You can have ours today, it’s not that exciting. 

Even with a skiing holiday you might struggle to find decent snow this season - apart maybe from the US Rockies resorts.

The outlook isn’t all doom and gloom though. I see some data this morning continues to increase the chances of a significant reduction in N pole zonal winds up to end if Jan, with an outside chance of a minor SSW by first week of Feb. With the lag effect we might see this resolve into HLB by mid-Feb, and should said HLB form in the right place we might go a bit cold.

All ifs, buts and maybes I agree but I’ll grasp anything that even remotely resembles a chance of proper winter at the moment. 

Spring like as we move into February. 

Interesting idea? Has anyone done a study to look in more detail at it?

Sorry, OT!

Yes, my central heating is from the 1970s, but still working (just!) Always grateful for it not to be tested too much. The Beast back in Feb 2018 was the last time I really had to put it under strain

Scandinavia is doing just fine

https://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/dynamic/scand?over=none&symbols=snow&type=snow.last7days

should at least make a change to perpetual autumn 

Hardly. That map shows Southern Sweden and Southern Finland free of snow. 

Yes but that's not really where the ski resorts are. More significant is the coverage of 1-10cm snow where many of the resorts are.  Skiing on those kinds of snow depths is at best uncomfortable and at worst impossible.

Edit: completely off piste. Sorry.

Many parts of eastern Europe are snow free  in fact all of Europe except maybe balkans but gosh this is a really snowfree Europe. The UKRAINE, Baltics, Eastern Europe and western Russia, Saint Petersburg & Moscow are snow free.

Half of Sweden is snow free - very rare to see so little snow given it's January!?

Iran looks frosty but inconsistent on your map Tally.

I quite like the ECM 12 z run.  Nowt spectacular, just not often stupidly mild.  Cold in northern Scotland in deep FI on a WNWly!

That's not snow depths. It's how much has fallen in previous days. In the previous 7 days some mountainous parts of southern norway have seen between 150cm-250cm fall.. good for skiing wouldn't you say?

I think the ECM is very promising by the standards of this winter.  Hey ho, its only the MO thread.

Yes, and this (below) shows the positive and negative anomalies. Our loss seems to be Central Asia’s gain https://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2020&ui_day=17&ui_set=2 

Perhaps, although not dissimilar charts have appeared and disappeared a few times this winter. If it progresses with time in a consistent way it will be more of interest I think.

No snow here = no anomaly

Great! Perhaps it will give me relief from the daily battle to get through the Dartmoor snowdrifts to work!

been monitoring this all winter. Moscow  has been virtually snow free all winter except for the odd short incursion. I am sure this is unheard of by the end of January even in their recent mild winters, Everything seems to have shifted East. Maybe in a decade's time we will pick up some of Canada's scraps!

Had a "winter experience" this morning when I lost traction on black ice  on a stretch of road - managed  not to hit anything or end up in a ditch.  Was on a minor road, so fair enough.   Saw a couple of nasty accidents  though on the main A339 that were almost certainly ice related.  I think the   benign  weather so far  has lulled  the LA  gritters into torpor around here.

half of Sweden and Finland completely snow-free in the middle of the coldest month of the year on average isn’t ‘doing fine’. Helsinki, Stockholm and Oslo are all expected to reach 6-7C over the next week, when average highs are below freezing. Even up north it’s much milder than average with unremarkable snow depths.

The Baltic states are doing terribly too, with all of Estonia, Latvia sand Lithuania free of snow.. its a dreadful winter for snow all over a Europe.