http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Arctic sea ice extent for May 2015 averaged 12.65 million square kilometers (4.88 million square miles), the third lowest May ice extent in the satellite record. This is 730,000 square kilometers (282,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 long-term average of 13.38 million square kilometers (5.17 million square miles) and 70,000 square kilometers (27,000 square miles) above the record low for the month, observed in 2004.
Please click underlined text for graphics, or cut and paste the links yourself. For some reason, the Lord of the Web would not let me link directly to the pictures today. Take the time, and compare for yourself how this year compares with the record low ice year of 2012.
Although there is much more ice volume in the Arctic this year than there was in 2012, the ice extent is substantially less. Whether this pattern will carry through to the Big Melt in September remains to be seen. The low ice record is broken in the arctic, on the average, every five years. We’re about due for another one.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2015/06/asina_N_stddev_timeseries-350×280.png
Through 2015, the linear rate of decline for May extent is 2.33% per decade.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2015/06/monthly_ice_NH_05-350×270.png
