipelago | 853,214 | 683,675 | -169,540 | -72,204 | -45,104 | -26,511 | -11,039 | -1,766 |
| Kara Sea | 933,859 | 404,649 | -529,211 | -393,782 | -267,128 | -123,292 | -35,537 | -1,116 |
| Beaufort Sea | 1,070,445 | 831,750 | -238,695 | -108,217 | -8,839 | -4,891 | 15,282 | 0 |
| Chukchi Sea | 966,006 | 641,806 | -324,200 | -103,305 | -9,047 | -6,753 | 13,784 | 0 |
| East Siberian Sea | 1,087,137 | 990,921 | -96,217 | -37,414 | 17,263 | -22,088 | 4,073 | 0 |
| Barents Sea | 645,917 | 79,847 | -566,070 | -102,085 | -18,726 | -19,241 | -6,450 | 0 |
| Bering Sea | 697,324 | 15 | -697,308 | -19,927 | -8,643 | -772 | 0 | 0 |
| Baltic Sea | 15,337 | 0 | -15,337 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sea of Okhotsk | 853,240 | 0 | -853,240 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow Sea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Greenland Sea | 603,416 | 356,787 | -246,629 | -162,666 | -75,930 | -62,983 | 1,397 | 8,887 |
| Central Arctic | 3,221,921 | 3,204,775 | -17,146 | -29,121 | 1,360 | 122 | 15,135 | 10,794 |
| Hudson Bay | 1,260,903 | 201,636 | -1,059,268 | -634,988 | -264,187 | -95,448 | -18,124 | 11,578 |
| Northern Hemisphere (Total) | 14,805,115 | 7,822,833 | -6,982,282 | -2,537,040 | -837,820 | -473,539 | -55,865 | 11,694 |
| NH (Average Loss per Day) | -58,186 | -90,609 | -59,844 | -67,648 | -18,622 | 11,694 |
DMI says summer is almost over. And by summer I mean the short period when average temperature is above 0C.
Red is the temperature for 2014. Green is the mean for all previous years. Blue is the 0C line.
It could be the shortest arctic summer ever.
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