Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere 2011/12

[karyo]

Gains in the Alps, scandinavia and siberia today. The ice appears to be making a mad dash towards reaching some coasts also!

Romania too!

Karyo

[Isolated Frost]

Romania too!

Karyo

Yep the Carpathians! Note Iceland aswell.

[Isolated Frost]

Currently snowing at Kiruna airport as progged. Should turn to rain tomorrow morning.

[cyclonic happiness]

The ice is really getting a shift on now and the snow levels are going way up! Once the ice hits land, it'll skyrocket!

Good to see so much in Europe so early too!

[Luton Weather]

[weathe20]

And whats this showing?

[Robbie Garrett]

And whats this showing?

The 0*C Isotherm - not sure what level though, I presume the numbers are what height in (M) it is though.

Edited October 10, 2011 by Robbie Garrett

[johnholmes]

And whats this showing?

its showing at what level the zero degree isotherm is in metres, so for example, 1200m over much of the Uk and 400m south of Iceland.

To complicate matters its also showing the height, in decametres, of the 1000-500mb values.

They are the colours ranging from dark purple to yellow/orange.

Edited October 10, 2011 by johnholmes

[Ferreiro]

Ljubljana (Slovenia) was the firtst european capital which have seen snowflakes.

[Isolated Frost]

Ljubljana (Slovenia) was the firtst european capital which have seen snowflakes.

Reykjavik saw some from that cold pool that spread southwards, at least on the suburbs, in the last few days. But yes, Ljubjana is the first mainland one.

[chionomaniac]

Worth putting up the latest snow anomaly and ranking figures from Rutgers so that we can see how this year compares with the last two.

http://climate.rutge...gs.php?ui_set=1

This year we are close to average and very similar to last year. Of note is that it is October and November that are the big growing months. With the September snow figure coming in at 5222 thousand sq km, there is still a way to go to reach 46709 thousand sq km that we may expect by the end of January, though I would like to see positive anomalies for the next two months.

Interestingly the recent trend seems to be less snow remaining in summer but more snow than average in winter - anyway September is ranked 22/43 - nicely positioned.

[trisnow]

Good morning everyone!

Last year some of you may remember I made a web application to display historical images from the Naval Ice Center (the same source as the images you've been seeing in this thread)

I have updated the app here

What the app enables you to do is enter in a year to start from and a start and end day and it will fetch the images from http://www.natice.noaa.gov/ and display them in rows and tables... It makes it very easy to compare previous years.

Once again you can check it out here: http://www.snowicecheck.co.uk/

Regards, Matt

(PS - cyclonic happiness - you might want to edit your original post for this thread (if possible) and add a link to the checker so people are aware of it?)

Thanks for this

I thought there was something like this last year and thanks for taking the effort to buy a domain and upload it etc.

Works really well and quickly as a comparison to years gone by.

After looking at 2009 2010 and 2011 for the 9th October it looks very even between them all, all three have gains and losses in some areas when compared but looks like if the white pixels were counted on all three it would be pretty close!

[trisnow]

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[trisnow]

I've been a little sad and worked out the snow coverage in terms of pixels since 2004 for the 9th October to see how it stands up at this point .....

YEAR PIXELS %

2010 = 18404 - %7.02

2006 = 17555 - %6.69

2004 = 16706 - %6.37

2009 = 14558 - %5.55

2011 = 14451 - %5.51

2007 = 14405 - %5.49

2005 = 14261 - %5.44

2008 = 11393 - %4.34

So does that mean anything in terms of how our winters turned out?? Not a thing unless anyone can see any correlations between the years and temp or snow ranking etc lol

Apart from a coincidence that 2010 is the top?

Edited October 10, 2011 by trisnow

[cyclonic happiness]

The anomoly map shows that we are starting to lose the red pixels (which show deficit) and gaining more grey (which show positive), and look at the positive anoms' in Europe, in the Alps and the Scandi mountains!!

[Aaron]

http://www2.liikennevirasto.fi/alk/english/kelikamerat/kamera-C1453202.html

Snowing in Finnish Lapland.. their permanent snow pack should be arriving soon.. or early November at the least

[liltbrockie]

Thanks for this

I thought there was something like this last year and thanks for taking the effort to buy a domain and upload it etc.

Works really well and quickly as a comparison to years gone by.

After looking at 2009 2010 and 2011 for the 9th October it looks very even between them all, all three have gains and losses in some areas when compared but looks like if the white pixels were counted on all three it would be pretty close!

Nice one trisnow. Glad someone appreciates it

[Isolated Frost]

http://www2.liikenne...a-C1453202.html

Snowing in Finnish Lapland.. their permanent snow pack should be arriving soon.. or early November at the least

Yep. And in Kiruna

[Ben_Cambs]

Here's the latest update:

[cyclonic happiness]

Thanks for that Ben, the thing hadn't updated when I woke up this morning and them I had to go to work.

Norway looks excellent! and the snow has reached Lake Bakau.

[snowlover2009]

Here's the latest update:

That map is going to really take off next week.

[Lynxus]

That map is going to really take off next week.

It better not take off!!! We need it here. So we can view it!!.....

ohhhhh

I see what you did there..

[snowlover2009]

Wonder if the UK will get any pixels, also eastern europe should get some with the cold air coming through.

[johnholmes]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15216875

apologies if its felt this is in the wrong thread but its both a superb video but also a very sobering one.

[Met4Cast]

Its either snowing or raining on this cam in Scandi

http://195.196.36.242/view/view.shtml?id=11566&imagePath=/mjpg/video.mjpg&size=1

Can't quite work out which. If its snow, its not settling anyway