Nordic Snowman

Thanks for the comments. Cheers John! It's only 10km further W where I'll be going next spring. I'll still be in Lesjaskog next winter but my move to Bjorli is even better as I'll be on top of the ski lifts Bjorli gets even more snow and so my photos will get even snowier

Yes, many more photos after 70-100cm of snow fell during the last 24hrs http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/...ead/232807.aspx

The grass does appear from mid May but it isn't green It's actually horrible through late May and the whole of June. Mud and waterlogged forests and fields... even mudslides around my location too. I don't cut the grass until well into July. Luckily I only have to wait until September for my first flakes again which is good when one is as obsessed as me I really don't like summer and I'm so grateful for the surrounding mountains which allow me to at least see snow on their tops right through.

Been snowing heavily of late with much more snow to come in the days ahead:-

Took some more photos today. Some around my house and others from around the village...

Hi all! Still snowing but lighter now but some heavy snow is likely later tonight with lighter snow tomorrow. Heavy snow and potential blizzards are likely Sunday night and through much of Monday though. Drier by mid-week with clearer skies but temperatures then falling accordingly, down to -30 something. I may open up a B&B at some point. Let me know if you would be interested in visiting :lol: !!

Thanks for the comments. Snowing heavily now. My live webcam is on...

More heavy snow and potential blizzards are likely in the days ahead. Currently snowing and things are set to deteriorate through the day. More photos will be posted during the weekend.

85cm of snow has fallen since Fridayand here are the latest pictures from around my village:-

Some photos from around my house after the recent snow:- The reason why I chose to show the car is because you can see the webcam and the 'hump' as it has been referred to beside the car. :lol: ...And the other side of the 'hump' is this:- (N.B The little tree thing is located in a metre deep trench. We have a channel with running melt water when the snow thaws and it takes a good 40cm snowfall just to fill that up and to get it on level pegging with the ground - which was achieved in late October) One view of my weather station:- And another view of the station:- Enroute to the shed to get some firewood:- And the shed itself:- Garden view:- Front Pathway looking out:- Front Pathway in:- Currently snowing lightly. Risk of heavier snow again tomorrow. Around -7.5c. :lol:

Cheers for that! Just been out to take my weather observation and took a photo of my pathway which leads to our firewood shed ... that's all blocked up and needs urgent clearing in the morning. Will be switching the cam off soon as there is not so much point during the night (besides, my pc needs a rest - major CPU usage today) but it will be on again tomorrow if the snow continues to fall.... and my internet holds out as it can be unreliable here at the best of times). Goodnight dudes from arctic Norway!!

Yes Baldie Had 40cm of snow today and now over 104cm of level snow. Much more snow to come in the days ahead. I have one or two photos on TWO or on my forum atm but I will get round to posting some nice ones here - maybe tomorrow. It's been very busy today with snow clearing etc and my Mrs got stuck in drifts earlier. You can check the forecast on my site later tonight after I update it but I am preparing for potentially much more snow ahead.

Very true. 1999/2000 was great for snowfall. And talking of snow, it is coming down very heavy now.

Hi John. Hope you have a nice time. I'm sure the snow will be okay but as you say, it has been a bad year for the whole of Europe. Snowing here now and I have got my live cam switched on. The heaviest of the snow is letr in the early hours and beyond - it's only just getting going. 17cm is really crap. Last year we had over 100cm at this time. The year before we had over a metre and we had 80cm in 2004. Peak depths vary from year to year, usually around Mid March or late March with level depths between 100 and 200cm on average. But I have seen nearly 300cm of lying snow during my first year here in 1999/2000. 1200cm of snow fell during that winter. 2003 saw a peak depth of close to 220cm as well. The bright side is that things can only get better...

