This piece gives the details. In two words the answer is "about average". But to get the complete picture you should read the link. It would seem that the Arctic is like a lot of places in that there is a lot of year to year variation there. That is called "weather", but when taken over a number of years it sort of averages out.
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October 4, 2019 at 01:30AM
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