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Satellite imagery shows what is really going on. The Beaufort Sea is full of large chunks of thick multi-year ice. When the wind blows, interstitial space opens up between the rounded blocks.

It will take a long time to melt through all that thick ice, and I don’t know if the remaining eight weeks is long enough.

arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2012/182)