cheeky_monkey

i would expect in 1000yrs time (if we haven't destroyed ourselves) mankind to have reached out and explored our own Galaxy and to have colonized planets in our solar system at least.

Here in Canada you have to clear the pavements outside your house or you are fined..they also have dedicated snow routes on roads where no parking is allowed during the winter months. Schools never shut and you must play outside unless the temperature falls below -23c then you are allowed indoors...I have an AWD SUV..its more of a crossover..its a Ford Edge which Ford does not sell in the UK..I dont put winter tyres on my car as i find them an unnecessary expense..its much more challenging driving in snow in the UK than it ever is in Canada!!

Not sure about 2 warm winters...2010-11 was cold and very snowy..2009-10 was mild with little snow..and of course last winter as you say never even got going.

It has been a very warm 12-14months across most of Canada including alot of the North..we seem to be stuck in a repetitive cycle that started July 2011..it has been mostly dry and warm/mild with very short cooler/cold interludes.

Interesting the record highs levels of sea ice in Antarctica occur at the same time as record lows in the Arctic..2007 & 2012...coincidence?

im not desperate for snow and cold..you can stick up your #*?#....

dont forget the great lakes etc in the US and Canada are relatively warm come early winter so great deal of snow is produced but this amount falls significantly as winter progresses and they get colder and colder to the point were little or no snow is produced...i would guess because the waters to the North of Russia are so cold there will be very little in the way of convective snow produced.

Frost are late this year..had the first air frost outside the city over the weekend..first ground frost occurred in August

i would suggest a WSW component that brings alot snow across the central Rockies...Colorado etc..leading to drying and warming winds to the lee of the mountains ie across the midwest and border states leading to higher temperatures and less snow in those areas.

Lovely autumnal weekend just gone..dry sunny and cool..this weeks looks like Indian summer is kicking in sunny and warm days...24/25c cool nights 5/6c...im finding September is the best month of the year in Western Canada by some distance..not too hot..not too cold..often very sunny with little in the way of rain.

This is very much an El Nino forecast for North America...wet and cold in California and the SE USA, mild and dry across most of Canada and the mid west of the USA...more snow in the north east....I wouldn't not trust accuweather either, they forecast a brutally cold winter last year for Canada and it was the 2nd mildest on record!

Thats because there's no money to be made by saying its going to pretty average..i could say that every year and be right more often than not...but would it get me noticed?..of course not!!

you know its been such a nice summer..i have even considered taking up golf again!

what i wouldn't give for a year like that!

that would be brutally cold here in Western Canada...that Alaskan high is equivalent to a big Greenland high back home

Yep 27-28c today which is 10c above norm today then back down with a bump..15/16 over the weekend..then between 19-23c all next week..no rain in the forecast

these are Autumn charts

shows what incredible run of seasons we had in 2006-7 the 5th warmest summer on record..followed by the warmest autumn on record...followed by the 4th warmest winter on record...followed by the 3rd warmest spring on record...phew what a scorcher!

i actually live here you dont..i can see whats on the ground with my own eyes...here are the janaury stats for Calgary..very little or no snow on the ground through January 2012National Climate Data and Information Archive.docx

Greenland is always pretty cold...as for the USA i live in Canada which is north of the USA there has been no cold weather around at all...in fact its been a warm/hot summer across most of the North American continent this year...plus the link you provided is so small its unreadable.

i have seen rivers in the Rockies that never freeze over even when the temperature is -40c or lower

The reason the Thames dosent freeze over is that it constantly dredged to keep in more free flowing and to take traffic further west..also it has power stations on it or did that would pump out warm waste water into the river keeping the temp of the water above freezing point.

its cold today!!

this is my point..i live in Alberta and most of the winter it was pretty much snow free..yet it shows above normal snow cover for the province through the winter which is total rubbish

Maybe if they went on snow depths it would be a completely different picture,,i guess you could have dusting of snow and that would be classed as a covering?