The animation shows Arctic ice recovery from October 10 to October 31, 2022. On the lower center right, Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) freezes over entirely more than doubling up to 832k km2, 97% of its maximum.  Center bottom Beaufort Sea closes off the NW passage, reaching 1 Wadham in just that basin, 95% of its max.  On the left, the Russian shelf seas fill with ice, closing off the Northern Sea Route.  Laptev and East Siberian seas reached 100% of their maxes, together adding 2 Wadhams of ice extent.

The graph below shows Mid November daily ice extents for 2022 compared to 16 year averages, and some years of note. As of yesterday, Arctic ice extent tops 10 Wadhams, or 10M km2.

The black line shows during this period on average Arctic ice extents increase ~3.5M km2 from ~6.4M km2 up to ~9.9M km2.  The 2022 cyan MASIE line started the month 90k km2 above average and on day 320 increased its surplus to 200k km2.  The Sea Ice Index in orange (SII from NOAA) tracked MASIE the entire month with slightly lower extents. 2007 started with an 700k km2 deficit, but ended virtually average. 2020 had the lowest extent in the record, starting 1.1M km2 down and ending 600k km2 in deficit.

Why is this important?  All the claims of global climate emergency depend on dangerously higher temperatures, lower sea ice, and rising sea levels.  The lack of additional warming is documented in a post Still No Global Warming March 2022

The lack of acceleration in sea levels along coastlines has been discussed also.  See USCS Warnings of Coastal Flooding

Also, a longer term perspective is informative:

The table below shows the distribution of Sea Ice on day 320 across the Arctic Regions, on average, this year and 2007.

Region	2022320	Day 320 Average	2022-Ave.	2007320	2022-2007
(0) Northern_Hemisphere	10072814	9872802	200012	9824193	248621
(1) Beaufort_Sea	1051741	1065159	-13418	1059182	-7441
(2) Chukchi_Sea	606810	653669	-46859	519486	87324
(3) East_Siberian_Sea	1087137	1077200	9937	1055581	31557
(4) Laptev_Sea	897845	897567	278	897845	0
(5) Kara_Sea	716470	671740	44729	774297	-57827
(6) Barents_Sea	121787	166029	-44242	149482	-27695
(7) Greenland_Sea	463580	470580	-7000	533946	-70365
(8) Baffin_Bay_Gulf_of_St._Lawrence	693335	527100	166236	545899	147437
(9) Canadian_Archipelago	854843	851090	3753	852539	2304
(10) Hudson_Bay	315416	250421	64995	244531	70885
(11) Central_Arctic	3178409	3176760	1649	3163043	15366

The overall surplus to average is 200k km2, (2%).  Small deficits in Chukchi and Barents seas are more than offset by surpluses elsewhere, especially Baffin and Hudson Bays and Kara sea. 2022 ice extent exceeds that of 2007 by 1/4 Wadham, most of the difference being in Chukchi and Baffin Bay.

Illustration by Eleanor Lutz shows Earth’s seasonal climate changes. If played in full screen, the four corners present views from top, bottom and sides. It is a visual representation of scientific datasets measuring Arctic ice extents.