The difference is massive.
Compare snow mapping for October 2013 and October 2014 https://www.facebook.com/WxRisk/photos/p.761950707185523/761950707185523/?type=1
NSIDC Snow Cover showing Siberian Snow Extent 2004-2014
https://www.facebook.com/WxRisk/photos/a.148807335166533.25889.129478830432717/761950520518875/?type=1&theater
Quoting WxRisk, “not only is the SAI way ahead of schedule and at a near record pace BUT the SCE– snow cover extent– is also going Gang busters..”
https://www.facebook.com/WxRisk/photos/p.761950797185514/761950797185514/?type=1&theater
Thanks to Caroline Snyder in West Virginia for these links
“And we know that Siberian Ice Extent influences the severity of North American winters,” says Caroline.
10 Responses to Siberian snow cover way ahead of schedule – Near record pace
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So, last year was just a “warm-up”? Shovel-ready here on the 45th parallel in N Michigan. Bring it!
Here news from Russia about abnormal October heavy snowfall. Translated with translate.google.com
http://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-413129.html
http://www.e1.ru/news/images/new1/413/129/images/1_750x563.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1-UFMuQt04
The snow paralyzed the work of the North bus station in Yekaterinburg
Due to bad weather hundreds of passengers at risk to come home very late or not come at all.
Passengers for hours waiting for their flights.
Snowfall paralyzed the work of the North bus station in Yekaterinburg: because of the difficult situation on the roads of the Sverdlovsk region all buses leave late in the two to three hours.
About the same time and delayed the arrival of long-distance buses.
Many flights from Ekaterinburg canceled and passengers have to take tickets.
At the bus station, people line up in long queues to return tickets and get the money back. Also in the building of the North Bus Station has accumulated a lot of passengers, waiting, when, finally, leave their bus.
The video zafisirovano as passengers swear with cashiers who refuse to change their tickets. Disgruntled people claim that they are not allowed to buy tickets for long distance flights, and as a result the buses from the bus station go blank.
– Why do you have to Revda left empty bus, with the fight with it? Explain! – Outraged passengers.
– On Revda maybe empty bus and went … And on your flight tickets anymore – not trying to argue cashier bus station.
However, information on a large number of accidents involving public transport for the last night in the traffic police of the Sverdlovsk region has been received.
– This may be due to the fact that long-distance buses from the Northern Bus ride through the most heavily loaded due to snow road Serov, Yekaterinburg, – the propaganda department of traffic police in the Sverdlovsk region.
During Saturday’s snow on city streets also stalled bus, and get in an accident dozens of cars, one of them even fell through the ground. In the morning E1.RU closely watching what is happening during the abnormal weather.
Roads now Yekaterinburg minimum number of machines and the traffic police are advised not unnecessarily use their cars, and if you join the road to be extremely careful and cautious. On regional routes the situation remains very tense.
Forecasters promise that snowfall in the city will continue for more than a day.
E1.RU will continue to monitor how Ekaterinburg experiencing abnormal October snowfall. Your photos and videos, you can send to our e-mail: news@corp.e1.ru
Northern hemisphere snow and ice cover images provided by NOAA is at this link:http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nh_snowcover/
NOAA Updates these images daily.
oh dear, my east coast mates are NOT going to be happy when I send em this link.
Live in Idaho and just heard on the news last night that the El Nino will bring us a warmer winter – I don’t think so. Summer (intense) temps came early and we cooled down early. Our grass crops we exceptional. We have already had 3 frost freezes in September, especially cold in the draws – a month early. Deer/Elk are already moving to lower ground. I don’t think we are far from our first snow which generally happens by Halloween. Even though we are having Indian summer – it is very cool in the mornings with heavy dew. The original long-range forecast was for a “real winter” here which means for us – 4 foot of snow.
So “yes” I do see that the weather thousand of miles away will impact me in the NW. I suspect that the amount of SO2 by volcano’s for the past 6 months is having an immediate impact. It will be telling when we get to March.
I live in Vancouver, Wa. We are down a bit from the average rainfall, but where we are really different is with the average lows. We continue to stay well above the average lows 10-13 degrees. The average highs are nearly spot on.
Go figure!
Just like how the feds keep telling us the economy is ‘looking up’, things are improving etc… all of which implies the oppositeof course.
I don’t know how this affects Europe or the UK. The UK is right out in the face of all the warm tropical air of the conveyor belt Atlantic so it’s pot luck regarding out Winter.
Our 2010/11 Winter was pretty bad (and 90/10) – although snow cover in the previous October didn’t look anything special.
Keeping an eye on this October Pattern Index (OPI), which I don’t really understand yet but there’s a lot of discussion in the weather forums about how much of a correlation there is between it and the coming Winter – for what regions I do not know if it is general of can be done regional or at least for each continent.
It still seems to be in the experimental stage but there seems to be quite a good correlation between the Winter and OPI observed, at least that is what I am hearing.
http://app.til.it/opi/
With the increase in Volcanic activity it is inevetibale that cooler weather would come soon.
If a High Pressure system establishes over Scandinavia in Nov/Dec , and STICKS we would get a very severe winter in the UK, because the wind would swing round clockwise and come in from the EAST…….SIBERIA!
The colder it is there, the colder the whole of Europe, including the UK, becomes.
The mild air of the Gulf Stream will be negated by this east wind and we will be reminded that we live at around 52 degrees North in southern Britain……same latitude as Nova Scotia.
If the High is over Sweden, the moist Lows coming off the Atlantic will meet the cold air from Siberia over the UK….hence HEAVY SNOW !!