Robert Grumbine's NOAA sea ice site has not been updated over the last few
days while, AFAIK, the hardware is being serviced. As a result, my web pages
where you can compare the current Arctic ice with that over the last five
years has not been working properly. I have made a temporary fix, so that if
you select any day this year you will get the current map from FNMOC (US
Navy). To see this go to
http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/north.htm .
My other similar page at
http://www.abbemac.fsnet.co.uk/north.htm has not been changed.

At present the ice seems to be about similiar to that last year which was a
record.
The maximum melt happens during the first weeks of September so we will soon
know if this year will be another record.

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.