Below are the ECMWF weather forecast from Tropical Tidbits (6 days) and the GFS temperature anomaly forecast (7 days).
As already discussed by others, ECMWF has high pressure becoming more dominant again. Not on the American side of the Arctic, however, but on the Siberian side. This high pressure then shifts on D3 towards the Chukchi, to intensify there. It could grow quite large, partly covering the ESS and Beaufort as well.
Of course, the low pressure over the Central Arctic Basin will probably help to preserve the ice there. And the skewed Dipole set-up will make for compaction towards the CAA Garlic Press, perhaps even widening the Laptev Bite a bit faster.
As for air temperatures, GFS also has some warming occurring in the Kara Sea and the adjoining Siberian coast, so my guess is that the ice south of Novaya Zemlya is toast, as is that last remaining patch of snow on Taymyr Peninsula (finally):
If these forecasts come about, some of that ice in the red zones on the PIOMAS comparison map I posted in the previous comment (indicating that the ice is currently thicker there than it was in 2012), may receive quite a blow. But as we've frequently seen, forecasts change along the way.
Either way, these red zones could very well be the main battleground for this year's melting season. If they do melt out, a new PIOMAS sea ice volume record is probable, and that could mean NSIDC/JAXA SIE ends up very low as well. But if they don't melt out... Oh, right, I already said in the previous comment.