A new day with new information. Here's an animation of Uni Bremen sea ice concentration maps from August 3rd-6th:
We see some more flash melting from the 5th to the 6th on the edge of the ice pack in the Beaufort Sea region, although technically I think this is more compaction than real melting. We also see some of the early flash melting flashing back, or 'unflashing', in the East Siberian Sea. It looks like that large swath of ice there has almost detached itself from the main ice pack.
On this animation of DMI sea level pressure maps we can see how the cyclone developed from the 3rd to the 6th. The purple in the centre of the storm shows how low sea level pressure was and still is (lowest I've seen in yesterday's reports was 963 mb):
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