The higher elevations of Alaska are forecast a foot+ of global warming goodness beginning Thursday evening, while the city of Anchorage is expected to tie a 40-year-old record for early snow, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
From 6PM Thursday through 1PM Friday, the weather service forecasts 6 to 12 inches of wet snow on the Anchorage Hillside and in the South Fork area of Eagle River, with localized dumps easily surpassing a foot.
Officials have advised commuters to take it slow Friday morning — that’s when the city is most likely to see the heaviest snowfall.
Anchorage has already seen measurable snow this week, on Tuesday; however, because the inches didn’t settle at the Ted Stevens International Airport –the official NWS measuring spot– they didn’t count.
Tuesday’s flurries were sizable, too.
More than 4 inches were registered outside of Eagle River at higher elevations, and up to 3 inches on Anchorage’s upper Hillside
MIGRANTS FREEZING TO DEATH ON BELARUS-POLAND BORDER AS EARLY-SEASON ARCTIC COLD GRIPS EUROPE
Close to the border between Belarus and Poland, the BBC has said migrants stranded in a forest, turned away by the Polish border troops, are struggling to deal with an early influx of polar cold.
Nighttime temperatures in this regions have been dropping we-ll below freezing this week, and, tragically, at least four people are known to have died.
EU members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania have each declared a state of emergency amid a surge of people trying to cross from Belarus. The EU has accused the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as a weapon, while Poland has banned aid workers and journalists from its border zone — the truth, as usual, is hard to come by.
Also as per usual, the BBC is focusing solely on the humanitarian side of all this and is completely sidestepping the fact that people are freezing to death in central/eastern Europe in the month of September! Just imagine if these folks were perishing in a late-season heatwave — the BBC would sure have a thing or two to say about the weather then, wouldn’t they…
Looking at the GFS temperature anomaly map (shown below), the nations of Belarus and Poland are located under that mass of ‘pink’, located just east of Germany. Shades of pink/light-purple indicate temperature departures of some 12-18C below the seasonal average which, in turn, are driving nighttime temperatures well-below the freezing mark.
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) this week [tropicaltidbits.com].
This anomalous freeze is forecast to persist for the foreseeable.
Winter-like conditions have begun early across Europe this year, just as a prolonged bout of low solar activity predicted.
And given the ever-intensifying gas crisis, European’s are being urged to secure back up power sources before winter-proper hits.
Global gas prices soaring (due to cold weather depleting supplies).
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