Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere 2011/12

[summer blizzard]

Greenland has been the only above average area of ice extent all summer, the rest of the Arctic is near record lows.

[Isolated Frost]

Brilliant! The perfect thread, the daddy of em' all! Back again!

*makes hot chocolate and remembers last year's thread* Ahh...

[Stormyking]

Definatly looks like new Ice to me, will be interesting to see it all develop leading upto winter the Snow and Ice

[cyclonic happiness]

Here's this morning's offering, no change to snow levels, weenie bit of ice meltback.

Edited August 17, 2011 by cyclonic happiness

[Turnedoutniceagain]

......ahhhhh, it's back.

Splendid !!

[cyclonic happiness]

A few of our likkle pixels have disappeared in Eastern Russia and there has been quite a pronounced melt in the Arctic, but we do have a fresh few areas of snow in the western Himalayas.

I am a bit early starting the thread, so the real action shouldn't really start until the first week of september, but, hey ho!

Here's today's.

[Turnedoutniceagain]

http://www.snsk.no/longyearbyen.145587.no.html

Nothing in Svalbard yet. Normally a few flakes by the end of August

[summer blizzard]

Models indicate that we should see falls in eastern Siberia by the 23rd. Models also indicate that this pattern should persist a while with an isotherm below 0C.

Game on baby!

[cyclonic happiness]

Apart from some ice growth around the Canadian archypelago, everything is pretty stable.

[cyclonic happiness]

Hi guys!

Not much change today, maybe a slight meltback, as SB says above though, next week is looking good for Russia.

[cyclonic happiness]

Nothing exciting yet, but here ya go!

[cyclonic happiness]

Well hopefully later on this week we'll see the first proper bout of snow over central northern Siberia.

But, as for today, it's a weenie bit of meltback of ice, no fresh snows.

[summer blizzard]

Models backed off slightly, but the 26th onward looks very good.

[picog]

Starting to look cold up north! Even though the camera has drafted from the north pole, it's still well within the arctic circle. Signs of refreezing and fresh snow me thinks:-)

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa1.jpg

[summer blizzard]

Starting to look cold up north! Even though the camera has drafted from the north pole, it's still well within the arctic circle. Signs of refreezing and fresh snow me thinks:-)

http://www.arctic.no...atest/noaa1.jpg

Definite fresh snow, will have to keep an eye open for refreezing.

[cyclonic happiness]

Morning!

Well today, again not much change, we do have a bit of fresh snow over the himalyas and there's a fair bit of melt 'oop north'.

[summer blizzard]

Starting to look cold up north! Even though the camera has drafted from the north pole, it's still well within the arctic circle. Signs of refreezing and fresh snow me thinks:-)

http://www.arctic.no...atest/noaa1.jpg

Check out the cam now, pretty sure thats a refreeze.

[cyclonic happiness]

I agree, it looks alot more solid than it did a few days ago.

[cyclonic happiness]

May I introduce a good friend of mine..................WINTER!

[Radiating Dendrite]

I can already feel that raw easterly!

[Isolated Frost]

Long stretch pool of high pressure from Scandinavia to Alaska and we're sorted

[frozencanals]

Hahaha... this thread back already, wonderful.... and its snowing (in Siberia) what a great thread, I'm glad its back

Many thanks

FC

[toggerob]

Going to be a interesting season coming up. Volcanic eruptions in Iceland, Africa & Chile releasing huge amounts of CO2 combined. La Nina just about finishing off but still showing SST anomalies over in the Pacific, not to mention the potential for yet more Sudden Stratospheric Warming assuming the same trends shown the previous 2 years start earlier on in the season as last. mid-November was when the vectors shifted predominantly Easterly right up until April..here's looking forward to it.

[Radiating Dendrite]

Going to be a interesting season coming up. Volcanic eruptions in Iceland, Africa & Chile releasing huge amounts of CO2 combined. La Nina just about finishing off but still showing SST anomalies over in the Pacific, not to mention the potential for yet more Sudden Stratospheric Warming assuming the same trends shown the previous 2 years start earlier on in the season as last. mid-November was when the vectors shifted predominantly Easterly right up until April..here's looking forward to it.

I thought La Nina was expected to strengthen again and become even stronger than last year possibly?

Edited August 24, 2011 by Radiating Dendrite

[toggerob]

I assumed La Nina had peaked during mid-summer? but if not then I stand corrected.