[Tanada]

By what can only be called a coincidence data from NSIDC shows that the Arctic Sea Ice Maximum for 2022 was on 2/25/2022 the same day of the Antarctic new record minimum.
In the Arctic case this years max is just above the trend line for 2011-2020 so is well within the statistical noise of the recent past. It is higher, but not anywhere near a record high with satellite measurement showing 14,875,000 km^2 extent.
NSIDC Arctic default chart

Using the same chart the all time Satellite extent record was set on 3/2/1979 and clocked in with 16,593,000 km^2 sea ice. At this point there is no significant down trend yet in evidence so guessing a minimum for 2022 would be pure speculation.

[Tanada]

https://nsidc.org/data/tools/arctic-sea-ice-chart/

For the last two months we have been at or below the average numbers for this time of year.

[Newfie]

Thanks for posting.

[JuanP]

The latest NSIDC report is out:
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

"Average Arctic Sea ice extent for May 2022 was 12.88 million square kilometers (4.97 million square miles) (Figure 1). This was 410,000 square kilometers (158,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average, yet it was the highest May extent since 2013. As was the case for April, sea ice extent was slow to decline, losing only 1.28 million square kilometers (494,000 square miles) during the month. Ice loss in May occurred primarily in the Bering Sea, the Barents Sea, and within Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. However, several openings, or polynyas, in the pack ice have started to form, particularly within the eastern Beaufort Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Laptev Sea, and around Franz Joseph Land in the northern Barents Sea. Ice also started to pull back from the shores of Russia in the Kara Sea. In Hudson Bay, the ice started to melt out in the south within James Bay and off of Southampton Island in the north. Overall, the daily sea ice extent tracked within the interdecile range (encompassing 90 percent of the 1981 to 2010 daily values) for much of the month. By the end of the month, extent was close to the sea ice extent observed in late May 2012."

Right now, the artic sea ice extent is very slightly below the same date in 2012 (essentially the same), the year of the all-time low. But, of course, we are talking about much thinner ice.

[Tanada]

Average Arctic sea ice extent for May 2022 was 12.88 million square kilometers (4.97 million square miles) (Figure 1). This was 410,000 square kilometers (158,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average, yet it was the highest May extent since 2013. As was the case for April, sea ice extent was slow to decline, losing only 1.28 million square kilometers (494,000 square miles) during the month. Ice loss in May occurred primarily in the Bering Sea, the Barents Sea, and within Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. However, several openings, or polynyas, in the pack ice have started to form, particularly within the eastern Beaufort Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Laptev Sea, and around Franz Joseph Land in the northern Barents Sea. Ice also started to pull back from the shores of Russia in the Kara Sea. In Hudson Bay, the ice started to melt out in the south within James Bay and off of Southampton Island in the north. Overall, the daily sea ice extent tracked within the interdecile range (encompassing 90 percent of the 1981 to 2010 daily values) for much of the month. By the end of the month, extent was close to the sea ice extent observed in late May 2012.

NSIDC