Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere 2011/12

[A Winter's Tale]

Finnish lapland and NE Norway should see some tomorrow and maybe Tuesday, another northerly flow appears on Thursday/Friday, expect slight dustings.

http://ekstra.htg.no...ta_fullsize.jpg

Cannot link as on phone, but here is Alta in northern Norway.

Well it's a start after a poor autumn for snow in that part of the world!

[Isolated Frost]

http://62.63.51.10/v...x.shtml?id=4094 Hammerfest, brilliant live video cam that you NEED to view!

Alta, which has awoke to a wonderland after a mild autumn.

Alta's ski resort, looking snowy.

Vadso again, this time, a place nearer the town centre.

First of a collection of traffic cams in NE Finland.

A rather eerily unique and tranquil scene just NW of Ivalo.

Quite the snowfall here near Ivalo.

A snowy scene quite far south in lapland- just SE of Sodankyla.

Snowfix for the day- and tonight and tomorrow could see the kola peninsula, far east finnmark and east lapland have a fair amount of snowfall.

I'll leave you on the frosty (not snowy) scene in swedish lapland, near Kiruna, where the building of the Icehotel began a couple of weeks back;

[cyclonic happiness]

Morning all!

Well there are still plenty of positive anomolies in Europe, but not Scadinavia

The snow is still well up though, which is always good news.

(I've put this year and last year for comparison).

this year

last year

[Aaron]

Poor Scandi.. I guess Stockholm won't be breaking last years snow cover of 128 days eh

[Updraft]

Here's the images for Nov 14th as nobody has posted it yet

And North America:

[Cecil Hogmanay Melchett]

Some serious snowcover in Russia generally.Every where else in Europe apart from the extreme edges to the east are snowfree pretty much.

[Weather of Mass Disruption]

Some serious snowcover in Russia generally.Every where else in Europe apart from the extreme edges to the east are snowfree pretty much.

For sure, now they need to start spreading the love!

[Aaron]

It's unusual that the snow in Russia has reached the Caspian Sea, they have winters milder then we do!

[trisnow]

I know pretty much sod all about the weather and terminology etc but have seen people talking about a Euro High? Is that what has caused the snow to just pretty much stop where it has done? Scandi and Western Europe etc?

[Isolated Frost]

Yes basically trisnow, it's limited any potent arctic outbreaks to W Russia (apart from this w-end/monday of course) and has gave dry anticyclonic weather to C Europe and mild southerlies for W Europe.

[cyclonic happiness]

Really is extrodinary how we've almost banished the negative snow anomolies throught the hemisphere.....look.

[Ferreiro]

It's unusual that the snow in Russia has reached the Caspian Sea, they have winters milder then we do!

Sorry, but It's not true. Astrakhan's daily mean in January is -4.8ºC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrakhan

Edited November 15, 2011 by Ferreiro

[J10]

http://forum.netweat...e-15th-november is the first Alps forecast for the 11-12 season. However it has a synoptical forecast for the next 7 days with charts and this is an interesting read for snow prospects for much of Northern Europe.

[snowhope]

Link does not seem to work Jackone

[A Winter's Tale]

Very impressive snow cover for Russia. All we need is a Big Freeze for Eastern Europe and Scandi and our set up is perfect (then we can wait and watch for those beaterlies to develop!!"!).

[Aaron]

Sorry, but It's not true. Astrakhan's daily mean in January is -4.8ºC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrakhan

Parts of the Caspian Sea have a subtropical climate. Astarkhan is not on the Caspian Sea.

[NorthernRab]

Sorry, but It's not true. Astrakhan's daily mean in January is -4.8ºC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrakhan

Aaron is correct - parts of the Caspian Sea area have milder winters on average than parts of the UK, the Baku region (capital of Azerbaijan) for example being milder than many parts of the UK.

Very impressive snow cover for Russia. All we need is a Big Freeze for Eastern Europe and Scandi and our set up is perfect (then we can wait and watch for those beaterlies to develop!!"!).

You're not being greedy enough AWT - as Scottish people what we really want are Northerlies and North Easterlies

Edited November 16, 2011 by NorthernRab

[Ferreiro]

Aaron is correct - parts of the Caspian Sea area have milder winters on average than parts of the UK, the Baku region (capital of Azerbaijan) for example being milder than many parts of the UK.

Ok, Baku (Azerbaijan) is mild in winter. Daily mean in Baku is 4ºC in January, as Glasgow, but russian caspian sea area is by far colder than UK in winter months.

Astrakhan lies on the left bank of the Volga river, close to where it discharges into the Caspian sea at an altitude of 28 meters (92 ft) below the sea level.

Greetings!

Edited November 16, 2011 by Ferreiro

[Ferreiro]

Not snow! It's frozen fog in Kladno, close to Prague (Czech Republic),

[trisnow]

Yes basically trisnow, it's limited any potent arctic outbreaks to W Russia (apart from this w-end/monday of course) and has gave dry anticyclonic weather to C Europe and mild southerlies for W Europe.

Ah right thanks, it does look pretty evident there looking at the pic where the snow just stops.

So if that Euro High hadn't been there for so long then all that lovely snow may have just carried further and further eastwards to our shores?? I'd like to think so!

[cyclonic happiness]

^{Afternoon all!}

^{Well still looking good for everywhere else on Earth, except this side of Europe, but it's very, very early days.}

[cheeky_monkey]

We had a fair bit of snow over the last few days and winter storm coming on thursday with more snow..maybe ill bring some home for xmas for you lot.

[J10]

Link does not seem to work Jackone

is the correct link, sorry about that.

[Daniel Miller]

15th November

14th November

Just the comparison to check on the gains/losses.

[Gavin Hannah]

The snow cover is just immense! I hate that the rest of us are missing out on the fun!