Arctic Ice on the usual freeze-up

 

Nothing exciting here.  Last year, the Arctic was hit by a warm current coming up from the Pacific.  That same ocean current setting gave us a warm winter.  Now, it is important not to look at the absolute value, but the rate of ice volume increase.  It's doing quite well.  I actually expect it to take one of the steeper curves eventually, but that's quite uncertain.  The polar bears will be fine this year.