Arctic sea ice extent is almost exactly "normal."
Sea Ice extent
© University of Colorado BoulderSource 2017
There has been a huge increase in extent since this date last year.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent
© Univeristy of Colorado Boulder2016 2017
The lack of anything interesting happening in the Arctic frightens scientists, because it threatens their funding. So they simply lie about, as do their fellow criminals in the press. Here is an article from yesterday.

Arctic Ice article