Antarctic Ice Melt 2024. After growing through the southern. On september 19, 2024, antarctic sea ice stalled out at an annual maximum extent of 17.16 million square kilometers (6.63 million square miles), the second lowest maximum in.
In 2021, the un’s climate body, the intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc. Arctic sea ice extent for september 2024 was 4.36 million sq km.