On Sep 18, 1:03*pm, James Brown
wrote:
It looks as if there has been a faster seasonal return to ice increase
than in the dire year of 2007. Though looking at the overall Arctic
temperature charts I'm not quite sure why.

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/i...timeseries.png

Cheers
James
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James Brown

Apart from the fact that there has been a downtick over the last 2
days *)) :

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

Don't be surprised to see fluctuations during the coming week. It
happens at this time. As you imply, increases, or decreases will be
down to local synoptics and temperature differences for a few days
yet, as ice is still melting in many areas, whereas in others, the
freeze has well and truly begun.