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Below average in the majority of locations, except for Malmö, where the temperatures remain mild along with Denmark. Aside from that and coastal locations like Gothenburg and Bergen, the vast majority of Fennoscandia will have snow on the ground the coming week.
I buy that -22/-32 will happen. That far out I trust the Euro model more and ECMWF has the colder air going much further east.
We certainly do get cold days with low diurnals from time to time. A one degree range would be unusual but certainly ranges of 2 or 3 degrees with cold temperatures (i.e. subzero Fahrenheit) can happen a few times a winter. They usually happen near the start of a cold spell when there's a surface low in conjunction with the arctic front creating cloud cover and/or snow. Last February 2 for example the range was -18.8/-21.0°C; two days later it was -39°C.
LOL, I meant to say "I don't but that -22/-23 will happen". Ooops.
As expected, all models have backed off on severe cold for Edmonton: it's going further east. Nothing more than a glancing blow for us here.
LOL, I meant to say "I don't but that -22/-23 will happen". Ooops.
As expected, all models have backed off on severe cold for Edmonton: it's going further east. Nothing more than a glancing blow for us here.
-7/-14 averages for a week aren't out of place here during a cold wave, but -19°C highs certainly are. Still, Edmonton being that volatile and on such a high latitude, a late twist and a -22°C high therefore wouldn't surprise me one bit...
Still snowing in Grytviken (4 m AMSL; 54° S) next week—still midsummer:
Now this is a proper polar climate!
It's difficult to argue against that with those summers, but I'd say -1.7°C winter means are rather disappointing if we're talking a polar climate! Those cold furious fifties are rather sensational though in how cold those currents actually are. It's similar to, but colder than, those isolated Alaskan islands torn between the Siberian High and the Aleutian Low...
I would say nothing beats areas around Hudson Bay and Labrador in terms of coldest annual mean. I know Siberia and other Canadian locations might get colder in winter but these areas don’t even get warm enough in the summertime to grow trees and they’re below 60N, sometimes 55N. Even at 50N you’re getting into that stunted conifer/taiga territory.
Got this idea from alex. Apparently this is the forecast for the summit of Denali.
Could be BS, as many ice cap forecasts are, but I've read that the summit does get down to -70C on occasion.
I've heard these stories about Denali as well. About the top, and about a place on the ice sheet at around 5000m in altitude which could go way below -60...Don't know if there are weather stations around, but hopefully someone knows more about it.
^Oh thanks for bumping this. Forgot it even existed here. Yes there apparently is an automatic weather station at 5.8k AMSL, and it can indeed get to -60c in the winter, at least according to Wikpedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali#Weather_station). It's not NWS maintained though (obviously, I mean who would go up there to do routine maintenance?).
Anyways, past few days, Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk have been seeing temps of -70 F (-57C):
I would like to go to Yakutsk but it is too much money for a Turk.
Just going and coming back with airplane is 5 times higher than minumun wage salary in Turkey. Only airplane price.
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