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Post by Crunch41 on May 19, 2018 21:41:26 GMT -5
What's with the crazy snow ratio here? I know Hokkaido can get a lot of snow, but the monthly precipitation isn't high. January and February snow ratios are about 36 to 1, and I've never seen anywhere average that high. Furano
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Post by Candleur on May 19, 2018 22:03:48 GMT -5
What's with the crazy snow ratio here? I know Hokkaido can get a lot of snow, but the monthly precipitation isn't high. January and February snow ratios are about 36 to 1, and I've never seen anywhere average that high. Furano
Edit: Why are hyperlinks so hard on this site? I typed in a link, hit save, and then I click on it and it just reloads this page. Plus this site doesn't grab the full link most of the time, like this below.
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I don't know the specifics of the atmospheric physics at play but it is all due to the Siberian air coming off the Sea of Japan and sucking the maximum moisture available and depositing it in the form of snow. Last November I went to Hokkaido (not Furano, which sounds eerily Italian) but I did make a piss-stop in nearby Shimukappu on my Chitose-Sapporo-Asahikawa-Engaru-Kushiro-Chitose drive. It was snowing mixed with graupel when I was there:  |
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Post by Crunch41 on May 19, 2018 22:22:20 GMT -5
I don't know the specifics of the atmospheric physics at play but it is all due to the Siberian air coming off the Sea of Japan and sucking the maximum moisture available and depositing it in the form of snow. Last November I went to Hokkaido (not Furano, which sounds eerily Italian) but I did make a piss-stop in nearby Shimukappu on my Chitose-Sapporo-Asahikawa-Engaru-Kushiro-Chitose drive. It was snowing mixed with graupel when I was there:
It definitely makes sense that the ratios are high, as lake-effect snow typically has high ratios in the US, so does light snow, and so does snow during colder weather. Japan has very long periods of light ocean-effect snow. But 35 or 40:1 is way higher than I would have expected.
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Post by Candleur on May 19, 2018 22:27:00 GMT -5
I don't know the specifics of the atmospheric physics at play but it is all due to the Siberian air coming off the Sea of Japan and sucking the maximum moisture available and depositing it in the form of snow. Last November I went to Hokkaido (not Furano, which sounds eerily Italian) but I did make a piss-stop in nearby Shimukappu on my Chitose-Sapporo-Asahikawa-Engaru-Kushiro-Chitose drive. It was snowing mixed with graupel when I was there:
It definitely makes sense that the ratios are high, as lake-effect snow typically has high ratios in the US, so does light snow, and so does snow during colder weather. Japan has very long periods of light ocean-effect snow. But 35 or 40:1 is way higher than I would have expected.
They (Hokkaido and northern Honshu) essentially have constant light snow/sunshine in the winter interspersed with heavy snowfalls. It's a winter paradise. Yamagata is the snowiest prefecture in Japan:  |
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Post by Crunch41 on May 19, 2018 22:29:08 GMT -5
They (Hokkaido and northern Honshu) essentially have constant light snow/sunshine in the winter interspersed with heavy snowfalls. It's a winter paradise. Yamagata is the snowiest prefecture in Japan: Light snow and sun? Sounds great!
Yamagata is too wet for me, but Furano is an A climate.
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Post by knot on May 20, 2018 8:15:07 GMT -5
Glen Innes (only 29° S) is already at –3.0° C..!! Can likely plummet downwards –5° C should there be minimal cloud cover until morning.
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Post by Nidaros on May 20, 2018 14:11:23 GMT -5
Flying from Greece to Norway today, but avoiding a temperature shock as it was 23C at Trondheim Airport this afternoon...  Avg high at Trondheim AP so far in May is 19.1C - that's rare for the first 20 days of May here. Source is the database owned by met.no (eklima) - infoclimat has as often before poor data for lows and highs. Drammen and Oslo-Bygdøy has avg high 21C so far in May. Kristiansand is leading wrt sunhrs in Norway with 229 sunhrs. We're just at 177. And up in Vardø by the Barents Sea, avg high so far is 8C. Harstad S of Tromsø is at a respectable 14.3C. |
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Post by knot on May 20, 2018 16:39:11 GMT -5
Glen Innes (29° S) officially plummeted to –5.9° C, which is pretty much –6° C. Fucken oath, my guess was right!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 17:24:23 GMT -5
Back in Buxton (I'll be back tomorrow) the sun just keeps on coming and coming. Averaging 11 hours a day since 14th - with over 170 hours so far this month.
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Post by Babu on May 21, 2018 5:11:33 GMT -5
Kronoby hasn't had an Okta since May 7th
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 1:52:46 GMT -5
16.0C as average so far. and if forecast comes true, this month could end up with a mean of ~17.5C in the city!  , beating the old swedish may record from 1889 with more than 1.5C. this is by far the most anomalous month in my lifetime, and maybe in swedish climate history. |
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Post by Babu on May 22, 2018 4:38:28 GMT -5
no this may is average swedish weather. its warmer than england always
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Post by Ariete on May 22, 2018 9:55:30 GMT -5
14.0C average here due to endless clear skies and low humidity which mean quite low lows. But as we are now at the record high mean, we will probably make history as the weather doesn't seem to be changing.
Helsinki Kumpula is on a good track: 14.2C with also the station's new record high (29.0C).
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 10:07:07 GMT -5
some crazy diurnal ranges in inland southern sweden lately  |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 10:15:55 GMT -5
While it's about 97°C or whatever fucken degrees in Scandinavia I'm quite happy with the high teens sunny weather here today. Nice and refreshing in the breeze but a good sun to make you feel pleasantly warm.
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Post by Babu on May 23, 2018 3:58:19 GMT -5
You'd think a heatwave would only last a week or so, but no, Gothenburg hasn't had a day with less than a +3'C deviation since May 4th! And only like two or three days have had less than a +5'C deviation. Sick.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 4:22:48 GMT -5
looks like the heat will culminate on sunday. i wonder if the all-time heat record from may (29.8C) is in danger. forecast is showing 29-31C that day.
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Post by Steelernation on May 23, 2018 16:12:20 GMT -5
Using the rediculous -3 C threshold, Rochester has had a C-a year 16 times.
It happened the following years:
1898, 1911, 1921, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1975, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2016
C-b years occurred the following:
1891, 1932, 1990, 1998
That makes a total of 20 “C” years, or about 1 in 7.3.
Using the much more logical 0 C threshold, it’s never happened.
The closest was 1998 with 31.6 (-0.2 C) in January.
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Post by Morningrise on May 23, 2018 20:32:40 GMT -5
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Post by Candleur on May 23, 2018 20:48:54 GMT -5
NL is difficult due to the Labrador Current, which should really be called the Greenlandic Current. St. John's, NL is only 1 degree west longitudinally from Nuuk, Greenland. So they're essentially the same longitude. Nain has been well below average all month and on par with Norilsk, Russia. It's -2C in Nain at the moment.  Meanwhile, the Yukon, BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and even parts of the NWT 'bake' in above normal temperatures. |
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, beating the old swedish may record from 1889 with more than 1.5C. this is by far the most anomalous month in my lifetime, and maybe in swedish climate history.
