Early Snow in Russia

It is beginning! The death of the system of warm water currents in the Atlantic Ocean is already having a icy effect in Europe. It will get much worse!

 

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Anthony Watts

By Steven Goddard
Russia has seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season.

http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/last3days/snow
According to Rutgers Global Snow Lab, Russia doesn’t normally receive snow until the second week in September.


http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_dclim.php?ui_day=251
More is forecast for the next week, as well as in Norway and Sweden. Southeast Greenland is expecting heavy snow.

http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/next3to6days/snow
Much of The UK and Ireland are expecting cold weather during the next week, as is Moscow. Temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet will be dipping down to near -25C. Nice August weather!

http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/132/lapse
No doubt the news media will be talking about the Moscow heat wave for at least two more weeks. Absolute, undeniable proof of “global” warming.
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Never before so much rain in Germany E-mail from readers in Germany

                      
  
31 Aug 10 - Germany received more rain in August than in any August since records began in 1881, the German Weather Service (DWD) announced Monday.

 “We have measured more than double the amount of rain as the long-term average for August,” said DWD spokesman Uwe Kirsche.

About 157 litres per square metre had fallen on average across the nation, a new record. The previous record, set in August 1960, brought  "only" 134 liter / sq m. That compares with the average over many years of just 77 litres / m.

Bert Hörnitz village in the district Görlitz received 101 liter / m rain in just one day, on 7 August.

The sun shone in August 2010, approximately 143 hours, some 27 percent below its normal  target of 197 hours. Many weather stations reported new records in the lack of  sunshine, for which records have been kept since 1951.

It has been especially frustrating for farmers. The spring barley harvest was cut off right at the beginning of the month, then in the second half of August were the oats.

http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/178681.so-viel-regen-gab-s-vorher-nie.html

Thanks to CJM Benedikt, Michal K. and Thomas L. for this link
(All from Germany)

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Snow in the Alps a month earlier than normal

30 Aug 10 - Snow in Voralberg, a month earlier than "normal". Many farmers still had their cattle in the fields! Global warming seems far removed from these regions.

It's in Dutch, but you can use an online translator to get the gist of it. http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/7513078/__Sneeuw_in_Alpen__.html
 Thanks to Hans Schreuder for this link

August turns to November in Germany

 

My calendar tells me its still August, well at least for another day, but here in Southern Germany it is like November!!! Cold rainy, windy weather the whole day! A raw day to just stay inside and hope and wait for the return of warmer weather! Only7 degrees Celsius during the day for the end of August!! I think we are going to see some record low high temps broken today!

There is Snow falling in the middle Alps turning the landscape into a winter wonderland!

The weather pattern across western and eastern Europe has been consistent with global cooling! Reports that the grain harvest is in jeopardy because it's been too cold and wet and the corn fields are not looking all that great either for this time of year! The outlook for September is cooler and wetter than average!

Let's hope major Volcanic activity stays low...otherwise we are in trouble as far as start to global cooling and La Nina!

Half a meter of snow in Norway

I live in Norway. Here is what was in the news today!

The winter just arrived, with a half a meter of snow. It snowed several places in the mountains in eastern Norway, although it is still only August.

"This was totally unexpected," says Anne Wangen to Nettavisen.

She is a hostess at Juvasshytta at the foot of Galdhøpiggen in Norway, and said she woke up to a lot of snow outside the tourist cabin Sunday morning.

"There have been large amounts of snow, between 40 and 50 centimeters," says Wangen. It is many years since there has been snow so early in Juvasshytta, located 1840 meters above sea level.

"It has happened that there has been so much snow in August, but it is many years since the last time. It is not normal anyway, and there was no indication of a time," says Wangen.

"Were you surprised by the snowfall?"

"Yes, we were the more so. We were on tour with 300 guests in Galdhøpiggen," she said. 

Meteorologist expects monster La Nina -
Drastic cooling

Southern Hemisphere sea ice
now approaching record high levels

25 Aug 10 - Although Northern Hemisphere LAND MASSES had their hottest May-July on record, says meteorologist Joe Bastardi, the globe as a whole did not.

The warmth ON LAND is a by-product of the years of warm Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)  and El Nino, says Bastardi. The land kept warming after the water began to cool. It's "sort of like high tide in back bay occurring after it had occurred on the beach (oceans) and the tide is about to go out."

"If one uses common sense, one would understand that land masses with warm water next to them for years would warm greatly," says Bastardi.

Southern Hemisphere sea ice now approaching record high levels

However, "the expansion of the Southern Hemisphere sea ice, now approaching record high levels, ought to tell you something about the oceans immediately around the sea ice," says Bastardi. This large mass of water is cooling and has cooled most dramatically in the area where it is warmest (the tropical pacific).

"We see drastic cooling over land and IN THE ATLANTIC TOO. In fact, it basically keeps cooling the tropical Pacific into next year, then hammers away at the two areas warmest now - the Atlantic and the continents.  

Monster La Nina

In the next nine months Bastardi expects we will "see a monster of a La Nina, reminiscent of the 1950s." Over the coming decades, he expects "to see the Earth's temps retreat back to where they were in the late 1970s. (I expect to see them decline ever further.)

See entire article:
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp?partner=accuweather
Thanks to Tom McHart for this link