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How does September 29th compare to prevous years? I'm guessing it's typically a few days earlier. Minimum Temperature Last 24h - 09/29/2021 at 09:00 UTC No.LocationStation IDAmount 1Altnaharra (United Kingdom)03044 -0.3°C 2Aonach Mor (United Kingdom)03041 0.1°C 3Aviemore (United Kingdom)03063 1.1°C 4Tain Range (United Kingdom)03062 1.3°C 5Loch Glascarnoch (United Kingdom)03031 1.4°C 6Cairnwell (United Kingdom)03072 1.5°C 7West Freugh (United Kingdom)03132 1.6°C 8Eskdalemuir (United Kingdom)03162 2.3°C 9Bealach Na Ba No2 (United Kingdom)03039 2.5°C 10Great Dun Fell (United Kingdom)03227 2.9°C 11Tulloch Bridge (United Kingdom)03047 3.3°C 12Redesdale (United Kingdom)03230 3.7°C 13Glen Ogle (United Kingdom)03148 3.9°C 14Shobdon (United Kingdom)03520 3.9°C 15Stornoway (United Kingdom)03026 3.9°C Script courtesy of Michael Holden of Relay Weather. Data courtesy of Ogimet World Daily High and Low 24 Hour Temperatures with Maximum World Rainfall in Fahrenheit and Inches WWW.ELDORADOWEATHER.COM 24 Hour Daily High and Low World Temperatures with Maximum World Precipitation / Rainfall including Northern Hemisphere High and Low Temperatures, Southern Hemisphere, United States... United Kingdom Interactive Average First Frost Date Map WWW.PLANTMAPS.COM United Kingdom Interactive Average First Frost Date Map

Here's another pic of ice around Wrangle Island. I'm not sure if there is any obvious increase in the scattered ice but there's a bit more ice in the bays along the Siberian Coast. https://www.polarview.aq/images/105_S1jpgfull/S1A_EW_GRDM_1SDH_20210918T190258_CBE1_N_1.final.jpg

Found this satellite pic of the Siberian Coast SW of Wrangle Island. You might have to zoom in some but it's high def and shows it well. There's 10-20% ice there and probably some new frasil/grease ice that does not show. Note the snow on the mountains and sea ice growing away from the Siberian coast. Daily temperature range on land there is about -5C by day to -10C at night - and falling - but sea temperature is hovering around 0C. A gentle offshore breeze would likely drop the temperature significantly and set off refreezing. https://www.polarview.aq/images/105_S1jpgfull/S1B_IW_GRDH_1SDV_20210912T190256_03A8_N_1.final.jpg

Getting closer again. Minimum Temperature Last 24h - 09/13/2021 at 08:00 UTC No.LocationStation IDAmount 1Redesdale (United Kingdom)03230 1.7°C 2Loch Glascarnoch (United Kingdom)03031 2.2°C 3Aonach Mor (United Kingdom)03041 3.2°C 4Cairnwell (United Kingdom)03072 3.5°C 5Albemarle (United Kingdom)03238 5.5°C 6Great Dun Fell (United Kingdom)03227 5.5°C 7Bealach Na Ba No2 (United Kingdom)03039 5.6°C 8Edinburgh Gogarbank (United Kingdom)03166 5.7°C 9Spadeadam (United Kingdom)03224 5.9°C 10Drumalbin (United Kingdom)03155 6.7°C 11Lough Fea (United Kingdom)03911 6.7°C 12Shap (United Kingdom)03225 6.7°C 13Eskdalemuir (United Kingdom)03162 6.9°C 14Aboyne (United Kingdom)03080 7°C 15Charterhall (United Kingdom)03158 7°C Script courtesy of Michael Holden of Relay Weather. Data courtesy of Ogimet World Daily High and Low 24 Hour Temperatures with Maximum World Rainfall in Fahrenheit and Inches WWW.ELDORADOWEATHER.COM 24 Hour Daily High and Low World Temperatures with Maximum World Precipitation / Rainfall including Northern Hemisphere High and Low Temperatures, Southern Hemisphere, United States...

I follow the escapades of the increasing numbers of brave (or foolish?) leisure sailors who attempt to get through the Northwest Passage each year without ice class vessels. (There should be a reality series covering it each summer as there are some very interesting stories come out in blogs afterwards.) There has been a Covid ban last year and this but I still check what might have been. Colder than average temperatures have landed recently, seemingly ending the melt season early. Ice in the main bottleneck amongst the islands of the Nunavut Archepelago looks to have increased marginally in each of the last two weeks when it might normally still be melting. Snows have also settled when there is sometimes none at this time of year. I think it's safe to say it will not open this year now.

