Snowfall in Northern Russia

This is off topic from Russia summer snow, but along the lines to Laura's comment:

Laura said:
Good idea. Don't know if you read the Sci-fi book "The Sixth Winter", but it makes you think when taken with other information.

Maybe this needs a thread of its own. When I looked at the line of tropical systems in the Pacific and read the sentence below I couldn't help but think of a super storm brewing where all of these systems connect into one big storm system/line.

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/07/06/7-tropical-systems-over-north-pacific-ocean/

"Meanwhile, 7-day rainfall accumulation data collected by GPM core observatory shows a very large area of rain stretching from the west coast of Mexico all the way to China and into Indian Ocean."

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This blog guy says it is unprecedented, but I'm not so sure about that. The last few years we have seen a couple times where typhoon after typhoon slammed into the western Pacific one after the other.
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2015/07/unprecedented-nasa-tracking-7-tropical.html
 
Vorkuta, 06.07.2015 14:38:08


Video:
http://video1.cihan.com.tr/dl1/78af3595093f04366c68a4992e8bdc88/54756520/prx_mp4/06-07-2015/1813540.mp4
 
What a lot of these peeps who talk about global warming don't realize is that a rise in global temps is always followed by sudden glacial rebound. Ya gotta have a lot of heat to evaporate the water that starts falling as snow...
 
Altair said:
Snow on Yamal Peninsula (Northern Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamal_Peninsula

Yeah, I've mentioned this here too yesterday (Salekhard is also Yamal area), thanks for the map and the video Altair.

This cooling is quite extensive: it stretches from the North of Russia to its South. It snowed in Chelyabinsk (the Urals) yesterday too, but Russian meteorologists say that last year it also snowed in Chelyabinsk in July.

The yesterday's forecast of average temp anomalies below shows the whole area: Murmansk; Salekhard (Yamal); the Urals (Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg) and even Omsk (South of Siberia). So it basically stretches up to Russia's South border with Kazakhstan.

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Laura said:
What a lot of these peeps who talk about global warming don't realize is that a rise in global temps is always followed by sudden glacial rebound. Ya gotta have a lot of heat to evaporate the water that starts falling as snow...

And it apparently goes hand in hand with solar activity. From the Pierre's book:

Not only is the decreased solar activity observed over the last few years similar to the lack of activity seen around 1650, the Maunder Minimum was also preceded by a period of increased solar activity (the ‘Medieval Maximum’). As depicted in figure 111 (blue area), most of the 20th century was a period of exceptionally intense solar activity, known as the ‘modern maximum’ or ‘grand solar maximum’.
 

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Keit said:
Altair said:
I posted an article about the snow in Vorkuta on Russian Sott. I think we should keep an eye on any unusual weather events in Northern Russia reported on the Russian internet. Added some new Google Alerts.

Just stumbled upon the following info about daily temperature and weather extremes around the world on meteoinfo.ru site. Maybe can be useful. Here it is translated into English.

Yesterday we had 38 C, today we expect some thunderstorms and is been said that temperatures will drop below 25C.
Joy
 
Not sure whether there is a direct connection. According to this article http://www.severinform.ru/?page=newsfull&date=08-07-2015&newsid=231122 the population of brown bears doubled on Kola Peninsula in 2015 and the population of white bears has been increasing (http://www.murmansk.kp.ru/online/news/2008099/).

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Just noticed interesting extreme temps today.

-15.1 (Norm = 5.1) TYUMETI (Russia)
-13.4 (Normal = 18.2) Lepsinsk (Kazakhstan)
-12.9 (Normal = 14.1) Suusamyr (Kyrgyzstan)

20.7 (norm = 6.9) SAYNT-Germaine-de (Canada)
17.5 (norm = 7.2) MENIBERRIES (Canada)
16.9 (normal = 11.4), Cochabamba (Bolivia)

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Yesterday St. Peterburg (and Chelyabinsk) experienced sudden and strong lightning storm + hail (in Chelyabinsk also strong winds up to 25 m/sec). Sounds very Day after Tommorow to me!.

Here's some footage, and this:

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Yet another anomaly, this time in the south of Siberia (Google translation from Meteo News), July 15th 2015:

The scientists of Khakassia reserve visited the slopes of the Shaman mountain and found a rare natural phenomenon - a bright pink snow with a delicate flavor of watermelon. This effect is created by the unicellular algae Chlamidomonas nivalis (red-snow alga), unique cold-loving organisms which survive in a narrow temperature range of 0 to +4C°.

In fact, these creatures are often found in our country. Usually, however, their natural habitat is polar regions of the Arctic Ocean. In southern latitudes, organisms appear only on high mountains of the Caucasus, Yakutia and Kamchatka. There, at altitudes of more than 3 kilometers friendly temperatures are maintained for Chlamydomonas.

But this time the Arctic dwellers managed to get to the south of Siberia due to the anomalies of this summer. For example, June started cold in Khakassia: the average temperature was nearly 2.5°C below normal, then the air warmed up better, but nevertheless the first month of summer was one of the coolest in this century.

You are rightly surprised: after all, +16-20 °C is unbearable heat for the cold-loving algae. But it was influenced by the mountain climate. It is known that with increasing altitude atmosphere temperature decreases every 100 meters, on average, by 1°C. That is, if at the foot of the Shaman the thermometer shows +20°C, then at the level of 1,700 meters, where watermelon snow was found, the air is heated only up to +3°C. That's exactly what you need for the active development of Chlamydomonas.

Biologists believe that an unusual phenomenon in Khakassia is nothing more than a natural curiosity. Microorganisms are not toxic and do not carry any threat to humans. However, this does not mean that the tourists who are going to the mountains of the Caucasus or Khakassia now can taste the watermelon snow. Ice and snow, contrary to popular belief, are teeming with life. For example, Chlamydomonas are a favorite food of the newly discovered ice worms. These parasites are no longer than 2 centimeters; they go up to the surface only in the evening, before sunset. And up to 30 worms per one square meter can be found here, although in some places there are clusters of up to 300 of them. Microalgae in the worst case could only trigger indigestion. But the worms are not so harmless when entering the body. So enjoy the natural wonders of the best in the distance, and don't try to taste them!

The video:

 

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