Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has risen for three days in a row. It rose 13,000 sq km and then 7,000 sq km and then 13,000 sq km. Day 51 is potentially to be the minimum, but is still too early to call.
Extent is 653,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean which is 22.5%.
A slightly different view today. Only 10 days on each size of Day 54. Click for bigger.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has risen for two days in a row. It rose 13,000 sq km and then 7,000 sq km. So day 51 is now potentially the minimum.
Extent is 636,000 sq km above the 1981-201 mean which is 22%.
A quick update for sea ice extent:
Data here. Graphs below. Click for bigger.
DMI says it is getting colder in the Arctic. 15C colder. Yes, it is still higher than average. (Green is the mean)
A few days ago the Arctic was lowest for the day. Now it is 4th lowest.
A quick update for sea ice extent:
Data here. Graphs below. Click for bigger.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 672,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Which is 23% above the mean.
From day 48 to day 49 extent fell by 22,000 sq km. Extent is still 16,000 sq km higher than day 46.
So day 46 could still turn out to be the day of the minimum Antarctic Sea Ice Extent for 2014. But it could still fall below that.
Data is here. Click for bigger.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 697,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Which is 23.9% above the mean. (Lots of people hate me using the term “normal”).
The mean for day 48 is 2.91 million sq km. Sea Ice Extent for day 48 is 3.61 million sq km.
From day 47 to day 48 extent fell by 27,000 sq km. From day 46 to 47 extent actually rose by 64,000 sq km (I mistakenly said 38,000 yesterday).
So day 46 could turn out to be the day of the minimum Antarctic Sea Ice Extent for 2014. But it could still fall below that. No predictions from me.
Data is here. Click for bigger.
A quick update for sea ice extent:
Data here. Graphs below. Click for bigger.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent won’t be breaking the record set in 2008 for highest minimum. Extent is already 40,000 sq km below the record.
Extent is still 673,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent only dropped 5960 sq km from day 43 to day 44. Which brings it to within 9310 sq km of the 2008 record for highest minimum. That means at least one more day with the chance of a new record occurring. Maybe two. It isn’t impossible for this to be minimum, just unlikely. The earliest minimum was day 43 in 1996.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is still 702,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean, which is 23.4% above the mean.
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