NH Winter/SH Summer 2020-21 Discussion Thread

Translation: Frost is causing trouble in the North - A severe situation.

Am I the only one who finds it funny that places in the arctic are experiencing serious problems because of frost? Madrid just got half a meter of snow, and arctic Norway is complaining about a little frost.

Looks like the east coast is going to get hit with a big snowstorm. Asked my parents to prepare for it. Hopefully dad has the snowblower ready to go. It’s after all February in the northeast.
Not much snow here though. Maybe 2” at best.

ECMWF forecasts over a foot of snowfall in NJ from the winter storm.

-5.0c, light snow at 21:00.
Yesterday and tonight it snowed a lot here and there is a lot of snow on the ground, about  16-17 cm here.
I add a map, as you can see  there is 43 cm of snow in the uplands. 




Also, a few days ago, the local weather service already published new climate standards as my new Argentine friend Macrelo, who seems to have almost a pathological interest in my weather, has already pointed out. I haven't myself scrutinize these new averages much but as a quick comment I must mention that global warming in my region, at least in the east of the country has been weaker than, for example, in many parts of Western Europe. This means that the gap with Western Europe has widened. This is not news to me of course, because for example, the last five years I have had such a poor and cool summers, at a time when my Western friends have experienced anomalous heat waves. The month of May was even a little warmer in the previous period. This is good news for my "friends". Fortunately, at least there are more hours of sunshine than during the old period although my station is still cloudier than the country's average.

The weather is now cold, January will be below average and probably February as well.
It is also bad that for the  low temperatures it has  been atypically very cloudy (because the air pressure has not been high). This trend seems to continue in the coming days.
The length of the day is now almost 9 hours and I would have expected at least more sunny hrs.



And now, if to bo...ify a bit, it can be said that at least it looks there is no forecast of a 'national ice week' here although there may be some more distant and not that well informed posters from distant american south hemisphere continents who assume that my conditions are here as they are in vostok. Or god knows what they think.

We could get quite a bit of snow next Tuesday. It’s forecast to be a snow to rain event though, which sucks.

It is beautiful only if you don't need to go out. And it will stat on the ground for weeks and weeks turning into snowdirt.The only good thing is that this hasn't happened earlier, then this snowdirt would be on the ground for 5 months or so.

That's true in a climate that isn't too cold like Riga.

In colder climates, such as in Siberia, the snow doesn't get too dirty most of winter and the ground stays pretty white.

Worst kind of snow is where it's like wet sand/mud mixture. Very hard to walk on. 

Saturated soils mean that at every rainfall most of the water runs off instead of soaking in. Rivers are swelling.


This barge won't be able to pass the Invalides bridge in Paris (pic from neige95 on Infoclimat):