Brown Baggin’ it for Christmas: Update 12/14/15
Now that half of December is down the drain and we don’t have a stitch of snow on the ground, let’s tackle the big question: Is there ANY hope for a White Christmas? At this point, I would say that a Brown Christmas is looking more like a certainty for this year. That’s no small thing […]
Winter, Missing in Action! Update 12/11/15
It’s been another brown week here in ilsnow land. I don’t see any real change coming for a while. So, I will give you a thumbnail sketch of what is going to happen for the remainder of December and more important: What needs to happen for winter to FINALLY make a show of force around […]
Winter in trouble, already? Update 11/30/15
We didn’t have snow on the ground for Thanksgiving and some people think winter is dead before it started. The problem with that line of thinking? How much snow we get in November has little consequence in regards to how the winter turns out. To get the true scope of what’s going on, we must step back […]
Winter Outlook: Update 11/5/15
Siberian Snow Cover Throughout October, the spread of snow cover from Siberia into Eurasia was ahead of climatological schedule. The books have closed on October 2015 Eurasian snow cover and the numbers are impressive. This chart snows a very robust Eurasian snow cover at the end of October: The relative lack of snow cover in Alaska and […]
Siberian Snow Cover: Update 10/19/15
That cold blast we had over the weekend was a nice jolt! The mountains got plastered white and some of the lower elevations got a small covering of snow. Temperatures barely cracked 32*F at the ilsnow.com storm center on Sunday afternoon, which was nearly 20*F below normal for October 18th. Very impressive cold! What’s Next? By […]
