NATURE

Sea, land, river

PEOPLES

Community

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Dec 28^th	Winter Cometh
	For commentary snow pack

Arrow points to Shedin—Source for Map

Shedin Creek representative NW mountains--- Record maximum in early December while SW BC zilch

		How does Dec 2008 compare to earlier years?
		First – the snow was late in coming this year – thus December 1^st cover versus the 28^th --- Note the pink arrow is where the ice pack freezing

	How about earlier years?		But on this map looks like Rupert & QCI clear of snow in 2006
	Rupert and the Charlottes don’t show up well at this scale – so Vancouver Island most variable


	Records at NOAA site go back to 1998

2007 warmest in series

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This is update last year file ‘Watching Arctic freeze over’ – there I used October 20^th and Nov 11^th (latter copied here) --- Last year sea ice had not even reached Wrangell Island (pink arrow 2008 and red 2007) Plus Norton Sound (red arrow ’08) frozen already

And from 2006 (November). Then December ‘06

And ‘Traces Seen of winter 2004

		October 20^th
		Again when compare series see that 2008 freezing over faster than any year but 2004—which was colder (ice sheet continuous except for area south of Victoria Island (pink arrow on 2008)

Created by LG on 28/12/2008

Last updated on Monday, December 29, 2008

NATURE

PEOPLES

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

Winter Cometh