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Snow and Ice in the Northern Hemisphere 2011/2012

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  • #102
    Godge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,727 ✭✭✭✭Godge


    http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


    While on the one hand "snow cover levels were anomalously low over Scandinavia and northwestern Europe during November", this is much more encouraging "overall Northern Hemisphere snow cover was more extensive than normal this November, with most of the extra snow cover found in Canada and Russia. Snow covered an average of 36.2 million square kilometers (14.0 million square miles) of Northern Hemisphere land. This is 2.79 million square kilometers (1.08 million square miles) above the 1971 to 2000 mean, and ranks as the fourth most extensive cover in the past 46 years of satellite-derived snow cover records."

    If we could just get some to come our way.


  • #103
    Coeurdepirate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭Coeurdepirate


    Today:
    cursnow_asiaeurope.gif

    This day last year:
    ims2010353_asiaeurope.gif



    :(


  • #104
    PaddyTheNth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭PaddyTheNth


    Coeurdepirate wrote: »
    Today:


    This day last year:


    :(
    Interesting to see that there is actually more coverage in the 'stans and Mongolia this year. Depressing to see the lower sea ice coverage.


  • #105
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    PaddyTheNth wrote: »
    Interesting to see that there is actually more coverage in the 'stans and Mongolia this year. Depressing to see the lower sea ice coverage.

    I don't know - to me it looks like there's more ice off eastern Greenland, from Svalbard across to Novaya Zemlya and along the northern Russian coast to Archengelsk, while there is less in northern Canada, off eastern Asia and the Bering Strait. Overall though I'd say there's not much difference.


  • #106
    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭ct5amr2ig1nfhp


    Ah, my post didn't appear. Strange.

    My post was similar to what Su Campu posted. Looks about the same coverage as last year. In fact some places have ice that didn't last year.


  • #107
    Harps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    It looks to be up if anything, apart from around Novaya Zemlya I can't see anywhere where there's noticeably less than last year


  • #108
    Coeurdepirate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭Coeurdepirate


    So Ireland and Portugal are the only countries in Europe without even a pixel of snow. Fúck our lives.


  • #109
    TheInquisitor
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    Last year versus this year

    jan31.gif

    31jan.gif

    It'll be interesting to see how this changes over the next week!


  • #110
    K_1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭K_1


    cursnow_asiaeurope.gif

    Interesting to see big areas of Poland and Germanywith no snow despite the low temps.


  • #111
    Conor30
    Registered Users Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Conor30


    K_1 wrote: »
    cursnow_asiaeurope.gif

    Interesting to see big areas of Poland and Germanywith no snow despite the low temps.

    How come there are specks of white over parts of Ireland? I didn't think there had been any snow anywhere in Ireland...:confused:

    It seems Ireland and Portugal are the mildest places in Europe right now! Even Italy and Turkey have been inundated with snow!

    I think I'd rather move to a Continental country that gets the best of both worlds and proper seasons. I can't take any more of Ireland's uni-season climate and weather you can't rely on. :rolleyes:


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  • #112
    [Deleted User]
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    By the looks of that image, there's even snow in North Africa! (must be mountains)


  • #113
    K_1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭K_1


    Conor30 wrote: »
    How come there are specks of white over parts of Ireland? I didn't think there had been any snow anywhere in Ireland...:confused:

    It seems Ireland and Portugal are the mildest places in Europe right now! Even Italy and Turkey have been inundated with snow!

    I think I'd rather move to a Continental country that gets the best of both worlds and proper seasons. I can't take any more of Ireland's uni-season climate and weather you can't rely on. :rolleyes:

    Snow spots in Ireland must be hills, image is from yesterday so presumably there were spots of snow somewhere.

    Deleted User wrote: »
    By the looks of that image, there's even snow in North Africa! (must be mountains)

    Nope, low level snow across large areas of Algeria this week!


  • #114
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    yes, in Algiers.


  • #115
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,424 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    The snow really has started to pull back from europe in the last couple of weeks

    http://www.natice.noaa.gov/ims/loop/asia-1mo-loop.html


  • #116
    snowstreams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    196214.gif

    The sea ice will be reaching its peak now very soon. Doesnt seem to be much ice this year in the area north of Scandinavia.


  • #117
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    snowstreams wrote: »
    The sea ice will be reaching its peak now very soon. Doesnt seem to be much ice this year in the area north of Scandinavia.
    The sea north of Scandinavia is always ice free thanks to the Gulf Stream.
    The Russian port of Murmansk remains ice free all year for example.


  • #118
    MiNdGaM3
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭MiNdGaM3


    Elmer Blooker wrote: »
    The sea north of Scandinavia is always ice free thanks to the Gulf Stream.
    The Russian port of Murmansk remains ice free all year for example.

    The sea ice north of Scandinavia (Barents and Kara seas) are very much below average this year and have been holding back the rest of the Arctic which has been close to or above average much of the Winter.
    The Barents sea is currently running at a 400,000km2 -ve anomaly, while Kara has a -ve 100,000km2 anomaly.
    All the data is here http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

    This year compared to a typical year.
    http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/deetest/deetmp.16527.png


  • #119
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,923 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Bump! I can't edit my opening thread title but if a mod could do it for this season it would be much appreciated :)


    It's that time of year again when gradually the Artic starts to cool and that process will speed up in the next 4 weeks.

    I will post new charts later today to show the state of play. It's all very interesting to observe the ice and cold atmosphere advance and with it the hope (or fear depending on perspective) of another 2010/1947/1968 event. :)

    Events around the hurricane season in the Atlantic will have a big say in our fate this winter. We want an active season.


  • #120
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think that you would probably be better off starting a new thread for the next season.

    As it is, on some other message boards the environmentalists are wetting themselves with the minimum sea Ice extent figures right now, looking for evidence that the "Ice free by 2020" model is still on track (which it isn't).


    PS I'm not a mod on this forum.


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  • #121
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    Mod note
    Start a new thread for 2014/15 Kermit.de.frog
    No need to revive a four year old zombie thread. We have a new snow/ice thread every year :)


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