Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere Autumn/Winter 2014

[Ice Day]

Barrow AK broke it's 2nd September snow record 4.4 inches 

 

Good spot!  Some new snow across Alaska and Canada and some gains over Russia (and a smaller loss!)

 

[Martin R]

Tweet i saw earlier from Calgary 

https://twitter.com/jordanwitzel/status/507193387032662016/photo/1   hope link works

just now https://twitter.com/PrairieChasers/status/507272034628284416/photo/1

Edited September 3, 2014 by baldie

[Interitus]

Tweet i saw earlier from Calgary 

https://twitter.com/jordanwitzel/status/507193387032662016/photo/1   hope link works

just now https://twitter.com/PrairieChasers/status/507272034628284416/photo/1

 

Not bad for 2200 metres / 7200 feet altitude!

[LincolnSnowstorm]

Looks to me there is more 3rd September positivity than any year going back to 1999 ...nice to see so early  http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2014&ui_day=246&ui_set=2

 

We need separate threads for light and heavy snow comments/articles this one can go with the light stuff!

Edited September 4, 2014 by LincolnSnowstorm

[bryan629]

Goodnight Svalbard, see you next year

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LincolnSnowstorm]

Don't worry sunrise at 4.14 am this morning, 24 hour darkness is not till 26th October and the snowfall always looks best in the dockyard flood lights!

[frozencanals]

morning all

 

 

Nice to see this thread is up an running again, I still love watching the snow creeping towards us over the coming months, and it is looking quite positive although its very early days.

 

FC

Edited September 5, 2014 by frozencanals

[Tubs]

Seems to be some increases and losses recently.

[Skullzrulerz]

 

A Good Bombing of snow hitting Canada.

 

 

 

A spot of snow in the usa!

[Tubs]

Looking over the last few days there seems to be quite large losses and gains of ice and snow. Can't be right surely?

[damianslaw]

Snowfall forecast for Calgary Tuesday.

[March Blizzard]

Snowfall forecast for Calgary Tuesday.

High of 24C on Sunday...high of 2C on Tuesday. Could be a shock to the system, crazy weather!

[cheeky_monkey]

High of 24C on Sunday...high of 2C on Tuesday. Could be a shock to the system, crazy weather!

Happens quite a lot esp in spring and autumn...went from 28c on Oct 1st 2012 to 0c and snow on Oct 2nd 2012.

[March Blizzard]

Happens quite a lot esp in spring and autumn...went from 28c on Oct 1st 2012 to 0c and snow on Oct 2nd 2012.

 

Of course the opposite can happen in winter when a Chinook rolls into town, right?

[Ross Andrew Hemphill]

Snow is building in North and North East Russia!!  

 

 

 

[cheeky_monkey]

Of course the opposite can happen in winter when a Chinook rolls into town, right?

Certainly can I have witnessed the effect where a Chinook has not made far enough to reach the eastern part of the city..the west can be +5c and just 3 or 4 miles to the east it stays at -15c

[March Blizzard]

Certainly can I have witnessed the effect where a Chinook has not made far enough to reach the eastern part of the city..the west can be +5c and just 3 or 4 miles to the east it stays at -15c

 

That's incredible! I wouldn't have thought that the boundary would be so abrupt and result in such a disparity of temperatures within such a short distance.

[Iceni]

Certainly can I have witnessed the effect where a Chinook has not made far enough to reach the eastern part of the city..the west can be +5c and just 3 or 4 miles to the east it stays at -15c

 

Not quite as much of a contrast, but I've phoned friends in Cambridge 20 miles away and told them about the 6" of snow out in the countryside and they've gone "What snow?"

 

When we make the trip into the city, the snow's vanished about a 1 mile radius all around it - the Urban Heat Island effect in action.

[stewfox]

NH snow levels very high for the time of year week 35

 

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=0

[4wd]

NH snow levels very high for the time of year week 35

 

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=0

Looks like it was a touch higher last year though.

[summer blizzard]

NH snow levels very high for the time of year week 35

 

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=0

 

We're ranked in the thirties so well below average and below last year.

[cyclonic happiness]

We're ranked in the thirties so well below average and below last year.

need lower snow cover in America this year, so they don't stoke up the bloomin' jet stream into some enormous storm making machine, like last winter.

[summer blizzard]

need lower snow cover in America this year, so they don't stoke up the bloomin' jet stream into some enormous storm making machine, like last winter.

Disagree, the correlation between a cold eastern Us and western Europe is quite high.

Last year was just bad luck.

[bionicman101]

Longyearbyen seems to have had another flurry of snow today given a few warmer days and melting this week. Looks good in the setting sun.

[damianslaw]

Disagree, the correlation between a cold eastern Us and western Europe is quite high.

Last year was just bad luck.

 

It very much depends on whether heights build sufficiently over Greenland - you would expect with a deep long wave trough over NE USA an equally strong ridge would develop ahead of it over mid atlantic sending down trough action from the NW, but last year this never happened- lots of other factors need to come into play But yes a meridional flow over USA should in normal circumstances increase chances of colder blasts for us. Last year was preety extreme.