Minnesota Public Radio reported this week that the Arctic sea ice reached a new record low for extent in winter on February 17. January temperatures ran 23 degrees warmer than average in parts of the Arctic. That has resulted in the lowest percentage of ice cover on record since satellites began keeping record in 1979.
You can read the story at https://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2016/02/arctic-sea-ice-has-never-been-this-low-in-winter/.
The Washington Post provided an additional story on the Arctic warming in their story this week here.
