Snow And Ice In The Northern Hemisphere Autumn/Winter 2015/16

[Ǝssex Ǝasterly]

Look at Scandinavia 

[throwoff]

 

[BornFromTheVoid]

Latest weekly Arctic sea ice extent update https://forum.netweather.tv/topic/74411-arctic-ice-data-and-stats/?p=3293808

[BornFromTheVoid]

Latest weekly Arctic sea ice extent update https://forum.netweather.tv/topic/74411-arctic-ice-data-and-stats/?do=findComment&comment=3297880

[frozencanals]

 

Snow still finding it hard to push westward towards Europe, though Scandinavia and Finland are looking better...

 

FC

[BornFromTheVoid]

The latest weekly Arctic sea ice extent update is here https://forum.netweather.tv/topic/74411-arctic-ice-data-and-stats/?do=findComment&comment=3301719

[frozencanals]

Hi All

Some progress westward for the snow line...

http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_v3/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/EuAsia/2015/ims2015350_asiaeurope.gif

Edited December 18, 2015 by frozencanals

[BornFromTheVoid]

Latest weekly Arctic sea ice update https://forum.netweather.tv/topic/74411-arctic-ice-data-and-stats/?do=findComment&comment=3304787

[Daniel*]

20/12/15

Snow extent grinding to a halt @Baltic states little to suggest it will change soon.

[cyclonic happiness]

Well, would you look at the state of the Americas!! Snow over the entirety of New Mexico, and into Mexico proper, Nevada, Texas, even Arizona, have more snow than Europe!!   ><

 

So El Nino just means that the north is warm and the south is cold...............AGAIN! 

[Daniel*]

9 minutes ago, cyclonic happiness said:

Well, would you look at the state of the Americas!! Snow over the entirety of New Mexico, and into Mexico proper, Nevada, Texas, even Arizona, have more snow than Europe!!   ><

 

So El Nino just means that the north is warm and the south is cold...............AGAIN! 

Crazy weather out there I've never seen the white pixels get that far south into Mexico before, have you?

[cyclonic happiness]

22 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Crazy weather out there I've never seen the white pixels get that far south into Mexico before, have you?

Nope, I've never seen it that far south, it's beyond a p**s take!

[Costa Del Fal]

5 hours ago, Daniel* said:

Crazy weather out there I've never seen the white pixels get that far south into Mexico before, have you?

That snow is the equivalent south as Morocco. Ridiculous! Yet it's so hard to get snow here whilst the UK remains stuck in no mans land as usual.

Edited December 28, 2015 by Costa Del Fal

[cheese]

5 hours ago, cyclonic happiness said:

Well, would you look at the state of the Americas!! Snow over the entirety of New Mexico, and into Mexico proper, Nevada, Texas, even Arizona, have more snow than Europe!!   ><

 

So El Nino just means that the north is warm and the south is cold...............AGAIN! 

It isn't that unusual in reality - the northern areas of Mexico, such as Chihuahua, are prone to occasional falls of snow, and the likes of New Mexico certainly are no strangers to the white stuff, given most of the state is very high in elevation. Albuquerque certainly gets more snow on average than low-land UK and probably as much as the likes of Aviemore.

Won't last long though.. that's the fundamental difference between snow in the UK and snow in Texas. Snow here has a good chance of sticking around for a week  or more.. in Texas, not so, since the sun is much stronger and winter daytime temps are much higher.

Edited December 28, 2015 by cheese

[James M]

8 hours ago, Costa Del Fal said:

That snow is the equivalent south as Morocco. Ridiculous! Yet it's so hard to get snow here whilst the UK remains stuck in no mans land as usual.

Well snow happens occasionally in Morocco. The thing is when you're on a large continental landmass you have an advantage . 

[Costa Del Fal]

3 hours ago, James M said:

Well snow happens occasionally in Morocco. The thing is when you're on a large continental landmass you have an advantage . 

Absolutely, I fully understand how much colder larger continental masses can be. However when you imagine it snowing in morroco from our part ofnthenwirodnitnsounds pretty mad doesn't it anyway!

[James M]

21 hours ago, Costa Del Fal said:

Absolutely, I fully understand how much colder larger continental masses can be. However when you imagine it snowing in morroco from our part ofnthenwirodnitnsounds pretty mad doesn't it anyway!

It does! Not fair is it haha.

[Norrance]

On 12/28/2015 at 10:55 PM, cheese said:

It isn't that unusual in reality - the northern areas of Mexico, such as Chihuahua, are prone to occasional falls of snow, and the likes of New Mexico certainly are no strangers to the white stuff, given most of the state is very high in elevation. Albuquerque certainly gets more snow on average than low-land UK and probably as much as the likes of Aviemore.

Won't last long though.. that's the fundamental difference between snow in the UK and snow in Texas. Snow here has a good chance of sticking around for a week  or more.. in Texas, not so, since the sun is much stronger and winter daytime temps are much higher.

Aviemore is averaging around 60 snow lying days per annum in recent years. I don't think Alburquerque gets that. However snow down there is not unusual.

[Daniel*]

Morocco has the Atlas Mountain range, low lying snow in Morocco is incredibly rare, a few mountains rise to 4,000 meters usually without fail every winter the mountains receive snow, I'm not quite sure how much. Parts of Mexico which had white pixels have at least 1,500m of elevation it helps- very sparsely populated/mountainous areas. As far south as it got I'd say that is very infrequent as I've not seen anything like the sort before.

[Interitus]

Meanwhile, summer returns early to Svalbard - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Ftroms%2Fsommertemperatur-pa-svalbard_-_-det-er-helt-utrolig-1.12725696&edit-text=&act=url

The new record of 8.7°C was only half a degree less than the max for June 2015 and the past three days all beat the previous December record. The new year starts with some locations snowless.

Edited January 1, 2016 by Interitus

[cyclonic happiness]

On 30/12/2015 at 9:14 PM, Daniel* said:

Morocco has the Atlas Mountain range, low lying snow in Morocco is incredibly rare, a few mountains rise to 4,000 meters usually without fail every winter the mountains receive snow, I'm not quite sure how much. Parts of Mexico which had white pixels have at least 1,500m of elevation it helps- very sparsely populated/mountainous areas. As far south as it got I'd say that is very infrequent as I've not seen anything like the sort before.

I've been looking at the snowcover maps for over 10 years now, and have only seen it maybe once or twice before, but never to the extent it has been.

I think we all know that it can snow there on occasion, but it's still noteworthy.

 

I wonder if there is a similar thread on the American forums, where they get excited about seeing snow in lowland uk? :-D  After all, that's a lot rarer than in Morocco, New Mexico, Egypt and probably even Dubai 

[Katrine Basso]

Hello, I am very new here and this my first post.  Here is the latest snow and ice map for Europe and Asia.

 

[gottolovethisweather]

1 minute ago, Katrine Estella said:

Hello, I am very new here and this my first post.  Here is the latest snow and ice map for Europe and Asia.

 

Welcome aboard Katrine and Thanks for the chart. Not too much action within this thread of late given the mainly snowless situation over Europe and the UK during recent weeks. It still is a thread I like to pop by from time to time though as I live in hope of seeing something wintry.

[Katrine Basso]

Thank you for the very warm welcome.  I hope that the snowless situation over Europe will change but it could take until late February before we see any real change in Europe.

[Methuselah]

Welcome, Katrine. Could you add your location to your profile, please?