Moscow: Avg Temps Above Freezing Dec 2019 - Feb 2020; Helsinki: No Measurable Snow Jan-Feb

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NCEP GFS air temperature anomaly for the winter of 2019-2020, relative to 1981-2010. Graphic: Karsten Haustein / Twitter

The meteorological winter of 2019-2020 shattered temperature records in Russia and France as well as other parts of Europe and the United States. In Moscow, this was the warmest winter in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, and the first winter there to have an average temperature at or above 32 degrees (0 Celsius).

The average winter temperature during the months of December, January and February in Moscow was 32.3 degrees (0.2 Celsius), which is 11.3 degrees (6.3 Celsius) above the 1981-2010 average, and shatters the previous record held by the winter of 1960-61 by an astonishing 3.5 degrees (2.8 Celsius), according to Etienne Kapikian of Meteo France, along with the Russian TASS news agency.

In Moscow, officials brought in artificial snow for New Year’s celebrations because both December and January hit monthly temperature records as the city went through a rare snow drought. Data is still coming in, but it’s possible that Russia as a whole set a record its warmest winter yet as unusually mild conditions were seen in Siberia as well.


Maximum snow depth in Helsinki, 1922-2020. Helsinki had 2 cm of snow during a few days in December and November 2019. This winter was the first January-February period on record without any measurable snow in Helsinki. Graphic: Mika Rantanen / Twitter

Other parts of Europe also missed out on winter. In Helsinki, no snow fell in January or February for the first time on record, and just 0.2 centimeters fell during the entire winter. Not surprisingly, Finland saw record warmth for the season. France as a whole had its warmest winter on record. According to Meteo France, the average temperature this winter was 4.86 degrees (2.7 Celsius) above average.

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https://desdemonadespair.net/2020/03/winter-2019-2020-warmest-on-record-in-moscow-first-winter-to-average-above-freezing-temperature-milestones-set-across-europe-and-north-america-german-ice-wine-harvest-fails-for-f.html

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1. Repugs: #globalwarming is a HOAX!

[Botany]

2. This is the first time in 20 + years there hasn't been enough snow to x-country ski in Western MD.

It used to be when I went over there and got a cabin just because of the elevation and weather
patterns it would snow almost every day.