Snow and Ice in the Northern Hemisphere 2013/14

[Isolated Frost]

Not necessarily Gav- the amount of gain in cover between then and November (most importantly October) is the main indicator of blocking patterns in the coming winter.

[LincolnSnowstorm]

ok....more meaningless but lovely September snow 

Point barrow has a big temp drop in the last few days, showing the change of season so no more above freezing temps meaning 'any rain is snow' 

http://www.yr.no/place/United_States/Alaska/Point_Barrow/long.html http://www.camscape.com/view/34011 

 

Iceland also put a display of the snowgress towards winter eg http://www.yr.no/place/Iceland/Nor%C3%B0urland_Eystra/Askja/

Some sun  but plenty of the white stuff. 

 

come a long way in a couple of weeks  

the snow is still normal as shown by having some red on it so no ice age just yet! last year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sebastiaan1973]

Apologies if this has already been posted. August snow cover was above the 81-10 average this year (but below the 71-00 average in the graph)

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_rankings.php?ui_set=1

Largest August snow cover since 1998, markedly different from recent years.

 

This graph is for the entire NH, in Eurasia there was a shortage of snow.

[sebastiaan1973]

Snowfall this weekend in Siberia. East of Nova Zembla appears a area of low pressure. According to GFS it's not a lot of snow.

Edited September 16, 2013 by sebastiaan1973

[LincolnSnowstorm]

This graph is for the entire NH, in Eurasia there was a shortage of snow.

that graph has been so long in the negative ,since the 1990's time for a change?  

[Gavin Hannah]

A further gain in sea ice, up to 8.34M today.

 

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

 

Snow cover has been more or less redistributed.

 

[LincolnSnowstorm]

A further gain in sea ice, up to 8.34M today.

 

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

 

Snow cover has been more or less redistributed.

 

 

not sure how that ties in with the graph posted which says The latest value: 4,834,931 km²  

[Gavin Hannah]

Lol, oops, I meant 4.834M   Though 8.43M would be a decent figure haha.

Edited September 16, 2013 by IBringTheHammer

[LincolnSnowstorm]

Lol, oops, I meant 4.834M  Though 8.43M  would be a decent figure haha.

[LincolnSnowstorm]

lets play spot the difference!  on the rotating sun.

when will this effect us if any? eg N.H. snow and ice

[Gavin Hannah]

 

YEA BABY!

 

Or, 

 

Edited September 17, 2013 by IBringTheHammer

[bobbydog]

 

YEA BABY!

 

Or, 

 

 

 

IBringTheCopyrightInfringement....

 

lol....

[Gavin Hannah]

Rofl...what the hell???

[swfc]

What did show?at least tell us ! Lol

[Yarmy]

What did show?at least tell us ! Lol

 

They are webcams from Ski Resorts (snoweye.com)

 

At the moment they all look like Ski Sunday 2080.

[weatherguy]

Decent amount of snow here  http://panocam.skiline.cc/lauberhorn

[LincolnSnowstorm]

                            Extra snow mainly in Iceland                

                http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Storm_Still_Raging,_Blackout_and_Lost_Tourist_0_402964.news.aspx

 

      Sun now has a little more activity so no strange flatlining            

 

[Tom Quintavalle]

You might want to add this to your favourites, the Icelandic Met Office site, always worth a look for snow junkies.

 

http://en.vedur.is/

 

Tom.

Edited September 18, 2013 by TomBR7

[Guest William Grimsley]

Decent amount of snow here  http://panocam.skiline.cc/lauberhorn

Not.

[LincolnSnowstorm]

Not.

Lot of hard work went into your reply to weatherguy  but It was good at the time of the post for september , its very early season so snow melts

 heres looking up at the mountain when he posted  that morning  now 

 

http://panocam.skiline.cc/lauberhorn click archive

Edited September 18, 2013 by LincolnSnowstorm

[LincolnSnowstorm]

You might want to add this to your favourites, the Icelandic Met Office site, always worth a look for snow junkies.

 

http://en.vedur.is/

 

Tom.

 

thanks tom , I see it also does earthquakes reports so I can keep an eye out for dodgy volcanoes http://en.vedur.is/#tab=skjalftar

http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/katla/ http://www.jonfr.com/volcano/

[sebastiaan1973]

Lot's of snow next week in large parts of Siberia. In contrast to last year when there was (end of september) a large are of high pressure in Siberia. So the Snow Advance Index will not start with a very low starting point. We need lots of snow in october.

[Gavin Hannah]

Looks like we've had this years Ice melt minimum. 

 

On the 12th Sep, the minimum extent reached a low of 4,809,288 Km Sq.

 

Current sea ice extent is 4,838,927 Km Sq.

 

 

 

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

 

Current scene on top of Ben Nevis.

 

 

 

Current Snow situation

 

Edited September 19, 2013 by IBringTheHammer

[weatherguy]

Hehe thank you LS 

[Gavin Hannah]

Ok, so, a massive 30K jump in sea ice extent over the past 24hrs.

 

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

 

Yesterdays Image

 

Todays Image

 

A considerable growth all around the sea ice and some top ups of snow on land.

 

Enjoy!

 

Note, to really see the difference, open each image in a new tab and switch between the two. Much easier to spot the new growth.

Edited September 20, 2013 by IBringTheHammer