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Weekly animation. The Chukchi Sea is quickly filling in and the Bering Sea gained its first substantial ice cover. Growth is slow in most areas, however. Kara is still struggling to gain any ice and continues lowest on record.
As for an ice bridge to Iceland, keep in mind that most of the maps posted here are "extent" maps, which means anything above 15% ice cover over areas of 10s of km2 are displayed as solid white. The animation above is concentration, so is a slightly better representation of how much ice is actually there.
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Here's the projected values, with the GFS 7 day forecast included. The values below in brackets are from 3 days ago, to show the change in projections.
Warmest: 7.4C (7.5C)
Coldest: 2.0C (1.4C)
Top 10: 6.5C (6.1C)
Bottom 10: 3.0C (2.3C)
81-10: 5.0C (4.6C)The ranges of 4.0C to 4.5C and 5.0C to 5.5C are both at 17.7%, the highest of the bunch. The range from 4.0C to 6.0C covers 64.9% of the probability.
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Here is the projected CET again, but only the one with the GFS forecast data included. I've added the distribution of projected finishing ranges too.
Warmest: 7.5C
Coldest: 1.4C
Top 10: 6.1C
Bottom 10: 2.3C
81-10: 4.6CThe most likely finish is between 3.5C and 4.0C (16.5%), but the grouping from 3.5C to 6.0C covers 71%
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Here are the same projections, updated from yesterday.
Warmest: 8.2C
Coldest: -0.5C
Top 10: 6.5C
Bottom 10: 1.1C
81-10: 4.3CSame as above, but with the GFS 7 day forecast included (rough estimate from eyeballing the min and max in the CET area).
Warmest: 7.7C
Coldest: 1.2C
Top 10: 6.1C
Bottom 10: 2.1C
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Samuel Hayes explores how Arctic Amplification impacts the UK's winter weather, and how it links into the stratosphere, sea ice, snow cover and more.
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Here's the CET for December projected forward using the data from previous years.
Projected finishing values:
Warmest: 8.5C
Coldest: -0.6C
Top 10: 6.6C
Bottom 10: 1.1C
81-10: 4.3CSame as above, but with the GFS 7 day forecast included (rough estimate from eyeballing the min and max in the CET area).
Warmest: 7.9C
Coldest: 1.0C
Top 10: 6.3C
Bottom 10: 2.1C
81-10: 4.5C- 1
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7 minutes ago, andreas said:
Hi - I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this, so please feel free to delete/move. But I rather grimly wonder when we have synoptic patterns like today's that deliver only rain whether these are events that fifty years (or even thirty years) ago would have brought low level snow. Obviously it's never possible to give definitive answers but I'd be interested in views on which all-rain events (for low ground) over recent years would have been most likely to have delivered snow in the past. Thanks
Interestingly, @Singularity put out an article today dealing with this issue, at least partially. Might be worth a read.High Sensitivity of Snow to Climate Change in Temperate Maritime Climates - Metswift
WWW.METSWIFT.COMIn ocean-driven climates, winter snowfall responds strongly to even slight warming. Not even mountains are immune, as the...- 1
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1 minute ago, summer blizzard said:
Upward adjustment?
Downward, 8.70 to 8.51C
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Yep, final values have updated.
November had 20 days above the 81-10 average and 10 days below.
4 days were in the top 5 warmest and 1 days was the warmest on record, the 18th.Below is the daily mean for November compared to the 81-10 average, max, min, top 5 and bottom 5 values.
The same as above, but for the year so far.
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We enter December as 2nd lowest on record, slightly above 2016
However, the main reason we're above 2016 is due to Hudson Bay. We are currently 15th highest, while 2016 was 2nd lowest (for November 30th), a difference of over half a million km2.
Conversely, we are once again lowest on record for the Russian Arctic Sea's and the Central Arctic
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We enter December as 2nd lowest on record, slightly above 2016
However, the main reason we're above 2016 is due to Hudson Bay. We are currently 15th highest, while 2016 was 2nd lowest (for November 30th), a difference of over half a million km2.
Conversely, we are once again lowest on record for the Russian Arctic Sea's and the Central Arctic
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Assuming that actual daily values will be +/- 1.5C your estimates, RJS, that gives a range of 8.3C to 8.7C.
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Strangely, the daily values have been confirmed up to the 26th, and are at 9.0C (8.954). It also confirms a new daily record for the 18th (12.8C)
If someone can give me a rough estimate of the range of CET values the last 4 days, I can probably narrow down the final figure to within half a degree or so. -
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December 2020 C.E.T. and EWP forecast contests -- start of the new contest year for 2020-2021
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Here's the projected values, with the GFS 7 day forecast included. The values below in brackets are from 2 days ago, to show the change in projections.
Warmest: 7.2C (7.4C)
Coldest: 2.3C (2.0C)
Top 10: 6.6C (6.5C)
Bottom 10: 3.4C (3.0C)
81-10: 5.3C (5.0C)
Quite a big change from 2 days back. There is now a 30% chance of finishing close to average (between 4.1C and 5.1C), 14% chance of below average (< 4.1C) and a 56% chance of above average (> 5.1C).
5.5 - 6.0C has the highest probability at the moment (24.2%). A well above average month looking likely if we can't get that cold spell in the final week.