I wonder if an amateur station hit 0C anywhere. 0.7C is closest yet from the Met. Minimum Temperature Last 24h - 08/31/2021 at 09:00 UTC No.LocationStation IDAmount 1Tulloch Bridge (United Kingdom)03047 0.7°C 2Cairnwell (United Kingdom)03072 3.6°C 3Strathallan (United Kingdom)03144 4.7°C 4Great Dun Fell (United Kingdom)03227 4.9°C 5Bealach Na Ba No2 (United Kingdom)03039 5.8°C 6Loch Glascarnoch (United Kingdom)03031 6°C 7Glen Ogle (United Kingdom)03148 6.3°C 8Tiree (United Kingdom)03100 8.2°C 9Aultbea (United Kingdom)03034 8.5°C 10Edinburgh Gogarbank (United Kingdom)03166 8.5°C 11Tain Range (United Kingdom)03062 8.7°C 12Spadeadam (United Kingdom)03224 9.1°C 13Aviemore (United Kingdom)03063 9.2°C 14Islay: Port Ellen (United Kingdom)03105 9.2°C 15Machrihanish (United Kingdom)03111 9.3°C Script courtesy of Michael Holden of Relay Weather. Data courtesy of Ogimet

Getting closer. 10 of the main Met stations under 5C last night, with 1.9C the lowest, at Shap again. World Daily High and Low 24 Hour Temperatures with Maximum World Rainfall in Fahrenheit and Inches WWW.ELDORADOWEATHER.COM 24 Hour Daily High and Low World Temperatures with Maximum World Precipitation / Rainfall including Northern Hemisphere High and Low Temperatures, Southern Hemisphere, United States...

Cold enough for some frozen windscreens at Shap, maybe? World Daily High and Low 24 Hour Temperatures with Maximum World Rainfall in Fahrenheit and Inches WWW.ELDORADOWEATHER.COM 24 Hour Daily High and Low World Temperatures with Maximum World Precipitation / Rainfall including Northern Hemisphere High and Low Temperatures, Southern Hemisphere, United States... Minimum Temperature Last 24h - 08/27/2021 at 08:00 UTC No.LocationStation IDAmount 1Shap (United Kingdom)03225 2.6°C 2Sennybridge (United Kingdom)03507 2.7°C 3Aboyne (United Kingdom)03080 4°C 4Bala (United Kingdom)03409 4°C 5Altnaharra (United Kingdom)03044 4.5°C 6Tulloch Bridge (United Kingdom)03047 4.5°C 7Shobdon (United Kingdom)03520 5.3°C 8Great Dun Fell (United Kingdom)03227 5.4°C 9Trawscoed (United Kingdom)03503 5.4°C 10Hawarden (United Kingdom)03321 6.3°C 11Bournemouth Airport (United Kingdom)03862 6.4°C 12Pershore (United Kingdom)03529 6.4°C 13Keswick (United Kingdom)03212 6.5°C 14Crosby (United Kingdom)03316 6.6°C 15Exeter Airport No2 (United Kingdom)03844 6.6°C Script courtesy of Michael Holden of Relay Weather. Data courtesy of Ogimet

DMI volume is showing 2021 peeping below that grey 2004-2013 average now - so 2021's low is just below 2018 and only highest for 3 years.

According to DMI, Arctic Ice Volume looks set to nadir higher than 2019 and 2020, close to 2018 (which was late), and so be the highest low since either of 2018 or 2014. (Note the black line for 2021 in the last few weeks is getting obscured by the grey 2003-2014 average.) DMI Modelled ice thickness OCEAN.DMI.DK

Our high is in and I've got 21.2C after 11.2C overnight. My garden is very sheltered by other houses, hedges and fruit trees. It can beat other local temperatures sometimes in spring and summer when it's sunny with a light breeze, as we did with yesterday's 17.9C. I thought that was oddly high until I found a WOW reading that was slighty higher at Osbaldswick, York. It seems conditions currently are right for the southern half of the Vale of York to beat the rest of the UK. I've got 20.0C now but there is slightly higher on WOW around Hull and parts of Lincolnshire. I got too warm in the house and went out for a cooling walk in the breeze but it was not. I got back in gagging for a drink. It's really been that warm, today, which is great after such a horribly wet autumn and winter. Edit - there's a few 20C+ in Lincolnshire, a 22.0C at Snape and 22.7C in SW London. There could be some siting issues but, clearly, it's very warm out there. /Assets/Images/logo-global.png Met Office WOW - Home Page WOW.METOFFICE.GOV.UK The UK Met Office Weather Observation Website (WOW). WOW allows anyone to submit their own weather data, anywhere in the world.

