Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere 2017/18

[Midlands Ice Age]

1 hour ago, throwoff said:

While that dump is great to see remember folks we have seen this plenty of times before and then it's disappeared as quick. The ice is where my eye is drawn, that's more evident of prolonged deep conditions

Yep..

 I love your positivity Throwoff, but you are correct to point to caution.

 So far this years ice looks very similar to 2010. Tick

 The snow advance is now looking very similar . Tick

But how do we get from here to the formation of the Greenie high which brought the really cold weather to us at the end off November 2010? -  It wasn't a Siberian high that caused our cold... 

I am old enough to remember 1962-63. 

It again had an anticyclone to start it.  After a series of troughs and ridges quickly traversed the UK from SW to NE (for about a month, or longer), a high 'stuck' over Western Scotland and eventually it linked up with the Sib high moving into Scandinavia.  Then it was Bingo and we know the rest.

 So what was the ice situation that year? Also what was the SAI?

 There must be a million possible outcomes even when we get both the snow and ice into place. 

How  many of them will bring cold to the UK???

 It will be an incredible chance if we hit the bulls eye again.

Still one can hope...

 MIA

[Turnedoutniceagain]

Snow's almost into the Baltic States now. Good increase in ice-cap too

[Bullseye]

Pretty impressive... 

 

[jvenge]

ECM showing that the arctic has a slight warm anomaly over the next 7 days or so. Although this sounds "bad" for those looking for ice cover grow, compared to some recent years, "slight" is fairly, well, slight. Meaning that arctic ice should continue to grow healthily, at least for the next week anyway.

Some snow cover growth yesterday as well.

Edited October 26, 2017 by jvenge

[Seasonality]

3 hours ago, jvenge said:

ECM showing that the arctic has a slight warm anomaly over the next 7 days or so. Although this sounds "bad" for those looking for ice cover grow, compared to some recent years, "slight" is fairly, well, slight. Meaning that arctic ice should continue to grow healthily, at least for the next week anyway.

Some snow cover growth yesterday as well.

I note there is some cover in Belarus and the Baltics. May not last long this time of year but nice to see.

[joggs]

Should be some decent coverage in Scandi by end of wkend,early next week.

Things look promising for me tbh. 

[slinky1989]

1 hour ago, joggs said:

Should be some decent coverage in Scandi by end of wkend,early next week.

Things look promising for me tbh. 

My brother is in Helsinki at the moment and has reported a light covering of snow there (about 1-2cm).

[Turnedoutniceagain]

Looks v chilly in Svalbard, though I was expecting more snow

http://longyearbyen.kystnor.no/

[Drew]

https://www.webcams.travel/webcam/1264964738-Weather-Tie-3-Hyvinkää-Helsinkiin-Hyvinkää

Current webcam from my old home town in southern Finland (Hyvinkaa). That is quite a lot for this time of year.

[Jimmyh]

check out my fav place http://longyearbyen.kystnor.no/ much earlier much heavier this year than last

[Guest]

https://balticlivecam.com/cameras/estonia/tallinn/view-nordic-hotel-forum/

 

Good baltic live cams in Latvia and Lithuania too, quite consistent and great quality.

[Turnedoutniceagain]

Winter arrives in Scandinavia

[bluearmy]

Could be anecdotal but these charts show better coverage over the Canadian Arctic than last year aswell ? 

We could do with a clever bod showing beginning and end October comparisons for the last couple years and notable ones from the past decade too. 

 

 

[summer blizzard]

3 hours ago, bluearmy said:

Could be anecdotal but these charts show better coverage over the Canadian Arctic than last year aswell ? 

We could do with a clever bod showing beginning and end October comparisons for the last couple years and notable ones from the past decade too. 

 

 

Pressure over Canada is lower the stronger La Nina gets. This Nina is basin wide and so probably having a stronger effect.

[Snowy L]

Do we have a graph showing the rate below 60o?

[SteveB]

Latest chart,

Still looking healthy, ice also looking good.

Lets hope no horrible mild south westerlies set up over the coming few weeks to push back the snow.

[Froze were the Days]

Now waiting for the jet stream to really get going and then you'll see the snowfield retreat, as generally is the case as we go through November.

[blizzard81]

43 minutes ago, SteveB said:

Latest chart,

Still looking healthy, ice also looking good.

Lets hope no horrible mild south westerlies set up over the coming few weeks to push back the snow.

I really like the look of that for the end of October. 

[SteveB]

56 minutes ago, blizzard81 said:

I really like the look of that for the end of October. 

It's not bad is it. Let's hope it at least stays like that rather than retreat back East. 

[bobbydog]

14 hours ago, Snowy L said:

Do we have a graph showing the rate below 60o?

here you go-

looking pretty good.

[Ross Andrew Hemphill]

11 hours ago, SteveB said:

Latest chart,

Still looking healthy, ice also looking good.

Lets hope no horrible mild south westerlies set up over the coming few weeks to push back the snow.

Look at the date, that was last Monday! 

[SteveB]

1 hour ago, Ross Andrew Hemphill said:

Look at the date, that was last Monday! 

I'm fairly sure the date is the 28th which was yesterday!

[Ice Day]

1 hour ago, Ross Andrew Hemphill said:

Look at the date, that was last Monday! 

No, it was definitely yesterday!

[Daniel*]

1 hour ago, Ross Andrew Hemphill said:

Look at the date, that was last Monday! 

Think you need to go specsavers.

We're doing really rather well snow wise in the NH after a 'stall'. 

[Turnedoutniceagain]

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