Size of Texas increase in Sea Ice. That's 266,000 square miles

Thats 170 million acres of ice more than usual. That’s sea ice, that has no impact on sea level.
However, it does mean that land ice is more, not less.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/global-sea-ice-area-averaging-above-normal-for-more-than-a-year/