Organizing Low Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 http://www.ctv.ca/CT...hillips-111205/ i kept reading all this talk about the massive snowcover in canada, probably based on those snowcover maps......which left me scratching my head. i posted some threads about snowless records being broken in canada. its a dismal state of affairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BethesdaWX Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Who mentioned "massive snowcover" in Canada? Most of the Snow has been on the other side of the pole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organizing Low Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 Who mentioned "massive snowcover" in Canada? Most of the Snow has been on the other side of the pole. its been mentioned. just posting this as an update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha5 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The fact that theres no snow over the eastern provinces doesnt surprise me at all....just look at the NAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organizing Low Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 The fact that theres no snow over the eastern provinces doesnt surprise me at all....just look at the NAO yeah the fact that quebec city is currently green is just...well....disturbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 You have to admit, regardless what's causing it, years with minimal snowcover are becoming more common. Ottawa wintersare not as reliably cold and snowy as they once were. Snowy years like 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 are becoming the exception rather than the rule, while back in the 50s the opposite was the case. 1952-53, for example, stands out like a sore thumb in the 50s, at least up in Ontario. Note that I'm not saying this is a result of AGW - just saying it's a trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BethesdaWX Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 You have to admit, regardless what's causing it, years with minimal snowcover are becoming more common. Ottawa wintersare not as reliably cold and snowy as they once were. Snowy years like 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 are becoming the exception rather than the rule, while back in the 50s the opposite was the case. 1952-53, for example, stands out like a sore thumb in the 50s, at least up in Ontario. Note that I'm not saying this is a result of AGW - just saying it's a trend. Winters up there correlate broadly to the frequency of La Nina on a decadal scale, harder to find it in the interdecadal trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 You have to admit, regardless what's causing it, years with minimal snowcover are becoming more common. Ottawa wintersare not as reliably cold and snowy as they once were. Snowy years like 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 are becoming the exception rather than the rule, while back in the 50s the opposite was the case. 1952-53, for example, stands out like a sore thumb in the 50s, at least up in Ontario. Note that I'm not saying this is a result of AGW - just saying it's a trend. A warm PDO translates to warmer and drier Winters across our region and much of Canada in general and this combined with the warm AMO after 95. There was a -PDO from the mid 40's thru the mid 70's. Warm PDO from the mid 70's thru 2006. We'll see. 2009-10 was an exception because it was a Strong Nino and this combined with the extremely WB -NAO suppressed the storm track further south than usual. Last year was a more typical Nina pattern from Mid Jan onwards. Many regions south of EONT/SQUE. got above normal snowfall. We'll see what happens thru da next few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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