MASIE for day 299. The list of regions and difference from 2012. 3 have less ice in 2015 than 2012.
Northern_Hemisphere 1374906.13
Beaufort_Sea 484484.07
Chukchi_Sea -60051.49
East_Siberian_Sea -127044.94
Laptev_Sea 100968.11
Kara_Sea 435526.81
Barents_Sea 9450.17
Greenland_Sea -18418.87
Baffin_Bay_Gulf_of_St._Lawrence 202557.95
Canadian_Archipelago 174734.34
Hudson_Bay 79467.49
Central_Arctic 93232.5
Bering_Sea 0
Baltic_Sea 0
Sea_of_Okhotsk 0
Yellow_Sea 0
sunshine hours 
According to MASIE, 2015 tied 2014 on day 298. Also the extent is ~400k km2 larger than NOAA.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/arctic-ice-race-tied-oct-25/
Ozone Hole 24 Oct 2015
Note the minimum stratospheric temperature. It is falling.
Day 300 blank no charts bruce