"temperatures in the area above 80 degrees north latitude were already more than 20 degrees warmer than the average temperature for this time of year."

The Arctic is a massive region, so to say that we are "more than 20 degrees warmer than average" sounds dubious to me. Kind of like when CNN does national weather and puts one temperature over the AK map like the Temps are the same in Barrow as they are in Ketchikan. If color represents temperature, why is the north pole on 2/10 the same color as the Texas panhandle where temps are in the upper 60's?