I've been watching the U. Hamburg Arctic Sea Ice Area and Extent graphs Wipneus has automated. Ignoring those areas that are tied with previous years at fully iced over, I note that half of the regions (CAB, Kara, Laptev, Barents (Barentsz), Bering, Greenland and St. Lawrence) are at or near record lows-for-the-day-of-year. Although this is an extreme occurrence, looking at what is likely to come down the pike, half of these regions (CAB, Kara and Laptev) have 'always' re-attained/maintained full ice coverage during most the 4 or 5 following months of their freezing season. In the past, of these 7 currently record (or near record) low regions, only the Barentsz, Bering, Greenland and St. Lawrence regions (given they are not surrounded by cold land or ice) have shown variable amounts of peak ice. It is certainly possible these 4 regions will maintain low levels of ice coverage through the rest of this freezing season.
At some point in time, given global warming trajectories, each of the 'always getting fully iced over' regions will fail to fully ice over. (The Kara and Laptev already maxed out earlier this winter.) Given how remarkably warm this winter has been, I'm going to watch to see if the CAB ever gets fully iced over - or if the warm Atlantic waters will keep the ice edge at bay.