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2007/2008 Snow coverage graphics

#1 Postby Aquawind » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:02 am

Some impressive snows even for the middle of October. Record breaking in Buffalo already this year. The sun still melts it quickly though..

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#2 Postby bob rulz » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:19 pm

If you look back at previous days, they never even show the snow cover around Buffalo. Odd.
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#3 Postby jimvb » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:27 am

Are you going to put the maps from http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/index.html
into this thread? I notice that your other thread is locked. This means that no one is going to post to it, meaning it will fall and fall in the listings until I have to search all over the place for it. Those are good maps and better than the one you show us here, which does not show the Buffalo snow or anything in northern Canada.
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#4 Postby Aquawind » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:58 am

Anyone can post the maps and sure the SSD maps can be posted. The other thread was from last year so this thread is for the new season. :cheesy:
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#5 Postby jimvb » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:27 am

Very well, then. Here are the graphics. My impression from looking at them so far is that the snow coming on the ground in the fall and early winter is like some artists taking random whacks at a map of northern North America with a white paintbrush. The painter is a snowstorm. The snowstorm paints a swath through Canada (or the US) and there the paint remains, because it is too cold to melt. More and more swaths occur until all of Canada and much of the northern US is painted white. But if the paintstorm goes too far south, its track disappears (melts). But still, there is a little paint blip near Buffalo.

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#6 Postby JonathanBelles » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:08 pm

wow nice charts
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#7 Postby bob rulz » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:04 pm

Personally, I would prefer if both maps were posted periodically. They're both good for different things (one shows snow cover across the entire Northern Hemisphere, the other shows depth in the U.S.)
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#8 Postby Aquawind » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:05 am

A liitle more snow in the west.. 8-)

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#9 Postby Aquawind » Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:13 am

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#10 Postby JonathanBelles » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:05 am

why doesnt that map show the snow in buffulo?
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#11 Postby tomboudreau » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:10 pm

The snow in Buffalo has melted. It was almost all gone within 2 days of it falling.
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#12 Postby Aquawind » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:14 pm

Looks like the ski trails will be open soon up in Colorado and Wyoming.

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#13 Postby CaptinCrunch » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:10 pm

Snow pack across Canada, Asia and Polor ice coverage is very impressive so early in the season. Winter will come early for many this season!
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#14 Postby gord » Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:41 am

Look at the snow across eastern Europe....early blast of winter there...I'm hoping those blasts move more to the west side of Europe over the winter!

Alaska looking impressive too.

thank you for posting these images...every year i find them fascinating.
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#15 Postby azsnowman » Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:44 pm

Notice how Northern Az. is totally snowless? Very unusual for us...but it's become the "norm" for the past 10 years, the days of snow for us I honestly believe are over....
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#16 Postby Aquawind » Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:23 am

There is only a micro blip in AZ and Cheeseland looks like winter alrighty..


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#17 Postby Aquawind » Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:35 pm

Now that is looking more like it in the West!! :D

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#18 Postby bob rulz » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:10 pm

That snow cover should be increasing the next few days.
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#19 Postby CaptinCrunch » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:53 am

All of Canada is now covered with a snow pack which has keep temps at or below normal. With a large area of the NW U.S covered in a good snow pack this should help with keeping cold fronts cold as they move south over the next 2 weeks.

Just looking at Weather Canada's newest 3 month forecast (Dec-Feb) issued Dec 1, Canada should see below normal temps and above normal precip for much of Southern and Central Canada. This is totally backwards to their forecast back in Sept when they forecasted above normal temps and below normal precip for much of Canada as a whole. The only above normal area was along the eastern seaboard, which don't sound to good for the NE U.S seeing a colder than avg winter.
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#20 Postby CaptinCrunch » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:28 pm

The extent of Arctic sea ice was second lowest on record in September, when annual sea ice extent is at its lowest point of the year. This was only slightly higher than the record low extent measured in 2005. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, this is part of a continuing trend in end-of-summer Arctic sea ice extent reductions of approximately eight percent per decade since 1979, when recordkeeping began.
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