It's been well documented about the poor winter to date. No need to go down that road! Winter snowfall to date: 154cm (much less than normal) Current depth: 17cm (testiment to the much higher than normal temperatures) December mean: 0.1c (nearly 9c above normal making it the first Decmber ever to have a mean above freezing and smashing the old record by nearly 5c :o A zonal flavour atm but snow is increasingly going to figure on our agenda I would imagine. Variable temperatures but in the main remaining below freeezing with the exception of this afternoon where we may get 1-3c tops. Skiing is good despite the terrible winter and we have had a permanent snow cover since the first big snow back in October. Considering this is as bad as it can possibly get, I should be happy. But frustration can bring you down.... you just have to look at various model discussion threads for that Tonight may see the start of the action. Blizzards are on my forecast agenda with the potential for some damaging gusts in the early hours. Periods of snow and snow showers through the coming days (though dry on Thursday) and saturday is the day which poses the next threat of something substantial. It could all go wrong as this mobile set up is always borderline in that if the lows take slightly different paths, very different outcomes would arise. Part of the fun I guess.... but not when you become desperate as I have become As always, more info and future photos etc can be obtained from my site, presuming it doesn't go t*ts up of course. And anything is possible this winter it would seem....

The last few weeks have, in a nut shell, been disastrous for winter sports and winter fans like myself in Norway. The media have been in a frenzy over the mild winter weather and the ensembles speak for themselves. From having 40cm of lying snow at the back end of October and with -19c being registered early in November, temperatures have risen much above the norm for this time of year. We are currently 11c over normal for this month. Autumn was the mildest on record and December is on course to being a new record as well... perhaps smashing the existing record into oblivion. The warmest mean was in 1991 with -3.6c, some 5c above normal. Atm, we are 11c above. Anyway, things are set to improve from now on with snow already falling again. The potential exists for some heavy falls through Friday and the weekend but there are already black clouds on the horizon regarding the middle of next week. IF things do turn milder with a SW'ly flow in the run up to Xmas, then I am pretty confident that this December will indeed end as the mildest ever recorded. And if it's bad here, spare a thought for Oslo. Potentially, and I emphasis that word, Oslo could be quite 'tropical' with a fohn wind from the middle of the week. 850s are progged at nearly 8c and whilst we speak of temperature inversions, this would not be the case in the SE. Flowers have in fact come out down there and it is also very rare for Oslo not to have any snow around Xmas. But for now the focus is on a good few days in Lesjaskog. It's snowing now and things should hopefully pan out to deliver some heavy falls. I will worry about the run up to Xmas in a few days time

It's actually nice to read that at least somewhere is having some winter. That's more than we can say for Europe.

It's also going to be very, very close up here in Lesjaskog. The mean September temperature here is 6.2c. Up to and including the 28th, it was running at 10.3c... + 4.1c. Tonight I will find out if it broke the record which was only set back in 1999 with 11c. A close one.

Thinking of buying a weather station and wireless outdoor cam but I am put off by the complexities of setting it up. I am the world's most stupid person when it comes to setting stuff up My website was built entirely by Yahoo's Pagebuilder and although my pro account supports FTP, Perl and MySQL blah, blah, I haven't used them because I wouldn't know how. Does anyone here use Weather Display and if so, how hard was it to integrate into your website? Can it be done using WYSIWYG editors? Any help/tips greatly appreciated.

Yes, the debate over synoptics is a real classic as we do often see set ups as shown in the above link for 1981. But the real debate is this: are N'ly winds as cold as they once were? I guess it depends on all sorts of factors, not least the source of cold air and the timing of it all. I agree that low pressure over Scandi doesn't always spell good news for Norway. But in the example above, it is clear as to the reason why - a classic Icelandic Low. But I don't do too bad here as my altitude does help keep Lesjaskog white Greenland Highs can be great for perhaps all of us but we can see how they can be a pain as well if in association with a deep Icelandic Low and relatively high pressure close to the S of Britain. A nightmare set up but one which has undoubtably become more common in recent years.

Plenty of log cabins here Steve... let me know and I'll ensure a note worthy discount for you. Book now to back-up your winter hope's Ian - lol! Needless to say, I hope for a strong N'ly jet and with plenty of lows spinning out from E of Greenland and moving across N Scandi as opposed to moving SSE through the N Sea It's getting close to entering the battle positions Enforcer - Ian does mean the Scandi Low. I am not keen on the Icelandic Low but a good Scandi trough is right up my street

Seems a good shout to me. Roll on autumn when we may get some weather excitement :lol:

ECM's autumn prognosis shows no surprises; milder than average across NW Europe and colder towards E Europe. The highest temperature anomolies (positive) are over Greenland:- ECM's Sept-Nov prognosis By all accounts their spring forecast (for Norway at any rate) was considerably wrong but we can never disregard ECM. Of course, having 3 months grouped together is not of much use but I guess it is something to look over given this 'quiet' time of year :lol: