okie333 Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 More large gains in Siberia and Kazakhstan... very amazing considering the time of year SNOW PIXEL COUNTS (total white minus 8000 [approximate number of white pixels that are map lines and not snow]) Yesterday: 731 Today: 838 One year ago today: 442 ICE PIXEL COUNTS (total yellow) Yesterday: 1430 Today: 1408 One year ago today: 1624 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstantWeatherMaps Posted September 14, 2011 Author Share Posted September 14, 2011 Fellow Okie, say goodbye to pixel counting pretty soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Fellow Okie, say goodbye to pixel counting pretty soon... heh so you got my hint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 FSU chart is now above average... amazing given the current state of sea ice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 More large gains in Siberia and Kazakhstan... very amazing considering the time of year I think you meant Siberia and Mongolia, but we got the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 I think you meant Siberia and Mongolia, but we got the point. Yes, I did No major changes... SNOW PIXEL COUNTS (total white minus 8000 [approximate number of white pixels that are map lines and not snow]) Yesterday: 838 Today: 831 One year ago today: 487 ICE PIXEL COUNTS (total yellow) Yesterday: 1408 Today: 1432 One year ago today: 1617 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Maybe a pixel add for Copper Mountain - Dusting so far! http://coppercolorado.com/winter/the_mountain/mountain_webcams/SuperBee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Still no major changes... SNOW PIXEL COUNTS (total white minus 8000 [approximate number of white pixels that are map lines and not snow]) Yesterday: 831 Today: 829 One year ago today: 600 ICE PIXEL COUNTS (total yellow) Yesterday: 1432 Today: 1451 One year ago today: 1609 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Large gains in Russia, small (but impressive given the time of year) gain in China... keep in mind with these numbers that last year had a very early start to the snow season... so it is almost unbelievable that snow is currently ahead of last year. SNOW PIXEL COUNTS (total white minus 8000 [approximate number of white pixels that are map lines and not snow]) Yesterday: 829 Today: 1010 One year ago today: 723 ICE PIXEL COUNTS (total yellow) Yesterday: 1451 Today: 1449 One year ago today: 1599 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Sorry if there's some rule against triple-posting, but this is absolutely phenomenal. Current (2 days ago... FSU uses a delayed dataset) snow/ice cover vs average... notice especially that ice is well below average, yet snow is hugely above average: Past year's graph... last year had more ice than this year, and it had a particularly early snow cover recovery... looks like we're crossing average even earlier this year, even with much less ice... snow cover is amazing right now: 35-55N snow cover... notice it's non-zero currently: 35-55N snow cover for the past year... notice that last year (which had a record-early start on the FSU dataset) started LATER than this year: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Global_Warmer Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Long term GFS and Euro both suggest Canada/Alaska will be warm while the Russian Snow pack builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Long term GFS and Euro both suggest Canada/Alaska will be warm while the Russian Snow pack builds. I love hearing those two things in the same sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 No big changes. SNOW PIXEL COUNTS (total white minus 8000 [approximate number of white pixels that are map lines and not snow]) Yesterday: 1010 Today: 1022 One year ago today: 915 ICE PIXEL COUNTS (total yellow) Yesterday: 1449 Today: 1470 One year ago today: 1599 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Ouch that's gotta hurt... SNOW PIXEL COUNTS (total white minus 8000 [approximate number of white pixels that are map lines and not snow]) Yesterday: 1022 Today: 778 One year ago today: 942 ICE PIXEL COUNTS (total yellow) Yesterday: 1470 Today: 1460 One year ago today: 1564 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 nice recent pop in ice per this link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Tiny loss... SNOW PIXEL COUNTS (total white minus 8000 [approximate number of white pixels that are map lines and not snow]) Yesterday: 778 Today: 747 One year ago today: 1007 ICE PIXEL COUNTS (total yellow) Yesterday: 1460 Today: 1449 One year ago today: 1527 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Nothing going on SNOW PIXEL COUNTS (total white minus 8000 [approximate number of white pixels that are map lines and not snow]) Yesterday: 747 Today: 730 One year ago today: 1209 ICE PIXEL COUNTS (total yellow) Yesterday: 1449 Today: 1433 One year ago today: 1526 Starting today, I will begin to add FSU-like 12Z GFS Analysis snow cover maps courtesy of InstantWeatherMaps.com. Today: 12Z SNOW COVER: Today: 3.19% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 This is the slowest loading thread I have ever seen lol. Those snow/ice cover maps load extremely slowly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 It's official. Starting today I will cease pixel-counting and will instead focus on the 00Z and 12Z values on InstantWeatherMaps.com Today 00Z Today 12Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PottercountyWXobserver Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I liked when you did pixel counting! that way I could follow changes of the approximate pixel numbers from day to day and comparing from years past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I liked when you did pixel counting! that way I could follow changes of the approximate pixel numbers from day to day and comparing from years past. Compare this to the FSU averages... they are about the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Oops forgot to post yesterday... so here's two days in one post. Yesterday 00Z Yesterday 12Z Today 00Z Today 12Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha5 Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 I like the old maps better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Oops forgot to post yesterday... so here's two days in one post. Yesterday 00Z Yesterday 12Z Today 00Z Today 12Z Pixel counting to me works better as it gives a definitive number that you can relate to, day to day and year to year. These maps look very similar from one to another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Pixel count the new maps since they are blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Why bother pixel counting when FSU does it for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrips27 Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 I like the old maps better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BethesdaWX Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Why bother pixel counting when FSU does it for you? Because he was comparing this season to last season directly? Wouldn't Pixel-count unless there was a comparison of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Because he was comparing this season to last season directly? Wouldn't Pixel-count unless there was a comparison of some sort. it's easy to compare this year to last year using the FSU data.. last year had ~800k sq miles more snow and ice.. but w/e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okie333 Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 Yes, and if you haven't noticed, the InstantWeatherMaps.com maps have the percentage (FSU-style) on the lower right corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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