Description1979- Global sea ice extent (March).svg	English: Chart showing global area of sea ice extent, annually in the month of March (since 1979 in original upload) Data source: Global Snow and Ice Report March 2025 ("Global Sea Ice" chart). National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (April 2025). Archived from the original on 12 April 2025. ("Global Sea Ice" chart) Technical note: most SVG code was automatically generated by the "Vertical bar charts" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Additions and adjustments were made in a text editor. This SVG file contains embedded text that can be translated into your language, using any capable SVG editor, text editor or the SVG Translate tool. For more information see: About translating SVG files.
Date	12 April 2025
Source	Own work
Author	RCraig09

Per the NOAA source linked above for the first upload:
Percent loss per decade, from 1979, in the following months (Jan, Feb, March are 2025 numbers; rest are 2024 numbers)

Jan -2.52%

Feb -2.73%

Mar -2.20%

Apr -1.65%

May -1.38% (smallest)

Jun -1.90%

Jul -2.86%

Aug -3.01%

Sep -3.26% (largest)

Oct -3.19%

Nov -2.38%

Dec -2.24%

Unweighted average: -2.4433%

Averages weighted by number of days per month: -2.4427

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