In the light of all the recent weather predictions, for my own purposes I have to make sense of what actually happens as those predictions unfold. So forgive me if the following seems redundant to some of you... it may not to seem so to less experienced people like myself. Lots of lacunae in my knowledge, happy to be corrected.
Images are from Worldview, unaltered.
1. The low pressure system remains parked over Novya Zemlya and is forecast to continue to do so. Ice will continue, presumably, to get dragged in an arc out of the Kara and towards the Barentz.
2. For fun. The bluest ice I can remember seeing on Worldview, fast ice in the northern Kara coast. Closeup below the first image. I am guessing the ice here is melting like crazy and forming massive meltponds in the process.
3. I presume this is the warm, humid ridge being drawn from Siberia by the joint action of the low on the right of picture and high on the left of picture. Should be interesting to see how it develops and what it does. If the clouds are telling the story, it looks like it is just in the process of forming over the Arctic ice.
4. High pressure area. Lots of solar insolation over this summer solstice.