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Environment & Energy

OnlinePoker

(5,722 posts) Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:06 AM Mar 2014

Max extent reached?

Might be a little early to call it, but it looks like the Arctic may have reached maximum extent on 7 March at 14.697 million sq km. It still could expand some more in the next week, but we're just about at then end of the freeze up for the year.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/