Isolated Frost

Haha- I'll be like that in a bit, just like the early warmth. Can't wait for a nippy day in September with a touch of ground frost, love the dark nights, but again, as soon as January comes and the festivities end, it becomes tedious and I can't wait for the warmer days.

I think 2008-09 was about average, 09-10 and 10-11 much above (esp 09-10), 11-12 much below and 12-13 just above (thanks to March) Autumn wise- if we get a warm September, that would be lovely; then October would give us a big northerly with snow in parts of lowland Scotland and NE coasts, and then Nov-Dec will give us a repeat of 2010, before a sunny, warm Jan and Feb slowly melting the snow.

Cheers! From a more IMBY pov- the reversal of +ve blocking heights in Greenland and Svalbard/NW Canada this year doesn't bode as well for the upcoming winter- thanks for all the work Interitus, BFTV, GS and G-W etc, really appreciated

I'll be losing an hour and 10 minutes of the day from now until I start school again in 2 weeks; from 0546/2031 to 0616/1953- I'll be waking up in the dark again; strangely nostalgic and also peed off at that!

I'd be happy for a winter with at least a week of snow lying, and at least 15 snow lying days (the average) here, and plenty of air frosts. If I got anything above 20cm or over 20 snow lying days, I would be pretty pleased- especially if the bulk happen around December.

Top temperature 18c, started with some rain, turned into a pretty sunny, but windy, day- with a few cloudy intervals- current temperature 16c.

Ice melt more noticeable for the 17th- especially across NE Greenland, N of Svalbard and NE Russia- big snow in the Himalayas though.

Is there anyone here that keeps records or can remember how many snow lying days they managed in February and March 2013? Cheers.

To have one of the coldest Arctic summers, but with the one of the lowest ice areas (and more importantly, volume levels) is quite worrying, keith? Also- the ice extent looks less across E Greenland and better across N Russia; are there any explanations for that, or just variation?

A small amount of ice loss- a little growth nr N Greenland offset by a chipping away at ice cover elsewhere, and we also see very little difference in snow cover. A pretty slow even-ing out of the snow and ice, you'd expect 2-3 weeks more of ice loss, maybe 1-2 weeks; and snow loss to begin to reverse by the start of September. The first snows of the season and snow cover for many in the arctic will most likely begin in the next 3 weeks- and we'll see where the growth comes and at what extent will the snow cover rise. EC-D8; winter, welcome to Russia.

I also do- much better and refreshing walking and thinking about how much you're going to mess up today! As I'm 15, and I can't remember anything before the age of 9 tbf- nothing before 2006 for me per month- January - 2010 February - 2009 March - 2013 April - 2012 May - ? June - 2010 July - 2013 August - ? September - 2010 October - 2008 November - 2010 December - 2010 Criteria for a good month for me are- in the order seperated by commas January-March: snow days, convection, air frosts, sunshine April-August: sunshine, warmth, convection September-October: air frosts, cold days November-December: snow days, convection, air frosts, sunshine Best 30 day period is definitely Nov 25-Dec 25 2010, followed by Dec 17-Jan 17 2009-10 and then this July really.

Lovely day today, sunny and warm with few clouds and a small breeze. Sun is setting atm, and it's very chilled out here- these are the best days of summer; have a few more BBQ days, and then we go into first frost mode...

Snow melt in the Pamirs, and Arctic Canada- ice stays roughly similar and the odd pixel added in Scandinavia.

They kept on telling me to start one! Hopefully we see a good August-October period- recent history and my method would promote a pretty cold and snowy winter with a good Aug-Oct snow growth.

Haha, just looked at the output and it reminded me of typical winter fare, a high pressure cell trying to relocate to Scandinavia; but a sneaky shortwave pulls in the flow and makes it as complicated as a divorce with Max Branning. Worst case scenario to me is an Azores ridge and a HP cell over us for 2-3 days, giving much of England and Wales sunshine, as well as much of Scotland and Ireland- the upper flow, especially north of 30N doesn't seem at all conductive to zonality up to late August at the least- a very erratic pattern with energy displaced throughout the arctic. Probably another warm to very warm week in store, after this taste of autumn.

December 2010. If it wasn't calendar, it would be November 24 2010 to December 25 2010 (add a day!), that was just incredible. Ice days, sharp frosts and heavy snow/thundersnow/sun and snow shrs. December 3rd, Sunday, woke up at -12.2c and 42cm of snow here by the coast.

SE Greenland seeing some snow tonight.

Some ice retreat (especially around NE Greenland and Baffin Island) and some snow melt (around Kamchatka), as well as a big snowfall in Tajikistan/northern Afghanistan around the Pamir Mtns.

17c, medium and high level cloud with some clear patches, still very mild and pleasant after a wet start.

Dark, dreary and wet. Bizarrely slightly nostalgic about it all.

Come Feb, if there's no disruptive/big snow/cold/frost then I can't wait for long days, short nights, BBQ's and staying out in the garden/chilling with mates. Come Aug, if there's no big heatwave, then I can't wait for long nights, short days, frosts, heavy snow and drinking hot drinks by the fire, hopefully with snow outside. That's about it really, moods completely change for me.

Thursday 0700 Temperatures around 15c to 17c, very mild and wet early on. 1300 Highs of around 20c to 22c, gradually becoming sunnier with some intermittent showers and cloud outbreaks. 1900 A more pronounced band of rain moves through during the evening, temperatures around 17c to 18c. Summary A very mild day which begins with rain for most, and large amounts of cloud cover, which breaks intermittently in the afternoon, allowing some sunshine and a brief stop to the rain- it stays mild and becomes wetter as the evening moves on.

To my naked eye, Alps, Scandinavian Mtns, Himalayas, Tian Shan, Altai Mtns, Kamchatka, Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land, Icelandic Mtns, far north of Siberia, Greenland, Baffin Island, parts of upland Canada (Coast Mtns in particular), Alaska and Ellesmere Island currently have the white pixels, I'd probably expect some stop-start advances and declines until early September, but it often can speed up at anytime. Notable also that 2013 ice extent is generally higher, more spread out and less concentrated than the awful 2012, but the E Greenland coast is not bordered by ice, transferal of that towards Siberia and NW Canada- possibly a major factor in the upcoming Autumn...

It's not light at 10pm anymore, some Siberian town is harvesting, and the Daily Star has their top weather correspondents at the fore for the biggest September snow scare ever to grind Britain to a halt, and on an internet forum, a bunch of nutjob enthusiasts are tracking white pixels spread westwards on a map. Life's good. Previous thread here http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/74146-snow-and-ice-in-the-northern-hemisphere-201213/

10c? You're gonna bloody hate this autumn thing. 11c is the average low here in August, are you not used to that in August Botty? Got down to 6c here a few days ago.