JAXA DATA AS AT 21 JAN
Extent loss on average is 91% done, with just with on average 1.4 million km2 of extent loss and 30 days to go, (a maximum extent loss of 2 million (2014-15) and a minimum of 0.8 million (2016-17) ). So the range of the minimum final result is high, the average being just under 2 million km2, which would be a second record low in a row. 2018 extent is still 0.4 million greater than 2017 on this date.
Remaining ice is mostly relatively thick ice, the main lump still in the SW of the Weddell Sea, and not a lot of weather and drift to break it up. (Larsen C is, of course, in the middle of that). Perhaps this indicates a lower than average remaining extent loss - perhaps not.
Air temperatures have been and are still below zero in the melt areas, but this has not stopped melting. But what are ocean temperatures at depth up to ? (NO DATA ?)