Autumn Snow Increasing; Signals Of A Cold Winter Ahead; World’s Oceans Cool In September; + NASA Study Claims Sun “Recovered” After 2008

Mainstream mid-range models will continue to project mild, but the physical drivers are pointing the other way.

Autumn Snow Increasing

The Rutgers Global Snow Lab shows large, early accumulations across northern Siberia as of September 17:

While early and heavy, this snow follows a trend.

Since records began (in 1967), Northern Hemisphere autumn snow cover has been on the up. Rutgers data show fall snow extent rising from ~18 million km² in the late 1960s to regularly exceeding 20 million km² in recent decades.

Several of the highest values on record have occurred since 2010: