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If you graph the Arctic Sea Ice Extent anomaly % from the 30 year mean, 2013 has stabilized at -15%, above the -30% of 2011 and well above the -45% of 2012.

 

The difference between 2012 and 2013 is quite dramatic if you graph the anomaly % from the 30 year mean.

Until day 175 or so, the anomaly was only around -5% or so (note that the anomaly actually went positive for a few days in 2012).

While 2013 was later, both started drifting down. 2013 has stabilized at -15%. At this time last year 2012 was -30%.

Warmists must be so sad.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Higher Than 2005 According to DMI

The red line is 2005. The thick black line is 2013.

UPDATE and Apology: The headline said Antarctic. The blog post said Arctic. I rushed. Sorry. This blog post is about the Arctic.

On this day in 2012, the Arctic Sea Ice Extent Anomaly from the 1981-2010 mean was 2.3 million sq km. Thats 31% below “normal”.

In 2013, the anomaly is now 1.07 million sq km – only 14.5% below normal.

After Arctic Mean Temperature almost going below 0 a week ago, DMI now shows a big drop.

Yesterdays Sea Ice from DMI:

The following graph is the mean of Arctic sea ice extent up to day 219 for each year.