Are you trying to draw attention away from Trump's third plane crash? But, I digress; warm is relative, but it's melting the ice. The Bering is blue, colder than normal.
NSIDC ARCTIC SEA ICE AREA (5-day trailing average): 11,557,241 KM2 as at 05-Feb-2025
- Area loss on this day 76k, which is 89 k less than the average gain on this day (of the last 10 years) of 13k,
- Area gain from minimum on this date is 9,045 k, which is 360k km2, 3.8% less than the 10 year average of 9,406 k.
- Area is at position #1 in the satellite record (#1=lowest),
- Area is 736 k LESS than 2024,
- Area is 854 k LESS than 2023,
- Area is 1,184 k LESS than 2022,
- Area is 1,143 k LESS than 2020,
- Area is 572 k LESS than 2017
- Area is 1,986 k LESS than the 1980’s Average
- Area is 857 k LESS than the 2010's Average
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On average 94.2% of Area gains from minimum to maximum done, and 33 days to the average date of the maximum
Projections. (Table NSIDC-Arctic-Area-1)
Average remaining Area gain (of the last 10 years) would produce a maximum in March 2025 of 12.14 million km2, 0.59 million km2 below the March 2016 record low maximum of 12.72 million km2, and 1st lowest in the 47 year satellite record.
For the 2025 maximum to be above the current record low of 2016, sea ice area gain from now needs to be double the average of the last 10 years (101% above), which has not been achieved in the last 20 years.
2025 Arctic Sea ice area & extent data - page 2 - Arctic sea ice - Arctic Sea Ice : Forum (arctic-sea-ice.net)
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