Climate talk: Europe (historical, lows, april, coldest)
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Especially northern.. Right now temp is 39° Newcastle and 36°F in Stornoway. May 1st tomorrow. I'm sure they get cold enough for snow to stick around for days after a nice snowstorm. No? Any data official from there?
The British weather service doesn't keep track of snowfall amounts. A poster from northern England manually added snowstorm totals from an unofficial site:
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Originally Posted by ben86
40 cm total snowfall in Bingley for 2014/15 so far, which will probably still be 40 cm this time next week.
Using Ogimet I've been able to work out the total snowfall over the past few winters:
2009/10: 64 cm
2010/11: 42 cm
2011/12: 14 cm
2012/13: 93 cm
2013/14: 3 cm
I'm not used to seeing cumulative snow totals presented this way so didn't really know what kind of results I could expect to get. That 93 cm / 36.5 inches from 2012-13 includes the two snowiest months of this decade so far: 41 cm in March 2013 and 32 cm in January 2013. Unlikely to be beaten for a very long time, likewise the 52 days of snow cover in the calendar year 2010!
The deepest snow we've had at any one time in recent years was 32 cm on 24 March 2013, and I don't expect that to happen again any time soon either.
I assume March and January 2013 must have seen 6+ inch (15+ cm) snow events?
The British weather service doesn't keep track of snowfall amounts. A poster from northern England manually added snowstorm totals from an unofficial site:
I assume March and January 2013 must have seen 6+ inch (15+ cm) snow events?
Yes, we had a maximum depth of 32 cm on March 24th that year, which stuck around for a couple of weeks after that. Considering how late in the year it was that snow event was probably the most impressive I can remember here.
We didn't get so much snow this year, but what we did get still stayed on the ground for an impressively long time considering the lack of proper cold to go with it:
Yes, we had a maximum depth of 32 cm on March 24th that year, which stuck around for a couple of weeks after that. Considering how late in the year it was that snow event was probably the most impressive I can remember here.
We didn't get so much snow this year, but what we did get still stayed on the ground for an impressively long time considering the lack of proper cold to go with it:
any climate data for bingley? your summers seems to be pretty cold...
They are, places in Lapland seem to get better heatwaves than we do! Though the weather station is in an odd place a little bit above the town, so it's not quite as bad as what this table would have you believe.
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Originally Posted by nei
Is spring dryness common for most of Europe?
I would say spring dryness is common in the westernmost side near the Atlantic European coast anywhere from French Britanny peninsula (Brest) to northern Norwegian coast, whereas summer dryness is common in the Atlantic European coast all the way from Brest to Gibraltar strait and then most of Mediterranean basin, except Venice area.
Late winter dryness is common in most of central and eastern Europe, though.
Europe has some interesting precipitation seasonality. North American patterns are simpler. Southern Spain seems to be rather similar to California climate-wise (particularly Central Valley) but with a shorter, less intense dry season. I wonder how precipitation variability compares?
Never post Europe maps so figure I grab one this morning..
While jet stream lifts north and cold air deteriorates over the U.S, looks like cold air over Northern and NW Europe. Still a lot of cold air around the Pole.
850mb freezing line to Northern France. Anyone north of that line is below freezing at that level. Surface mostly in 40s/50s .
Squares are who was reporting what. Freezing fog Mt Washington. Snowing around Hudson Bay. Light snow northern Norway & Sweden. Drifting Sand in Africa
Never post Europe maps so figure I grab one this morning..
Squares are who was reporting what. Freezing fog Mt Washington. Snowing around Hudson Bay. Light snow northern Norway & Sweden. Drifting Sand in Africa
Interesting. I checked using yr.no, and yes, at 14:00 it was 0.6C in Kautokeino (306 m) on the Finnmark plateau and light snow. At 17:00 -0.1C at Suolovuopmi (381 m) near Kautokeino. But not snowing in Tromsø, 6C and sun there.
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