LincolnSnowstorm

South of our usual concerns but the biggest change on the noaa asiaeurope chart is China getting a large dump of snow, also causing problems in Nepal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29625605

Yes that would be bad, it happened in 2010 and nearly blew our chances... October 31 and Nov 9th Must be more factors involved though, than a huge negative amount of southerly snow cover.

Lovely 360 Cam and Road cam link J10 , looks like a real special placehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honningsv%C3%A5g would be good for the snow fix if the forecast improves http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Finnmark/Nordkapp/Honningsvåg/long.html

L( no need to be down http://longyearbyen.kystnor.no?t=2014-10-14+07-30-00 Only ten days left for the sunhttp://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/longyearbyen but they have there are good flood lights for snowy lamp post watching http://www.yr.no/sted/Norge/Svalbard/Longyearbyen/time_for_time.html Just waiting now (hopefully not to long) for the great webcam pics that are bound to happen in Iceland, Sweden, Finland , The Alps etc etc

Would be great to have a few more updates...

Here is some webcam pics to wet the appetite Artic North low sun at lunch time. Norway North Norway middle 62°05'38.9"N 8°07'46.7"E Norway South Rain or snow!

Its still looking good ,hoping that we can say in a couple of weeks that the SAI part of the winter puzzle has given its best shot at getting us a winter different to last year.

Here that, as always interesting comparison gtltweather enjoy Ice now then Snow now Snow then Hopefully, still wriggle room for an upgrade

Here is last year to compare all ready for the crazy Atlantic!

The Ice chart is looking promising No sign of the red line joining the its blue,green and orange friends any time soon.

A useful amount, I think for the date.

Whoops, sorry LS you are quite right. I was looking at the big red blob at the end of Siberia, and assumed it was Alaska after all the press reports and bloggs on here about it being very warm at the moment. I hadn't seen any reports that it had cooled back to normal with average amounts of snow around. My only excuse was I didn't have my reading glasses on at the time and I was sitting in the lovely sunshine we are experiencing today. Sorry for the blooper MIA Chill no worries MIA the big red Siberian blob will get smaller in the next few days, Yes Alaska could do better but its early days and Canada does seem to be more than compensation. Talking of compo perhaps some in these 2010 charts Alaska - Canada + Russia - ...this could lead to something!

Looks normal to me others may have more detail.

Ok its looking good out there. Some daylight left in Svalbard http://www.lookr.com/lookout/1350084604-Sveagruva#action-play-day A bit of snow due in Lapland and the Northern Hemisphere more than keeping up with 2010 benchmark http://www.yr.no/place/Finland/Laponia/Rovaniemi/ http://international.rovaniemi.fi/en/webcam

Chill throwoff its still early days, just watch the chart get steeper over the next few weeks it always does http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/Sea_Ice_Extent_v2_L.png

heavy snow

Ok put your spec hunting binoculars down for a minute and enjoy what happens when the 'shnow..its' the fan! Would love too know what going to pull the Ukrainian bendy bus out. at 11.40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2Deik2oQA

Still looking hopeful 6 hours later

any update on this or a hyper link ,I cant find the charts and it would be nice to see a hint of progress. On a different topic...is the ice refreeze doing well? around Greenland it looks nice and thick to me http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/

Talking of importance,I see the 0.8 Correlations importance peeks at 53 degrees north (if it works ) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1029/2011GL049626/asset/supinfo/grl28662-sup-0002-fs01.pdf?v=1&s=25752f79fe57b690307343baed987015d8cd24c4 But that's based over all longitudes so it must be even higher for us as it seems to snow so easily around that latitude in the North American continent..edit maybe I'm muddled.

I would love to know why 2010 snow advancement was so good...but also able to be so bad; for example 5th Nov yes http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-20141004-story.html http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Snow-Spotted-in-Chicago-as-City-Prepares-for-Record-Temps-278112851.html

Greenland is so cold no wonder the ice is growing there.. wonder if it will head for Iceland again this winter? Super snow there as well http://www.yr.no/place/Greenland/Other/Danmarkshavn/hour_by_hour_detailed.html Thinking its too early and still not cold enough for the coming Russian snow to make an inpact on the S.A.I but at lest it should look pretty for a few days. Also like the way the snow points at and dreams of getting to Texas guess it will have to wait at least a month before making a proper effort!

Maybe more than 2010 now! .....update for Tuesday. News report of it catching people out http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/snowfall-slows-traffic-in-whitehorse-1.2782718 The morning commute http://embed.scribblelive.com/MediaData.aspx?action=GetMediaFile&PostId=128587264

Its a bit of fun watching the snow in Svalbard, playing back the last few hours (posting 2.19pm) http://www.lookr.com/lookout/1220878595-Longyearbyen#action-play-day http://www.lookr.com/lookout/1350084604-Sveagruva#action-play-day lamp post watching as it gets darker at the mine maybe! http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Svalbard/Sveagruva/hour_by_hour.html

I'm not sure ..What about large negative anomalies? ....anyway looking super positive at the moment