global sea-ice

https://sites.google.com/site/arctis...t_byyear_b.png

is returning to on-this-day-of-the-year record minimum.
Will an upswing return in September is the next waypoint I suppose

Presumably just curious,never having seen this before, rather than any
significance, going to source

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ch...sea-ice-graph/

and selecting 2017 N & S poles, both at mimimum arctic and minimum
antarctic sea-ice, near enough on 29 July of all (satellite era) years
Global sea ice
2017, 23.356 million sq km
2018, 23.391 " "