Operational Daily Snow Cover Analysis U.S, Canada and Alaska

[CaptinCrunch]

As the Season moves more into a Fall/Winter pattern it's time to start watching the Snow pack across Northern Canada and Asia build with the hope of a Cold and Snowy Winter for the U.S.







http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/index.html

[CaptinCrunch]

UPDATE: Snow and ice coverage is not as great as what it was this time (Oct 11) last year.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH04/AK/ims2004285_alaska.gif

[CaptinCrunch]

UPDATE: Polar ice is well behind that of (Oct. 16, 2004) also snow cover to the south is still behind as well.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH04/AK/ims2004290_alaska.gif

[CaptinCrunch]

UPDATE: Asia is well behind the snow cover it saw this time last year, and Polar Ice on the northern side of the Pole is not as great in coverage as last year by Oct. 18.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH04/EuAsia/ims2004292_asiaeurope.gif

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/index.html

[CaptinCrunch]

UPDATE: The Polar Ice sheet has really picked up in coverage over the past week, still the snow pack across Central and Southern Canada is pretty sad compared to this time last year. Asia's snow pack has increased but it also is not as great as what it was by Oct 24, 2004.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH04/AK/ims2004298_alaska.gif

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH04/EuAsia/ims2004298_asiaeurope.gif

[CaptinCrunch]

The Polar ice field over the north pole is just about on target for Oct. 30 compared to this time last year. Snow pack across Asia is now ahead of what it was at this time last year with a snow pack into weatern Europe, the down side is that the snow pack across southern Canada is still well behind of what it was by Oct 30, 2004.

Snow cover for the U.S is in reverse of what it was last Oct. 30 with some snow cover on the East coast vs the large amount of snow cover across higher elavations of the western U.S.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH04/AK/ims2004304_alaska.gif

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH04/EuAsia/ims2004304_asiaeurope.gif

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH04/USA/ims2004304_usa.gif

[CaptinCrunch]

Snow pack is picking up across Eastern Canada!

[truballer#1]

dats good!

[CaptinCrunch]

Snow pack increases across western Canada and the NW U.S.

[gunner1551]

the west is hammering the east so far.. some in eastern canada but none in the Conus. Central US is startign to really pick up as well.

[CaptinCrunch]

Snow cover for Nov 16, looks good compared to the same date in 2003. Just about the same amount of coverage all the way around.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH03/USA/ims2003320_usa.gif
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/ARCH03/AK/ims2003320_alaska.gif

[Sean in New Orleans]

Nice to see this map back and in full swing...it's one of my Winter favorites.

[CaptinCrunch]

And they said the NW would be warmer than normal.....

[Sean in New Orleans]

Why isn't this still stickied? This is one thread I check almost daily on this site throughout the Winter and it's always stickied up top for us to check the snow cover.

[CaptinCrunch]

Please sticky this thread!! Thank you

[Wpwxguy]

Just keeps getting more and more impressive!

[CaptinCrunch]

As much as 1/2 of the country has snow on the ground and this next storm will increase the snow cover to the NE.

[CaptinCrunch]

bump

[vbhoutex]

That is one heck of a snow cover for this early in the season!!!

[Brett Adair]

That snow cover will fall in line with the pretty big arctic outbreak that will likely consume much of the CONUS over the next few weeks.