Canada Still Hasn’t Seen 20C; Freezing March Across Scandinavia; Deadly Norwegian Avalanches; Monthly Lows Fall In Argentina; + Snow Strikes Northern China
Canada Still Hasn’t Seen 20C
Canada is still waiting on a temperature reading of 20C (68F), with 2014 the last year said benchmark was reached so late.
The forecast says it could happen this week, but a powerful Colorado low will be the dividing line.
According to The Weather Network, Wednesday could see southern Ontario close in on 20C reading; however, the likes of southern Manitoba, for example, will be stuck in winter, grappling with blowing snow and blizzard conditions.
It’ has been almost’s been 50 days since Winnipeg, Manitoba logged a temperature above freezing.
That cold is set to persist this week, with snow and even blizzards pushing in Tuesday. This April snowstorm means business, concludes The Weather Network — expect more than a foot to accumulate across pockets of NW Ontario and SE Manitoba.
Freezing March Across Scandinavia
Record-breaking cold has gripped Scandinavia in recent weeks.
March 2023 in Finland was exceptionally cold, particularly in the north where average temperature anomalies for the month held as much as -5.2C below the multidecadal norm:
Likewise in Sweden, March 2023 was historically cold, and also very snowy.
Temperature anomalies held -5C below in the North of the country:
Deadly Norwegian Avalanches
Staying in Scandinavia, at least four people have died in Norwegian avalanches following weeks of heavy snowfall.
Authorities are now warning people to stay away from the mountains.
A sieres of avalanches took place in the Troms region of Norway on Friday: Two people died when an avalanche hit a house on Reinøya; another died in the avalanche in Lyngen; while the fourth confirmed death occurred in Nordreisa.
Boats from Redningsselskapet (Norwegian Sea Rescue Society), as well as other small boats aided in the search and rescue attempts after one avalanche swept animals and buildings into the sea. The search for more victims here also continues.
Following the tragedies in Troms, the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) is urging people to avoid the mountains. Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre echoed the calls: “The situation is serious and still unclear. It is now very important to follow advice from the authorities and aid corps not to go out to areas with danger warnings. There is a significant risk of avalanches in several parts of the country,” said Støre.
The situation across Norway, particularly the north, is “highly unstable,” warns the NVE. The threat level has been raised to 4, or extremely high.
Monthly Lows Fall In Argentina
While heat has dominated much of Argentina of late, Autumn has now hit with a record-breaking bang.
Santa Cruz City set three March low temperature records in a row to close out last week, all besting the old mark of -4C (24.8F) set in 1972. Similarly in Trelew, March 31 brought a low of -1.7C (28.9F) which broke the locale’s March record of -1.6C from 2002.
Practically all of Patagonia crashed below 0C (32F) over the weekend, with the cold now extending into April, and also extending northward, too, into the likes of Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and southern Brazil.
Snow Strikes Northern China
Northern China, namely the country’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has been enduring unseasonable snows. A further intensification is expected in the coming days as a fierce cold wave plunges unusually-far south.
To close out the month of March, Lhasa, for example, saw its largest March snow since 2009 (solar minimum of cycle 23).
And looking ahead, the local meteorological bureau is expecting further heavy rains, snows and also an intensification to the cold this week and have advised northern citizens accordingly, to take precautions.
Areas including the Bayannur City, as well as the central and eastern part of Ordos City are forecast blizzards, with precipitation totals here set to break historical benchmarks.
While further north, record-breaking snowfall is already blanketing an extremely wide area. This April, more than 15 stations have busted daily precipitation records, with some spots logging more than 20cm (8 inches) of snow, which is astonishing and also in great contrast to the south’s warmth.
From Harald Yndestad to day. Negativ NAO Will give us colder climate in Europa.
Sorry for bad english,
https://www.climateclock.no/2023/04/nao-update-2023/
SW Florida, after a morning temp bump to 72 F, today is back to
a much cooler 64 F, with Fog. Officially in a drought here as well.
morning temp bump yesterday 3 Mar 2023 to 72 F
Just checked Accuweather, it appears we go to the summer climate here in SW Florida with the possiblitity of afternoon showers daily April 9th, with 40% chance of showers daily for six days, then every couple of days after that. This is a pattern, a very sudden shift from dry to monsoon that 20 years ago took place on 1st June, start of Hurricane Season. It would not surprise me if we had early tropical storms this year. Last year we did, with no storms during August only to have very devastating Hurricane IAN on 28th Sept.
My neighbor just yesterday asked me to get my tree debris moved off the street so she would not be constantly reminded about it. Estimated cost $1500.
Dallas
The night temperatures have been so low in Finland that no chance taking my seedlings in to my hoophouse nursery.. maybe later this week. Still waiting the swans to arrive yodeling. They know when the spring starts.
I’m 60 miles south of Canada and 20C isn’t forecast until the middle of May. It’s 29F now at 07:00, record is 29F from 2020. Frost got my apple trees last year, they started budding last week when it reached the high temp of the year so far of 61F.
There was 3000 feet of ice here 10,000 years ago so it could be worse;)
Mt Hood Oregon got 64 inches of snow over the weekend and it’s still snowing. 162.5cm. The last time the snow groomers were able to do their thing on the top run was a month ago on 4/3/23 when they plowed all night and got three areas flattened out, I saved a pic because there’s only a few days when you can see the mountain. Mt Hood is a 11,245ft volcano on the south side of the Columbia River. The storms come in off the ocean and go up the river, the path of least resistance.
https://www.timberlinelodge.com/conditions
https://www.timberlinelodge.com/mountain/trail-map
Mt Bachelor Oregon, another volcano, only got three feet over the weekend. They’re south and inland, still snowing with no vizzz: https://www.mtbachelor.com/the-mountain/webcams/mountain
No 20C reached there, it’s still full-on winter.
12F, snowing, no viz at: https://www.crystalmountainresort.com/the-mountain/mountain-report-and-webcams/webcams
MAG 6.1 Sinabung Indo, MAG 6.5 Kamchatka, MAG 7 New Guinea, MAG 5 El Salvador:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-76.92061,-369.14063&extent=84.9901,-31.64063
My fun meter is fricking pegged.
CRs and Sun quiet, no big coronal holes to cause the quakes. There was massive Schumann Resonance spikes caused by unknown forces which were never recorded like this before 2019 when they got the new HAARPs, Note the small quakes in Alaska and the timing between the big quakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30vllY6ddpk
La Nina number finally out for March, up three tics:
https://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ONI_v5.php
Spots were up, flux was down:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
Siberian frosts are getting stronger
Despite the fact that March weather in northern Siberia was unstable, with cold waves alternating with heat waves, the month turned out to be warm on average. The air temperature exceeded long-term indicators by 1-2 degrees.
Weather instability persists in April. On the first day of the month, night frosts in Taimyr increased to -20..-25°C, and on Sunday weakened to -5..-10°C. But on both Saturday and Sunday, the average daily temperature significantly exceeded the long-term average.
But winter in northern Siberia does not give up. The frost will intensify in the coming days. On Tuesday, the temperature in Taimyr will drop to -30, in Evenkia to -13..-18°C. In the middle of the week, frosts will weaken again. The center of abnormal cold will move to the western regions of Yakutia.
And in the second half of the week, arctic air with very low temperatures will begin to enter northern Siberia. The inhabitants of the far north will be the first to feel the breath of the Arctic, where already on Thursday the temperature will be 8-10 degrees below normal.
Gradually, frosts will spread to the south, and on Friday, unusually cold weather is expected throughout the Krasnoyarsk Territory from Cape Chelyuskin to Krasnoyarsk.
https://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=230403101836