The 22nd daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in 2014 was set yesterday on Feb 8 (Day 39). The old record was from 2008.
The old record was broken by 78,260 sq km. Sea Ice is 807,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
I’ve added the 2008 Highest Minimum point to this graph. (But it isn’t looking as good for a new record now). Data is here. Click for bigger.
The 17th daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in 2014 was set yesterday on Feb 3 (Day 34).
The old record was broken by 290,000 sq km. Sea Ice is 980,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Thats 28.65%.
And WOW …. I know this is probably just an aberration (but it isn’t a normal time so who knows) but extent only fell 3230 sq km from day 33 to 34. Normally at this time of year extent falls around 40,000-100,000 sq km per day.
Caveat: the raw data has 0.00058 sq km in the missing column (which is usually 0). Not sure what that means, but that is only 580 sq km.
I’ve added the 2008 Highest Minimum point to this graph. Data is here. Click for bigger.
The 16th daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in 2014 was set yesterday on Feb 2 (Day 33). For the first time this year the old record was from 2012, not 2008. 2012 did not have a high minimum, but did go on to set a new all time record at maximum (which was broken in 2013).
The old record was broken by 240,000 sq km. Sea Ice is 904,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Thats 25.76% above the 1981-2010 mean.
I’ve added the 2008 Highest Minimum point to this graph. Data is here. Click for bigger.
The 14th daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in 2014 was set yesterday on Jan 31 (Day 31). The old record was from 2008.
The old record was broken by 159,750 sq km. Sea Ice is 913,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
I’ve added the 2008 Highest Minimum point to this graph Data is here. Click for bigger.
The 11th daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in 2014 was set yesterday on Jan 22 (Day 22). The old record was from 2008.
The old record was broken by 184,000 sq km. Sea Ice is 940,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Data is here. Click for bigger.
The 7th daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in 2014 was set yesterday on Jan 24 (Day 24). The old record was from 2008.
The old record was broken by 85,000 sq km. Sea Ice is 1.12 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Data is here. Click for bigger.
The 5th daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in 2014 was set yesterday on Jan 22 (Day 22). The old record was from 2008.
The old record was broken by 100,000 sq km. Sea Ice is 1.2 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Data is here. Click for bigger.
The 4th daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in 2014 was set yesterday on Jan 21 (Day 21). The old record was from 2008.
The old record was broken by 19,000 sq km. Sea Ice is 1.15 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Data is here. Click for bigger.
November 16th 2013 (Day 320) saw the 50th Daily Record for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in a row! It was also the 104th daily record for 2013.
I thought this graph would show 2013 below the 2010 line, but melting slowed from 150,000 sq km per day to 80,000 sq km and then 20,000 sq km per day in the last 2 days.
| Year | No of Records |
| 2008 | 123 |
| 2013 | 104 |
| 2010 | 92 |
| 2007 | 21 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 |
| 1979 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 |
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