Early-Season Snowstorm To Hit Norway; Record Cold Continues Across Southeast; Earliest Polar Vortex Collapse Could Be Brewing; + Solar Storms, Auroras And The Weakening Magnetic Field
The shield is thinning, and the next phase could arrive within mere years.
Early-Season Snowstorm To Hit Norway
Winter is about to strike with force across Norway, particularly central regions.
Starting Thursday (Nov 13), fierce polar air will sweep south, replacing autumn’s rain with snow across the likes of Nordfjord, Møre og Romsdal, and Trøndelag.
The snow line is dropping rapidly to below 300 m (980 ft) —forecast to sink even lower throughout Thursday— as flurries spread south from northern Trøndelag. Totals could reach a foot in just 24 hours, with significantly more in mountain areas.
Authorities have issued a snow warning, citing difficult driving conditions and possible delays in air and public transport.
As the cold air deepens into the weekend, the snow is forecast to build early over the wider Scandinavia region.
Record Cold Continues Across Southeast
The Arctic cold pool refused to budge Wednesday, delivering another round of record lows across the Southeast.
Areas of Florida have registered their coldest and earliest readings in half a century. Ocala dropped to 28F (-2.2C) and Gainesville to 29F (-1.7C), both breaking records that had stood since the mid-1970s.
Farther north, Lake City, Cross City, and High Springs also logged sub-freezing lows, marking one of the most extensive early-November freezes on record for the region.
Frost coated lawns as far south as the I-4 corridor, while inland Georgia and the Carolinas remained locked under the same Arctic air mass, posting another morning of record/near-record cold following Tuesday’s frosty sweep.
With the core of the high now drifting east, temperatures are expected to slowly moderate — for now...
Earliest Polar Vortex Collapse Could Be Brewing
Models show a potential major Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) developing by late November — an unprecedented atmospheric disruption.
