EDIT: very interesting, Artful Dodger! The procession of powerful cyclones through the Arctic Basin has certainly been a striking feature of this melt season. The trend looks set to continue over the rest of this melt season, as follows.
There's a strong low pressure system sitting currently about halfway between Svalbard and the North Pole, with a minimum pressure of 981 hPa according to the GFS run at tropicaltidbits.com
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=nhem&pkg=z500_mslp&runtime=2016090218&fh=6&xpos=0&ypos=155.
As appended, Nullschool shows it generating winds reaching 50 km/h in the Atlantic-side rubble sea ice.
There's another low in the Arctic Basin, much weaker and further over towards Alaska, as well as a high pressure system just inside the Bering Strait and near Wrangel Island.
What's notable in the GFS forecast - extending over 17 days, and more-or-less confirmed by the ECMWF forecast over the first 11 days - is the forecast dominance of low pressure in the Arctic Basin over the foreseeable future. Of those 17 days, the lowest forecast pressure in the Arctic Basin is in the:
990s hPa for 5 of 17 days
980s hPa for 11 of 17 days
970s hPa for 1 of 17 days (973 hPa way out on 18 September).
That low pressure dominance is underpinned by the Arctic Basin showing a persistent pressure minimum at the 500 hPa height - displayed as deep blues and purples in the tropicaltidbits.com weather charts.
So perhaps the Arctic Basin is going to remain windy and dominated by low pressure over the final weeks and days of the melt season?