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Arctic Sea Ice extent at lowest level for date in the the satellite record
It has now passes 2012 and total extent is over 3 million sq km lower than average for the date.
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/sea-ice-tools/
Temperature above the 80th parallel has been 8c to 10c above average for the last 3-4 weeks and above average since the summer.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
And the U.S. Navy ice thickness map shows how thin the ice really is right now
