Here is the effect of the 13 Nov 16 storm so far. It appears, since significant central ice pack compaction or ridging is plausible at this time of the year and since the Chukchi - Beaufort - ESS -Bering is backsliding slightly, that heat from the storm winds and waves has melted quite a bit of the Svalbard - FJI front, though the ice pack has been blown back too.
In this situations it's adequate operationally to just track the deep blue pixel edge on UHH AMSR2 which is single clicks with a non-contiguous color picker, boundary filler, and histogram counter retrieval.
For the region shown in the wide format 1st animation (needs a click,
your best option), there has been a 28% increase in area between the 12th and 17th, with winding down in sight if not return of ice-freezing conditions. However some of Atlantic facing marginal ice zone was not that thick or concentrated to begin with, so the volume of ice melted is not so large.
Scribbler is talking about the seasonal asymmetry of Arctic amplification. Fair enough, that was already noted back in 1980 (historical review at link below). Since the effect is cumulative, fall and winter today in polar latitudes are not what they used to be and as Csnavywx notes, projections all have it getting worse.
Curiously, both the cause and consequences to mid-latitudes are still under discussion 36 years later. The other day, strong support for the wobbly jet stream, stationary weather pattern of J Francis came out from an unexpected quarter. That hypothesis has been hamstrung statistically by a shortage of equable (stable) climate baseline and unnatural variation.
While Scribbler writes in a different style from Neven (accounting for why most of us are here), his following is possibly much larger and more influential (including Elon Musk and Ramsdorf). I find his site refreshing (especially after reading journal articles, where every half sentence is cautiously worded, referenced, and heavily qualified). His bottom line is no different than what you find here spread out here over 1467 forums and the central blog.
http://www.the-cryosphere.net/3/11/2009/tc-3-11-2009.pdf free full text!
Hat tip to stalwarts jdallen, jim h and many others for storm contributions! We really do need to up our game on these winter storms to have any hope of understanding the next melt season. Atmospheric column heat and moisture expert L Boisvert appreciated an alert and is looking right now at the 13 Nov 16 storm with advanced methods. I'll review her last two papers in a bit.