Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Aug 13 2014

Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -1,043,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean.

Drifting very slowly away from the standard deviation mark. It is now 300,000 sq km below. A few days ago it was 220,000. But, to be fair, 2 weeks ago it was 500,000 below.

The data is for day 224. Day 245 was the earliest minimum ever. Day 265 was the latest. So 3 to 6 weeks more melting.

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