DMI is showing a full ice bridge now. Yet on Baltice, it has vanished and the sea temperature jumped 2-3C. http://baltice.org/pdf/IceChart_20210217_Baltic.pdf

The very cold weather in Europe is trying to form an ice bridge from Denmark to Sweden (57degrees left hand side). It nearly did it a decade ago but I think it last did it properly in the 70s if my memory is correctly remembering something I read somewhere. (This explains why Danes and Swedes have many similarities. In colder centuries past, you could walk between the two in winter sometimes. Famously, soldiers in groups would weigh the ice down under the water level and end up marching across in a foot or two of freezing water. They must have been tough in those days.) http://baltice.org/pdf/IceChart_20210216_Baltic.pdf

Snow 4/10. A few cm and no drifts. Many many dustings of many different types of snow. Still there in shaded parts. Cold 8/10. BFTE burst a pipe join in our garage. This freeze has frozen the garage pipes again. I put a heater in Wednesday night in anticipation of the cold and took it out again Thursday when Look North weather said it would be warmer next night. Whoops! Now, await the thaw with fingers crossed and a plumbers number to hand. Also can't get into my rough shed at the bottom of the garden. We had flooding here - so much flooding this winter - which froze before subsiding but the thick ice is frozen to the grass right up to the the door and inside. I want a thaw to get into my shed but if the thaw comes with more rain, the shed might flood again - like the garage might if the pipework has not held. Roll on spring!

"Temperatures in Ravensworth, North Yorkshire, dropped to minus 15.3C overnight on Thursday, a record February low for England." Https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9252937/Big-freeze-continues-Britain-told-brace-four-inches-snow-50mph-gales-today.html Look North tonight said it got to -16C without mentioning a record. Was -15.3C a record? It seems a little lower than would expect. Maybe it was a record low for Ravensworth?

I cycled through an estate built onto the next village which has no trees or hedges and more modest gardens where some have been replaced with hardstandings for cars (so more urban heat island effect than my village). There were a few daffodils in bloom, along with numerous purple crocuses. (This area would be about 20m above sea level.) On the way, I also noted that the gorse was coming broadly into flower on a south facing road banking. In the strong sun, I 'd have thought it was spring if not for the face-numbing cycling windchill.

England has -13.1C showing in North Yorkshire at Thixendale. https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/

We see blankets of snowdrops locally but they only came out en masse a few days ago. Given how cold it has been, it's surprising how advanced the daffodils are. They are reaching mature heights in many places and numerous heads have turned pale so should start yellowing next week. Last Friday, I spotted a lone lilic-coloured crocus in a domestic bed that has hundreds in the spring. It looked sadly isolated yet was cheering at the same time. The oddest thing is how much the grass needs cutting. I think it's down to all the moss we have from 200%+ rain in January (according to the Met O anomaly map) which, added to a wet December, has stubbornly flooded the bottom of my garden for weeks. The thick and extensive moss must keep the grass roots warmer so it has been shooting up so that it is strangely tall and thin but a little sparse. If it turns dry, I will mow the lawns ... and then wonder what to do about all the moss. I am at around 30m in the Vale of York.

-9.7C at Sennybridge and -9.2C at Topcliffe' https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?ind=03507&lang=en&decoded=yes&ndays=2&ano=2021&mes=01&day=25&hora=21 https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?ind=03265&lang=en&decoded=yes&ndays=2&ano=2021&mes=01&day=25&hora=21

Not much snow but wind has blown 5-foot drifts in the Yorkshire Dales https://twitter.com/i/status/1352285345799409669

Besides the snow problems in Northern UK:

Great Lakes Ice cover for this week of each year tends to agree. https://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/prods/CVCHDCTGL/20210111180000_CVCHDCTGL_0011406041.pdf

Snow in northern Texas is not unusual though reports of up to 9 inches is a good amount. There has been at least 4 significant snow events there this winter, though, with records broken in October for both snow and temperature in two unusually early winter storm events. I don't think snow has made it to Houston yet this season, where I used to live many years ago. That would be unusual. It snows there about once every 3 years and settles about 1 in 10, though recent years have seen more light instances. It snowed 3 times one winter and 2 times another around 17/18 and 18/19. I still have family in Texas. Snow is still a rare treat for them.

It's been snowing lightly to moderately here for 3 hours in the Vale of York. 1-2cm has been enough to make local roads dodgy as they don't seem to have gritted. Mrs A's school in W.Yorks has closed after local staff got in and reported slippery roads, too. 0.4C. M62 is down to one lane at Junction 26 but it actually looks better over the top of the Pennines where it has probably not been snowing as long. https://www.motorwaycameras.co.uk/england/m62/eastbound/traffic-camera/1261

Regular very light wintery showers with sunny intervals - icing sugar, graupel then very light "normal" flakes, all settling but too little to measure (at about 30m elevation). That's 5 dustings of snow this season which all showed as rain on radar. Currently 0.1C after -2.3C overnight.