An update to yesterdays post  Premature Arctic Ice Fears which discussed lop-sided media coverage of  a temporary ice shortfall in Bering Sea.  Now today, the image above shows that in just five days, that deficit has been obliterated.  Since day 66, Bering added 170k km2 to go over 400k km2, close to the previous Bering high in 2018 on day 34.  That was the last Arctic region where some alarm could be raised.  Overall, 2018 is now higher than 2017 at this date, having reached a new maximum of 14.6M km2.