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The August numbers September 6, 2018 7:58 am ER

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2018/09/Figure_3-350×270.png

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Yeah, yeah, I know. This August’s melt isn’t anywhere near as severe as the record years of 2012 and 2007, but the overall trend of sea ice extent for the last 40-odd years is still a loss of about 1%/yr.

Early in October, Watch this space for the September numbers–the month Arctic sea ice extent bottoms out.

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iqr_timeseries.png

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