Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere 2012/13

[Aaron]

Forecast for the Nordic capitals looks cold and snowy.. so hopefully a big increase in snow to come.

Stockholm..

Helsinki

Oslo

[Interitus]

Well about time, the first round of the ski jumping world cup took place at Lillehammer in Norway over the weekend and they had no snow - had to use artificial.

[gottolovethisweather]

More webcams.

Lapland looking good - http://alk.tiehallinto.fi/alk/english/kelikamerat/kamera-C1453302.html

Just North of Helsinki - http://alk.tiehallinto.fi/alk/english/kelikamerat/kamera-C0153302.html

Cairngorm - http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Cairngorm/webcams/latest

[Ice Day]

Snow line continues to head south in Finland and Sweden and moves towards the Baltic states from Russia. All going to plan (considering it's not even winter yet!!!)

[LincolnSnowstorm]

Snow line continues to head south in Finland and Sweden and moves towards the Baltic states from Russia. All going to plan (considering it's not even winter yet!!!)

guess no body told that to Nov 2010! amazing chart but saying that it has much improved over the last couple of days and the ice is being very good.

also Japan is doing well and better than 2010 http://www.japantoda...mes-in-hokkaido

Edited November 28, 2012 by harshwintercoming

[Aaron]

Possibly snowing in Stockholm right now, but if it is, it isn't sticking.. early days though, won't get above freezing in Stockholm for the next week at least if the forecasts are accurate

[Ice Day]

Big falls in Scandi; Norway, Finland and Sweden just about full! Incredible that a county the size of Russia, apart from the southern extreme's is almost completely under snow.

[Aaron]

Woo! Go Scandi..

[LincolnSnowstorm]

Woo! Go Scandi..

that's right and others will do well in the next few days, looking very healthy on the expected snow chart and expect to see some more blue positives on the snow cover anomaly chart soon.

three to six day snow fall forecast

[gottolovethisweather]

Roll the movie loop, people.

http://www.myweather...e=RAIN_AND_SNOW

Whilst, not that fantastic for us just now, FI IMO is no further out than Sunday or Monday at current time.

Edited November 29, 2012 by gottolovethisweather

[gottolovethisweather]

Helsinki - settled snow at sea level.

Moscow - still under snow

Oslo Linpro? - archived image, but very recent capture.

I suspect there are others, but the build up is continuing and it won't be long until it is our turn. Plenty of surprises along the way with all the borderline events upcoming.

Current snow and ice coverage courtesy of NOAA shown below.

[Aaron]

Stockholm is white..

http://www.webbkameror.se/webbkameror/gondolen/webkamera_eriks_640_2.php

[LincolnSnowstorm]

Roll the movie loop, people.

http://www.myweather...e=RAIN_AND_SNOW

Whilst, not that fantastic for us just now, FI IMO is no further out than Sunday or Monday at current time.

looks a lot less on that movie than the longer and less reliable longer looking three to six day chart so it will be interesting to see if the snow can do a big euro push by Wednesday

[fUnKy]

Big falls in Scandi; Norway, Finland and Sweden just about full! Incredible that a county the size of Russia, apart from the southern extreme's is almost completely under snow.

Napoleon and Hitler were surprised too

[Interitus]

Sorry to say that the advances in snow in Scandinavia and eastern Europe are not all that impressive now, this is what it should be like. It has been very mild during November throughout most of the region with temperatures widely between 2 - 4°C above average - look at some of the last 30 day plots here -

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/global_monitoring/temperature/global_temp_accum.shtml

For example Arkhangelsk in Russia is running 4.43°C above average over the last 30 days.

[Aaron]

In some winters, large parts of Scandinavia have been snow free well into January in exceptionally mild spells.. so it's not bad.

[Cutty Dyer]

Moscow - still under snow

As reported on the Sky News channel:

Link: http://news.sky.com/story/1018261/moscow-hit-by-biggest-snowfall-in-50-years

Edited November 29, 2012 by Cutty Dyer

[Aaron]

12cm is recording breaking for Moscow? Now, I know Moscow is inland and rather dry in winter, but come on, surely they have received far larger falls..

Nevermind, it's the biggest November snowfall for 50 years.

Edited November 29, 2012 by Aaron

[Cutty Dyer]

12cm is recording breaking for Moscow? Now, I know Moscow is inland and rather dry in winter, but come on, surely they have received far larger falls..

Nevermind, it's the biggest November snowfall for 50 years.

"The Moscow weather service said today that a third of November's typical amount of snow had fallen in the past 24 hours, creating a 4.7in (12cm) cover - and more is forecast.

Moscow's city hall said the Russian capital has not seen a bigger snowfall in November for about 50 years."

I guess they should know.

Edited November 29, 2012 by Cutty Dyer

[Interitus]

According to the synop report, in the 24hrs to 6am (UTC) Moscow had 14cm of snow (15cm minus 1cm already there). A quick look on Ogimet shows that they had a 16cm fall of snow on 9th November 2002

http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?ind=27612〈=en&decoded=yes&ndays=2&ano=2002&mes=11&day=10&hora=12

[cheeky_monkey]

Napoleon and Hitler were surprised too

Russia was a lot snowier at this time of year when those guys paid a visit.

[fUnKy]

Russia was a lot snowier at this time of year when those guys paid a visit.

they obviously didn't use exacta weather for their long range forecasts.

[gottolovethisweather]

looks a lot less on that movie than the longer and less reliable longer looking three to six day chart so it will be interesting to see if the snow can do a big euro push by Wednesday

And you might get a dusting Saturday I believe, as that front skirts south towards south-east England.

Edited November 29, 2012 by gottolovethisweather

[Isolated Frost]

Snow across Germany, Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland especially this coming wknd- to add to that in Scandinavia

[Ice Day]

Big 'dollop' across the Alps and Scandi's snow has moved into the Baltic states. Snow also pushes south further into Kazakhstan; keep it coming our way....it's not even winter yet!!!

Oh, and we finally have ice cover parity with 2007 (not that that's much to shout about!)