Unfortunately, the headline, like ALL of the rest for decades, is woefully conservative and fails to address the real situation, and more probmilmaticaly the failure modes of intense climate change. The current (daily) charts and maps as all in record teritory, with changes so extream as to suggest that there could be unmanageable conditions in our imediate future.

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/sst/contour/

https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_daily/

edit: The charts shown in the article, show the institutional insanity, by greying out Ireland, speaking of "europe", but showing only data for England.