IJIS (filling in temporarily for the very busy Espen):
12,637,354 km2 (January 9, 2014) Second lowest ever for the date. (1st: 2011 / 12,596,125 km2)
157,621 km2 below 2000s average, and 483,075 km2 below the same date in 2012, the year of the record-setting melt-out.