Arctic Ice still melting

It is still possible that this summer will see even less arctic ice than last year's minimum, but it is going to depend how these next few weeks play out.

Historically the arctic ice minimum occurs during September.

Right now the amount of ice is well below average and is close to last year:




The solid gray line is the historical average ice extent, the dashed green line is last year's, and the solid blue line is for this year.

They also have a daily update of the aerial extent of the ice along with the location of the average ice edge (orange line):



You can get the latest graphs and pictures as well as analysis of this year's melt here:

NSICD Arctic Sea Ice News