I'm going to underscore some of what Friv is saying, and present something which contrasts with comments elsewhere about the quality of the central CAB.
Below are two images, the larger one stretching from Wrangel Island in the upper left, to the central arctic basin at about 82N, 170E in the lower right.
Across it you can see the evolution of melt, and I think it's pretty clear that in it, from upper left to lower right, we have a gradient that demonstrates what happens to the current ice as it progresses through it.
The detail image is about 76N in the upper left, and about 82N in the lower right, a subset of the larger image.
In that detail, you can see clearly how as the melt progresses, the individual small floes become separated out, as interstitial ice formed during winter fracturing events melts out.
If the heat gets to it, that's the fate of the ice at high latitude, as I think the visual pattern pretty well illustrates. There aren't large expanses of mesh pack; it is *all* pretty much the small, granular structure wall to wall, with the exception of relict MYI broken off and swept into the Beaufort (where it is doomed), or the bastion pressed hard against the CAA (which is due to get clobbered over the next two weeks or so, if the forecasts are to be believed.
What this means for September, I don't know yet, but I'm not optimistic, and I fear imagining the central pack is in a state such that it can resist strong heat is wishful thinking.