Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere 2011/12

[Michael Fishermans Friend]

Wasn't Minsk, Moscow the other day (for Xmas day) showing the barest of lying snow? looking at the above chart shouldn't that be green around those areas as well? - looking pretty poor at the moment.

[cheeky_monkey]

Wasn't Minsk, Moscow the other day (for Xmas day) showing the barest of lying snow? looking at the above chart shouldn't that be green around those areas as well? - looking pretty poor at the moment.

MInsk is green...MInsk is the capital of Belorussia

[Michael Fishermans Friend]

MInsk is green...MInsk is the capital of Belorussia

I was thinking for some reason of Minsk being in Russia (not sure why), all the same my point for Moscow stands, hardly cold their either.

[damianslaw]

The northern hemisphere really is doing very poorly for snow for the time of year - reminds me of this time in 2006 when only the northern half of sandi had any decent snow amounts. I visited Moscow new year 2007 and there was no snow and the rivers were free of ice- unbelievable.

The lack of snow in china, korea and mongolia and US and Canada is also very notable, blame the polar vortex. Things should change markedly as we through January but there is no getting away from the fact it has been an exceptionally slow start and poor start to the winter snow wise in so many parts of the northern hemisphere.

[J10]

http://forum.netweat...-30th-december/

Latest ski blog out, and a mixed week, between Tropical Maritime and Polar Maritime airflows. so heavy rain and snow at times, could be further heavy falls of snow towards next weekend on the higher slopes, a lot of uncertainty though.

has all the synoptic summary related to the blog.

[cyclonic happiness]

Well, I'm back from my Cristmas break, so can resume my duties here on NW.

Here's the latest update and as we can see there are still rather alot of negative anomolies in the northern hemisphere, but are we downhearted?.......erm...anyway.......here's the update

[Ferreiro]

New Year's Eve celebrations with snow in Reykjavik (Iceland), Sofia (Bulgaria), Pristina (Kosovo), Sarajevo (Bosnia), Tallinn (Estonia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Minsk (Belarus) and Moscow (Russia). The only ones European capitals where today there is snow.

But only in Reykjavik, sofia and Sarajevo (no webcam sorry) there is enough quantity.

Reykjavik

Sofia

Moscow

Tallinn

Pristina

In the large cities of Western Europe only Munich has snow today

New year's Eve celebrations without snow in Nordic capitals

Stockholm

Helsinki

Oslo (perhaps some rest of snow)

Edited December 31, 2011 by Ferreiro

[Ferreiro]

New Year's Eve celebrations with snow in some european capitals

Sofia

Reykjavik

Tallinn

Pristina (Kosovo)

Minsk (Belarus)

Moscow

Snow in Sarajevo too, but without webcam sorry.

But no snow in

Stockholm

Helsinki

Oslo (perhaps some rest of snow)

No capitals with snow in Western Europe, and of the major cities (no capitals) only Munich has snow today.

Edited December 31, 2011 by Ferreiro

[lottiekent]

I hope no one minds me posting the NYE map of Europe's snowfall cover? There have been some nice additions across eastern Europe with south and east Poland getting a fair amount of snow along with parts of Lithuania and Belarus:

[Aaron]

Looks like Southern Scandi will be snow free for a while.. last time that occurred in January was the winter of 2008 which was the mildest on record for Scandi I think

[Ferreiro]

A lot of snow in the Balkans

Rarely a greek city is the coldest of Europe. Today has been the case, Florina in Northern Greece, with snow, -17.8ºC.

Snow in blue

Edited January 3, 2012 by Ferreiro

[Ferreiro]

There is still enough snow in South-East Europe. Sofia and Sarajevo are among the few European capitals that continue with snow.

Sofia today

[damianslaw]

I think central asia and east turkey and iran have seen a notably snowy winter so far compared to much of Europe and N America and even China and Korea.

[cyclonic happiness]

Well here's today's update.

Strange seeing such a stalemate with the negative anomolies, let's hope it changes and soon!

[J10]

Latest Ski Blog now out.

[Ferreiro]

Very little snow in Europe this winter. The unique european capitals with a lot of days with snow on the ground are Reykjavik, Moscow, sofia and Sarajevo.

Sofia today,

[damianslaw]

Yes I've noticed how consistently cold Sofia has been in recent weeks compared to the likes of Stockholm, Oslo, Warsaw and even Moscow. SE Europe tends to fair much better than northern europe when we have a raging atlantic as heights tend to be higher to the west and thus surface cold or light NE airflow envelops the region.

The likes of Oslo and Stockholm must be experiencing one of their mildest starts to winter ever I imagine.

On some occasions nightime minima in Madrid and even Athens have been colder than those experienced in the northern european capitals. Suspect we will see thing revert back to normal in the next week or two. NE Europe is about to see a significant cold plunge at the end of week.

[Ferreiro]

At last it snows in Stockholm

[Ferreiro]

Few changes on the map of snow.

In Europe, Sofia and Sarajevo continue with snow. Sofia now

But Stockholm has lost its snow and now is raining

[yukichon]

There doesn't seem to be any mention of the huge snow falls on the alps, with slopes in Austria reporting 5m of snow!

[J10]

The ski blog has been updated

[loophole]

Edited January 20, 2012 by loophole

[J10]

Latest Ski Blog has been updated.

[KTtom]

Fascinating picture, illustrates perfectly the effects of the Gulf stream on NW Europe...just look what everyone else has at the same latitude!

[Aaron]

Has Stockholm in Sweden had any snow this winter? I'm shocked to see it still snow-free in late January, surely a record.. anyway the forecast for Stockholm is cold with sub-zero temperatures day and night so just need the snow to fall.