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In reality, ALL of these harsh winter conditions have plagued different parts of the country this fall, leaving little to no areas untouched.
Will this be a sign of what's to come this winter or will Mother Nature start to loosen its frosty grip? More on what's happened (keep in mind we had to limit this to just a few main events because the wintry scenes have been endless) and what lies ahead this winter, below.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Snow accumulation between Nov. 2 and 7 has reached 18 cm on the ground in Dulan County, Haixi Mongolian Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, where the height above mean sea level averages 3,180 meters.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the "roof of the world," is an important region to monitor climate changes with the weather and the glaciers as indicators.
© NOAA/National Snow AnalysesSnowfall so far in 2018-2019 cold season as of November 19. 2018
The eastern Upper Peninsula has the most deviation from normal snowfall amounts. Sault Ste. Marie has already shoveled 26.7 inches of snow. This is 17.7 inches more than normal to this date.
Marquette is on the fast track to 100 inches of snow, with 34 inches of snow already falling in this early part of the cold season. Marquette is 15 inches above snowfall normal today.
Here's a rundown of how much snow has fallen as of November 19, 2018 and the departure from normal.
Snowy owl
The all-white arctic owl only visits Indiana during cyclical "irruptions" occurring every four to five years, but often the year following an invasion, such as occurred last winter, can produce an "echo effect," bringing another smaller invasion of owls southward, the organization says in a news release.
Comment: This standard explanation of cyclical irruptions has broken down for the last 7 winters, when exceptional numbers appeared every year. See the links below covering the time period which amply demonstrate this point. Some other environmental and/or climate factors seem to be involved.
Snowy owl numbers fluctuate year to year based on their primary prey — lemmings, giant mouse-like rodents — whose population also oscillates based on food supplies and weather conditions in the arctic. When populations spike, the owls respond with higher than normal breeding, with some nests containing ten or more eggs. The subsequent invasions later that fall result in not so much a food scarcity, but because of the abundance of food earlier that summer. Young owls tend to leave the arctic each winter, resulting in the larger-than-normal invasions.
Comment: A sample of the many reports for the last 7 seasons:
Winter 2017-18: Highest number of snowy owls ever recorded of 139 in 2017-18 winter across Indiana
Record number of 280 snowy owls counted in Wisconsin this winter
Winter 2016-17: At least 65 Snowy owls invade Bruce County, Ontario
Winter 2015-16: 30 Arctic Snowy owls arrive in Wisconsin; earliest date ever reported and record numbers
Winter 2014-15: An above average winter for sightings of snowy owls in Northeast America
Snowy owl sightings on the rise across the upper US
Winter 2013-14: Huge Snowy Owl invasion becomes official in Canada and U.S.
Winter 2012-13: Mysterious snowy-owl migration one of biggest on record
Winter 2011-12: US: Snowy owls soar south from Arctic in rare mass migration
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© DEBBIE JAMIESON/STUFFSnow at Arthurs Point near Queenstown on Monday morning.
MetService duty forecaster Bill Singh said an unstable southerly flow is the culprit behind the snow.
"As we move towards the day, the snow level is expected to rise to about 600 metres," he said.
"There has been a warning out for central Otago, inland Clutha and Southland for snow ... to [fall] to 800 metres where between 30 to 40 centimetres of snow is expected to accumulate."
"We are waiting for the roads to be reopened. Winter has come and we are stuck on the roads," said one driver in Kars province putting chains on his tires.
Nearly 80 cm of snow has fallen in Kars and 50 cm in other provinces.
And it is still coming down.
Snow piles up on bicycles outside the transit terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, after a snowstorm on Thursday
This affects global grain yields and food prices. If you think New York's old snow record was one inch and the new record is 6.2 inches, that's not CO2 its a new effects from our Sun on our magnetosphere and cloud patterns around Earth.
From record rains, to record snow and cold, this is the new era we are entering and I try to explain it the best I can using the Avery Winter Storm to show cause and effect.
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Agios Pavlos village in Vermio mountains, Naoussa.
People in mountainous villages in Florina, Naoussa, Pelion, Trikala, Grevena, Metsovo and even as south as Nafpaktia and Arcadia woke up and found everything covered in snow, with meteorologists predicting that the temperatures will remain low until Monday.
Comment: See also: Ice Age Farmer Report: Spudpocalypse: Worst harvest ever - Russia moves farms indoors for Grand Solar Minimum