Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere 2011/12

[Summer Sun]

Thankyou

[thetonynator]

Some of us might take offence at how far west that circle extends. . . .

Edited December 7, 2011 by thetonynator

[Aaron]

What, you mean Little Britain next to Great Britain?

[Wales123098]

Some of us might take offence at how far west that circle extends. . . .

British Isles sooo... also no need to take offence only a weather forum.

[mountain shadow]

Some of us might take offence at how far west that circle extends. . . .

Indeed the Bretons, Normans and Belgians will not be pleased.

:winky:

[Wales123098]

Indeed the Bretons, Normans and Belgians will not be pleased.

:winky:

good point

[Mark Neal.]

Looks like some excellent snow falling in the French alps right now!

La Rosière, France

Here's the HD live cam: http://www.webcam-hd...ere-planica.php you can control it also!

Beautiful!

Thank You for sharing this webcam with us! Really, is a good high quality web cam and also you can move it. Bloody marvelous and the view ain't bad either...When its light that is!

Edited December 8, 2011 by Mark Neal Ballooning

[Aaron]

Look at Scandi go!

This is more like it..

[lorenzo]

Thats got beasterly written all over it surely...

[Harve]

Thats got beasterly written all over it surely...

Hardly, it's perfectly normal for Scandanavia to have snow cover in the winter, even during our most westerly / mildest winters. So it certainly doesn't guarantee an easterly.

[cyclonic happiness]

Morning!

Well here's today's update.

Not much change in Europe's negative anomoly

[Moomin]

Anyone noticed how close the icepack is to linking up with Iceland? Is this normal for the last few decades, I seem to remember people suggesting it used link up to Iceland in the 60s but hadn't done so since.

Moomin

[Gavin Hannah]

I'm not an expert, but I do think it was less frequent in 90's especially. I think it has done so the last few winters though. Don't quote me on that though.

[Cymro]

I was also very intrigued at how the icepack is much more southerly extent on our side of the atlantic this year than comparing to a similar time last year with much colder temperatures in our part of the world, this can only bode well, and if things continue I wouldn't be surprised if Iceland and Greenland linked up before January, they did last year all be it briefly if I remember rightly.

[J10]

Latest Ski Blog now up, a mixed week, with some milder temps, but further snow on the higher slopes.

[Aaron]

Anyone noticed how close the icepack is to linking up with Iceland? Is this normal for the last few decades, I seem to remember people suggesting it used link up to Iceland in the 60s but hadn't done so since.

Moomin

Greenland sea ice briefly touched Iceland's far north coast last year but not much, it's almost doing so now in early December, Iceland is colder then normal right now, so who knows, maybe soon, walking from Nuuk (Greenland capital) to Reykjavik will become possible!

[lottiekent]

Amazing how much the ice has extended in Hudson Bay in just 5 days!

[BornFromTheVoid]

I think the yellow represents sea ice extent, which only require 15% of the ocean area to be covered by ice for it to show up as yellow. So even if it spreads from Greenland to Iceland, I wouldn't try crossing over it quite yet!

[damianslaw]

Significant red anomaly over west russia indicative of the raging jet powering into russia - reminds me of conditions in Dec 2006 which saw europe devoid of much snow. I visited Moscow new year 07 and it actually rained with temps up to 2-3 degree max...

plenty of time for things to change and its pleasing to see scandi white at long last.

[cyclonic happiness]

Morning all!

Nice to see some snow finally getting across some of the Baltic states and Romania.

[cheeky_monkey]

look at the big holes that have opened up across central and western canada...in fact there is a lot less snow in Canada than this actually shows

[thetonynator]

look at the big holes that have opened up across central and western canada...in fact there is a lot less snow in Canada than this actually shows

But going by the anomaly map this doesn't seem to be unusual for this time of year? Unless the anomaly ap is older than the snow extent map.

[cyclonic happiness]

Morning all!

Here's your lovely bunch of images for today

[Gavin Hannah]

Good to see the north of the UK doing well. Was snowboarding on Saturday over on the east. Not as snowy as the west but the west coast resorts are still struggling after the stom on thursday.

[memories of 63]

Fron the charts above it seems that there's a bit of snow arounf Toronto. I can personally state that unless there's been a dumping since Saturday lunchtime that west of Toronto, there was no snow at all.