The chunk of ice is larger in area than Mexico.
Usually this time of year, sea ice returns to Antarctica at a somewhat predictable rate. But the extent of refrozen sea ice is falling far short of predictions this month. According to satellite data, 5.4 million square miles of ice refroze, falling roughly 0.9 million square miles short of where experts would expect it to be.
"The Antarctic system has always been highly variable," Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado Boulder,. "This [current] level of variation, though, is so extreme that something radical has changed in the past two years, but especially this year, relative to all previous years going back at least 45 years."
"Since 2016, it’s remained low, and now the bottom has fallen out," Scambos added. "Something major in a huge part of the planet is suddenly behaving differently from what we saw for the past 45 years."
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