The time of the great loss of 2012 Arctic sea ice, setting the lowest ever sea ice extent spanning months, has come to an end, now past mid-October. The to-date arctic sea ice extent for 2007 is now the lowest extent, & 2007 is soon to be passed by 2016 sea ice low, which was a tremendous comparative downward surge during this period of rapidly gathering Arctic sea ices. It is not coincidental that the 2016 wild DECREASE in sea ice GAIN, occurred when the gap between the satellite average High Arctic temperature & 2016 High Arctic temperature, was at its widest ever ( ~ +20degC) averaged over millions of square kilometers.
With all this sea ice... "decrease of the increase", it will be very interesting to see what the to-date sea ice extent of 2018 will bring in these future weeks, since to-date 2018 sea ice extent is rivaling 2012, 2007, & 2016, & a "long term" 2018 High Arctic high temperature is presently reigning.