“the extent of ice over the Arctic Ocean has never been this low in mid-June during the age of weather satellites.”... So the past 50 years we’ve haven’t seen this sort of melting... Which leaves only 4.5 billions years where we didn’t have satellites and this same sort of phenomena may have occurred. My guess is that in 1936 it may have occurred, that was a pretty warm year... But we didn’t have satellites back then.
And if you watch Deadliest Catch you'll know that last winter sea ice in the Bering Sea formed earlier and came south faster than they've seen in 20 years.
Neither situation is abnormal in any way.