Up to now, we do not see many cracks or floes in central arctic through satellite, it do not mean that the ice is intact, it only shows that the wind is not strong. If you look carefully, there are many tiny cracks spread all over the ice which means the ice could be broken up into tiny floating thin ice if strong wind coming. There are major two kinds of floes in arctic, the big floes in Beaufort sea and tiny floes along the Russia coast( East Siberian Sea, Laptev Sea, etc.).



The big floes in Beaufort sea formed 2 weeks ago but it still exist and melt away in a slow way. It may result from the insolation efect as without enough melt pond.



The tiny floes along Russia side just formed 1 week ago but melt away quickly.



The difference lies in the insolation effect. If the central arctic sea ice remains seemingly intact but darker and darker into July. Once breakup, they will be melt away quickly. If the central sea ice break up early into large floes(seemingly looks terrible as 2016), but they will exist for a long time.



Remember all the energy in arctic comes from sun, no matter storm, wind, etc. Although the ice extent or area do not drop down quickly, it becomes thinner and thinner. That is the most terrible thing.