Snow in China, Cold in Siberia, Typhoon in Vietnam
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
Click here to see full screen. This is a satellite map of the large area of snowcover over China. The high temperature the past two days in Beijing has been 20 deg. cooler than average. The Chinese have taken credit for the snow after seeding the clouds with silver iodide. While that may have had a local effect, it certainly didn’t produce this much snow. Check out this video of Chinese Army snow brushers and ground seeding. While I’ve been dropping hints and sharing a little information on the winter forecast for several months now, one aspect of this winter may be the set up of long-range troughs over fairly densely populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere (China. Eastern U.S. Eastern Europe). Farther north in Siberia, temperatures have nosedived. On Nov. 1, Verkoyansk had a high/low of -28/-35. To the south, Typhoon Mirinae has taken at least 42 lives in Vietnam.
“Dropping hints.” Are you sure you’re just not waiting to see what this El Nino is going to do?
http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2009/11/nino34-sst-anomalies-make-surge.html
C’mon Blue State freeze-out!
Unrelated, but there is a nice moon ring tonight (Nov 3rd) just before midnight… I guess that means we have a snowstorm coming maybe?
Randy – I was thinking the same thing on my drive home last night. Hit about 31 degrees on the car thermometer just north of Hastings, but back to 33 at my house. It was 33 this morning at 6:30 as well, so I guess we just ‘hovered’ there all night once the clouds rolled in.
36° here and cloudy.
Another long range “guess” this time by John Dee. He think the upcoming winter will be warmer and have less snow then the past two. I am beging to fall into this thinking as well. Sorry snow and cold weather lovers!
http://www.johndee.com/
SlimJim
Slim– JD provides some specious reasoning,imo, as he seems to believe that even a “weaker” El Nino would portend milder than avg. if you read between his lines;yet that is often NOT the case if you look at historical temp data for previous ‘weak’ El Nino’s…….not saying we’re NOT heading for mod tri-month peak– just that it is TOO early to make specific forecast claims based only on ENSO sst’s owing to fluid nature of said variable.
Saw my first flakes about 30 minutes ago. Can’t say I am thrilled to look out my window and see the white stuff. LOL