Antarctic sea ice cover is close to average since 1981, and is more than 1.5 million km² higher than winter 1966. The press describes this as “record winter low” and “permanent shift.”
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“in August 1966 the maximum sea ice extent fell to 15.9×10 km ± 0.3×10 km .”
Extent has been higher than last year almost every day this year, by an average of 548,658 km².
ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/sh/osisaf_sh_sie_daily.txt
