Also worth noting -- how do we look compared to this point in 2012?
The answer is, DIFFERENT! But mostly warmer in the crucial regions, and by A LOT in Beaufort.
This is for 3/4-3/7 which is admittedly a narrow look, but in the seven years since 2012, parts of North America are now running 20C colder than at this point that year. There is also a pocket of severe cold in the Barentz and northern Kara.
On the flip side, parts of Baffin / the Labrador Sea are up to +20C vs seven years ago! The most severe warming also extends across much of the Bering and Beaufort shorelines. Much of Siberia is running +10C or higher than at this point that year, and much of Europe is also much above normal.
Finally: I do not have snow depth maps for many years, but you can compare the EURO with 2018 for both depth and SWE. Given the departure map vs 2012 I'd assume we'd also be at a big deficit versus that year, but the change vs. 2018 is very steep across much of northern Siberia.
https://weather.us/model-charts/euro/northern-asia/snow-water-equivalent/20190310-0300z.html2019^
https://weather.us/model-charts/euro/2018030912/northern-asia/snow-depth-in/20180319-1200z.html2018^
Western Siberia has seen substantial year over year gains and so have some areas with significant elevation, but overall, there is a massive dearth of SWE and depth in areas south of the ESS and Chukchi. So far, 2019's trends would seem to indicate these areas are not in for major snows in March or April (as they would be in normal years). If that is indeed the case, we are going to see a wide area of Eurasia more than counteract the +anomaly in North America, and the ensuing albedo feedbacks are likely to result in extraordinarily early melt-out of the ESS in particular, and likely the Chukchi and Laptev as well.
It will be curious to see if, how, and when the albedo situation in Eurasia truly begins to spiral, but it may already be occurring. We are over -1SD below recent norms.
The combination of a lack of SWE and a lack of any substantive shore ice means that when the boundary stops refreezing, the Eurasian shorelines are going to rip open, the ice is going to retreat quickly, and we are likely to accumulate significant springtime insolation in areas where that has never happened in the satellite record.