At the beginning of August JAXA/ViSHOP extent is in a “statistical tie” for 3rd lowest for the date in the satellite era:

Extent has been declining rapidly for the past few days, and further losses look likely in the Beaufort Sea on either side of an arm of high concentration ice visible in the Alfred Wegener Institute’s map of sea ice concenration:

The ice on the Atlantic side of the Arctic is starting to look highly fragmented, all the way to the North Pole.

The PIOMAS gridded thickness data for July 2025 has just been released. The Beaufort arm is also visible as an area of thicker ice. There is also a parallel arm of ice around a meter thick extending into the East Siberian Sea:

The associated volume graph reveals a modelled Arctic sea ice volume of 6.57 thousand km³ on July 31st, which is 2nd lowest for the date:

Watch this space!