Weather so far

@Red - not sure bout 'early winter snowfall' for ski resorts. I've spent many years traveling to Denver for skiing. Including Thanksgiving. So 12/22 isn't exactly early. For example, Winter Park was cited. In 2009 and 2010 they opened mid-Nov. A-Basin is sometimes open 11 months of the year.

Unforunately Christmas snow has not come to Minnesota. We average about 40% of the season by now. We've 1 inch at most, which has melted away. .. Too warm and dry for this to happen again.

Here is 2010 comparisions to average
January -0.1
February -0.4
March +8.9
April +8.3
May +1.4
June +0.8
July +3.1
August +6.4
September -0.8
October +5.3
November +2.8
December -8

Here is 2011. (Sorry couldn't find first half though last Jan was likely more negative than Jan 2010.)
June +1.1
July +5.6 (6th warmest on record)
August +2.4
September +0.9
October +6.4 (8th warmest)
November +5.6 (11th warmest)
December +5.0(current trend to the 10th warmest)

In the last few decades (sorry should have listened more) Minnesota has see later beginning to snowfall and earlier snowmelts. Definitely a change in climate no matter what one believes as to why.
 
faethor said:
In the last few decades (sorry should have listened more) Minnesota has see later beginning to snowfall and earlier snowmelts. Definitely a change in climate no matter what one believes as to why.
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Last year and the year before we actually went the other way.
So much so that both winters were as cold and severe as any I can remember.

This came after several years of unusually mild winters (as anyone on here or amiga.org that remembers my annual whining about not being able to use my snowboard will attest).

This year has been weird so far. We had some snow, followed by about a week of sub-zero temperatures.

Then, over the last few days there has been a dramatic upturn, which partly explains the record +28 degree swing the other day.
 
:lol: The Belgians are taking Over Slowly but Surely
 
redrumloa said:
Snow, wind, rain cause holiday travel worries
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Still warm here. Dec 26th was 49 where I live, the warmest since 1906. Today is supposed to be close to 35. We are supposed to see 45 on Friday and rain. Last year by this time we had about 40 inches of snow.

Or Dec Ave highs are 26, Ave lows 11. I don't think we've been lower than 25? I woke up to 28 degrees as the low.

Jan is typically our coldest month with highs around 21 degrees. The Long Term weather forecast predicted cold Jan and Feb weather. We'll see. The first couple weeks of Jan look to be in the thirty and twenties but higher than normal.
 
We are having yet another day of strong gales (70mph). Seems to have been the theme since mid-december.

Temperature is down a bit - around seven degrees C compared to twelve yesterday - but still much higher than the last two years.

And November for the UK as a whole was 2.9 degrees above the 1971-2000 average. 1994 has the only warmer November in over 100 years of records.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/
 
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