The massive shift towards the Atlantic continues for at least another week. Extent in the Barentsz has gone up a bit, unlike the Greenland Sea, but there's a limit to that compensation, as we're already witnessing, especially at this time of year. I also wonder whether that cyclone right over the Kara Sea in the next three days will have a marked effect on the sea ice there.
Right now, the big drops are obviously caused by Okhotsk, Bering and Chukchi, and it's just a matter of time when the Beaufort is going to join the party. It already looks like there's quite a bit of open water along the coast and between floes, but under a camouflage of fog/thin ice, keeping the trend line on the UH AMSR2 graph steady, whereas in 2016 the trend line had already started dropping.
A the bottom, there's an animation showing the situation on May 7th 2016 (a week from today) versus yesterday. Given the current forecast things should look a lot more similar next week.