Snow & Ice coverage in the Northern Hemisphere Winter 2019/20

[Kiwi]

Seems unusually early Kazan isn't particularly far north. About the same latitude as Moscow. 55 degrees.

[Turnedoutniceagain]

More widespread snowfall now we're past the equinox.

 

[Aleman]

LOTS of snow activity expected over the next week in LOTS of places:

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?mode=16&ech=6&carte=1

 

Edited September 24, 2019 by Aleman

[Aleman]

You can now see snow growing day by day and Arctic sea ice starting to increase again:

Snow cover looks set to roughly QUADRUPLE in the next 5 days as winter moves into S+W Russia and NW USA:

https://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?mode=16&ech=6&carte=1

 

 

 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

[ItNeverSnowsInWindsor]

Isn’t it meant to snow in Alberta, Canada this weekend ? Another early start ?

[summer blizzard]

 

33 minutes ago, prolongedSnowLover said:

Isn’t it meant to snow in Alberta, Canada this weekend ? Another early start ?

The Canadian guy here informs us that it snow more or less all year in Alberta and October is certainly not that unusual.

Montana is forecast record levels for October though.

[ItNeverSnowsInWindsor]

30 minutes ago, summer blizzard said:

 

The Canadian guy here informs us that it snow more or less all year in Alberta and October is certainly not that unusual.

Montana is forecast record levels for October though.

But it’s only September still this weekend.

[cheeky_monkey]

5 hours ago, prolongedSnowLover said:

But it’s only September still this weekend.

it started snowing here last year on Sept 13th ....im not Canadian by the way i just live in Alberta

Edited September 26, 2019 by cheeky_monkey

[BLAST FROM THE PAST]

Those worried about lack of early cold pooling to our NE and Russia need not worry this year......interesting autumn coming methinks

 BFTP

[Ice Day]

Significant snow gains in north east Canada and far east of Russia.  Sea Ice gains above Alaska as well. 

  

The sea ice appears to have bottomed out slightly earlier than average this year!

Edited September 26, 2019 by Ice Day

[feb1991blizzard]

5 minutes ago, Ice Day said:

 

The sea ice appears to have bottomed out slightly earlier than average this year!

We could have done with a bigger melt season, i was hoping we would beat 2010 but in the end all those forecasts in the climate thread were well bust, not even close to the record.

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

9 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

We could have done with a bigger melt season, i was hoping we would beat 2010 but in the end all those forecasts in the climate thread were well bust, not even close to the record.

It was the 2nd lowest on record and below 2010 

 

 

[mathematician]

16 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

We could have done with a bigger melt season, i was hoping we would beat 2010 

But why??? 

[feb1991blizzard]

13 minutes ago, mathematician said:

But why??? 

 

17 minutes ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

It was the 2nd lowest on record and below 2010 

 

 

Sorry i meant 2012, have no idea why i put 2010 as had no idea what 2010's was like anyway, - the reason is we had one of the winters most  leathered with Easterlies since about 95-96, sure there is more science to it that just how big the melt is though admittedly but there was some analogues built by a climate scientist built in the climate thread and does show a big melt season does increase the chances of blocking - nowhere near a uniform science but just another one of the 5 percenters that load the dice in our favour.

Edited September 26, 2019 by feb1991blizzard

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

No worries @feb1991blizzard well the snow cover is doing well and we are already seeing / have seen some blocking to the north / north west, hopefully we end up with a snow filled winter (it won't take much to beat last year's terrible effort)

[ItNeverSnowsInWindsor]

9 hours ago, cheeky_monkey said:

it started snowing here last year on Sept 13th ....im not Canadian by the way i just live in Alberta

Wasn’t last year’s snowfall record breaking in Calgary for a single day ?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/10/03/calgary-alberta-province-just-saw-unprecedented-october-snowfall-winter-gets-off-huge-start-canada/%3foutputType=amp

[SMU]

Current snow forecast for montana over the weekend.

50 inches.

[Seasonality]

More snow on the way for the High Tatras next week. Looks like we'll avoid last autumn's warm dry horror. Nice and damp here in Warsaw too, much needed to replenish the water levels. 

[Aleman]

"I suspect there will be some daily temperature and daily snowfall records broken in some locations during the next few days."

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/09/arctic-express-coming-to-northwest.html

 

 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

[Tim Bland]

Heavy snow forecast for the Alps in a weeks time. Good news for my Xmas trip..fingers  

 

[Winter wonder]

There is a buzz of excitement as we see early snow in locations across the northern hemisphere. Ski resorts in most places had a bumper year last as well.  My point is this will be an opportunity to really see how much of an impact a prolonged spell of low Solar really can have and what that means going forward.  Cycle 24 was very weak and cycle 25 is predicted to be the same or even weaker.

[summer blizzard]

When do the Scottish Highlands usually get their first sustained snow?