{"id":2759,"date":"2025-03-13T00:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/the-2025-maximum-arctic-sea-ice-extent\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:37:09","slug":"the-2025-maximum-arctic-sea-ice-extent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/the-2025-maximum-arctic-sea-ice-extent\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Maximum Arctic Sea Ice Extent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The time has arrived to start taking a close look at the assorted different Arctic sea ice extent metrics, in order to ascertain their respective maxima for 2025. To begin with here\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zacklabe.com\/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zack Labe\u2019s overview<\/a>\u00a0of previous years\u2019 maxima:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jaxa_seaice_recordmax_2025-03-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34103\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jaxa_seaice_recordmax_2025-03-10-1024x683-1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jaxa_seaice_recordmax_2025-03-10-1024x683-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jaxa_seaice_recordmax_2025-03-10-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jaxa_seaice_recordmax_2025-03-10-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jaxa_seaice_recordmax_2025-03-10-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jaxa_seaice_recordmax_2025-03-10-2048x1365.png 2048w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It now seems highly likely that 2025\u2019s maximum extent will ultimately prove to be the lowest in the satellite era. The remaining question is when this year\u2019s maximum will occur.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/2025\/03\/facts-about-the-arctic-in-march-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speculation yesterday<\/a> that AWI\u2019s flavour of Arctic sea ice extent had already achieved its maximum value for 2025 has been negated today:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AWI-Arctic-Extent-2025-03-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34104\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AWI-Arctic-Extent-2025-03-11-1024x512-1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AWI-Arctic-Extent-2025-03-11-1024x512-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AWI-Arctic-Extent-2025-03-11-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AWI-Arctic-Extent-2025-03-11-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/greatwhitecon.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AWI-Arctic-Extent-2025-03-11.png 1500w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The NSIDC 5 day average and JAXA extent metrics are also currently at their maximum levels for the year so far, so let\u2019s wait and see which one is the first to take a downward turn.<\/p>\n<p>To be continued<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has arrived to start taking a close look at the assorted different Arctic sea ice extent metrics, in order to ascertain their respective maxima for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}