Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere 2012/13

[Isolated Frost]

All I can say is, here we go again! Mine and many others favourite Autumn thread, as we observe the small white pixels spread westwards from the mountains of Siberia, into the forests of Scandinavia, and eventually, the hills of Scotland and England!

Here's a link to last years thread http://forum.netweat...isphere-201112/

[Turnedoutniceagain]

Excellent - my fave thread !!

[damianslaw]

Look forward to following this thread in the coming weeks. How is icecover doing this year compared to other years - it looks very low.. probably thanks to persistant high pressure over the poles meaning warmer than average SST's to our north, but things change very quickly as we head through September.

[Aaron]

I love you Isolated Frost!

[Geordiesnow]

Look forward to following this thread in the coming weeks. How is icecover doing this year compared to other years - it looks very low.. probably thanks to persistant high pressure over the poles meaning warmer than average SST's to our north, but things change very quickly as we head through September.

Ice is doing terribly at the moment(that chart above looks wrong too me regarding the ice), lowest on record by quite a fair distance and no doubt will set record breaking lows this summer despite weather patterns being fairly average although once again air temperatures will have been above average it seems.

Be interesting how much convection we see in certain parts of the Arctic as we head into September which may lead to quite widespread snowfall cover in the early part of Autumn if the right weather patterns comes along, especially in the Beaufeut sea where SST's are way above average at the moment.

[Chris K]

Yey I enjoyed following this thread last year. Looking forward to see how snow and ice progress as we head towards winter.

[A Winter's Tale]

Nice to see this thread up and running again!

[BornFromTheVoid]

Two more sources here

http://climate.rutge...cover/index.php

http://arctic.atmos....edu/cryosphere/

[cyclonic happiness]

It s exciting to think of all the fun and games we have to look forward to.

I can't wait to see those first widespread Siberian snows of the year , they always build up the excitement for me lol.

We are going to do alternate daily updates both me and I .F. but please feel free to upload any pictures , videos or links that you feel will add to the thread .

And remember , this is a fun thread so don't worry too much about getting excited and ramping it up a bit , after all................. WINTER 'S COMING!!!!!!!!!

[cyclonic happiness]

It s exciting to think of all the fun and games we have to look forward to.

I can't wait to see those first widespread Siberian snows of the year , they always build up the excitement for me lol.

We are going to do alternate daily updates both me and I .F. but please feel free to upload any pictures , videos or links that you feel will add to the thread .

And remember , this is a fun thread so don't worry too much about getting excited and ramping it up a bit , after all................. WINTER 'S COMING!!!!!!!!!

[Isolated Frost]

I love you Isolated Frost!

Haha! Well, I asked the legendary cyclonic happiness for permission, this thread is of course his baby

We'll be doing daily updates as he's just posted. Thanks for the extra links BFTV

[BornFromTheVoid]

[Boro_andy]

There was me chomping at the bit for this thread!!

Ice cover looks more widespread but looking at a link BFTV posted I believe the cover is much much thinner. That's my deduction anyway

[syed2878]

Excelent so please to c this thread back lets hope all of us c a good snow cover for the u.k come this winter.

[cyclonic happiness]

Well, the site hasn't updated yet so I'll pop the new one up later

[Radiating Dendrite]

We want snow! We want snow!

Hope everyone has their magnifying glasses at the ready!

[cheeky_monkey]

We want snow! We want snow!

Hope everyone has their magnifying glasses at the ready!

Not in Canada we dont!

[DeepSnow]

http://satepsanone.n...ultisensor.html

I remember this was used last year for a bit more of a detailed look at the snow cover extent

Edited August 15, 2012 by DeepSnow

[Relativistic]

We want snow! We want snow!

Hope everyone has their magnifying glasses at the ready!

Haha yeah!

Do I see one white pixel in the Kamchatka Peninsula?

Edited August 15, 2012 by 22nov10blast

[Isolated Frost]

Hey CH, on mobile so I don't know quite how to PM, but could you do today's and tomorrow's as I can't do it on my BB.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Some early season snow in northern Scandinavia next week?

[cyclonic happiness]

Hey CH, on mobile so I don't know quite how to PM, but could you do today's and tomorrow's as I can't do it on my BB.

Yeps, no worries!

So, here's today's update.....................

No change in snow levels, but the arctic ice has dropped quite dramatically compared to the day before.

Some early season snow in northern Scandinavia next week?

Yes, and there is also a northerly burst heading down across northern/central Siberia next week, so we should hopefully start to see some bigger changed up instead of down.

[Turnedoutniceagain]

*scans excitedly for pixels*

[Seasonal Trim]

Woo Hoo. Loved this thread last year.

[cyclonic happiness]

Well as we can see for the latest update, there's been little change.

However, there are literally a couple of pixels in eastern Russia if you look had enough