Update: A 3rd all-time record has been set
Update: Another record was set the next day.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 13 2014 – 1,121,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 255. Data here.
This is a new All-Time Record. Breaking the record set in 2013 by 48,000 sq km.
sunshine hours 
We still have at least 15 days to go before the “warming starts”. I think many more records will be broken!!
Yes indeed. Last year a record was set on day 257 and then again on 264, 271 and 273.
Yes sir! It’s pretty early on to be calling this the peak. Plenty of time yet.
At the same time day 255 produced a new Arctic minimum.
Day 255 shows a major drop of almost 57,000 KM2, resulting in a new NH minimum of 5.40 M Km2, 34.7% of the March Maximum.
Losses occurred in all regions except Beaufort and Greenland Seas, including new minimums in Chukchi, East Siberian, Kara and Canadian Archipelago.
Region Date Reported Ann Min %of Max
(0) Northern_Hemisphere 2014255 5393757 34.7%
(1) Beaufort_Sea 2014246 704681 65.8%
(2) Chukchi_Sea 2014255 269017 27.8%
(3) East_Siberian_Sea 2014255 502214 46.2%
(4) Laptev_Sea 2014253 1795 0.2%
(5) Kara_Sea 2014255 80524 8.6%
(6) Barents_Sea 2014248 121208 16.5%
(7) Greenland_Sea 2014252 162018 21.3%
(8) Baffin_Bay_Gulf_of_St._Lawrence 2014230 9776 0.5%
(9) Canadian_Archipelago 2014255 461197 54.1%
(10) Hudson_Bay 2014255 10409 0.8%
(11) Central_Arctic 2014250 2968800 91.4%
Your claims that day 255 was a new arctic minimum appears false, see: http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm however overall the trend appears to support steadily decreasing arctic sea ice extent.
Blog Owner Note: Apologies. I meant 2014 is approaching a minimum. I did not mean an all-time minimum.
Ron is interested in MASIE data. There are multiple datasets for Arctic Sea Ice. Jaxa is different from NSIDC and different from MASIE.
I don’t see a new Arctic minimum at any of the following sites:
Climate4U
NSIDC
Jaxa
DMI
Nansen
Cryosphere Today
I think there is some confusion and I apologize.
It would be a new minimum for 2014 I was discussing. Not an All-Time Minimum. It is a long, long way from the 2012 minimum.
Reblogged this on Canadian Climate Guy.
When records cease to be broken the warming establishment will jump on it and say they’re being proved right…
What does the total (both hemispheres) figure look like?
Slightly above the mean.
https://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/global-sea-ice-extent-sep-13-2014-23000-sq-km-above-normal/
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Must be global warming. Why anyone could be aware of this and still worry anything CO2 is beyond comprehension. The heaters must ignore
anythi.g that doesn’t fit.
Congratulations!