Climate Change | Arctic Sea Ice Records 7th Lowest Ever Measured

Arab Weather - Every summer of every year, the ice cover in the Arctic continues to melt due to the continued rise in temperatures until it reaches the minimum at the end of summer before the cold weather begins to cause the ice cover there to increase.

Weather forecasters at Arab Weather said that the latest satellite data analysis conducted by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, showed that the minimum Arctic sea ice extent for 2024 and up until September 11 was 1.65 million square miles (4.28 million square kilometers), making it the seventh lowest sea ice extent ever measured in the Arctic.

The sea ice in the Arctic changes from day to day, and the surrounding weather conditions affect the thickness of the ice from year to year. There is no doubt that global warming and the rise in the temperature of the seas and oceans due to climate change play an important role in changing the thickness of the ice in the Arctic. The melting of ice affects the weather conditions around the world due to the increase in the evaporation process and the feeding of the atmosphere with huge amounts of water vapor, thus forming extreme weather conditions and heavy rainfall later. The melting of ice also poses a real danger to neighboring countries due to fears of rising sea levels and rivers adjacent to some countries, which threatens the lives of people living in coastal areas.