Mount Fuji in Japan was covered with snow a month earlier, a snowstorm raged in Krasnoyarsk, snow fell in the Stavropol region, and a record cold snap in Minsk was recorded in the last hundred years. In general, climatologists predict a harsh, snowy winter.
In Belarus, the average daily air temperature was below long-term values by 2-3 °C, and in some places by 5. In some settlements, record low temperatures were recorded. Thus, in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, early in the morning of October 9, the thermometer dropped to -3.6 °C; the previous absolute minimum (-2.1 °C) had lasted since 1925.
Japan’s 3,776m Mount Fuji was covered in snow 25 days earlier than usual and 21 days earlier than last year. An employee of the Kofu local meteorological office noticed a lightly powdered white top on September 7th.
In the south of Russia, at the end of October, snow covered the Stavropol region and Stavropol itself, although the local weather station did not record snow cover. In the Krasnodar Territory, Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia, a snow cover of 1 to 4 cm formed at the same altitude as Stavropol. The snowstorms were much stronger in the mountains – real winter snowdrifts had already formed there.
The South Pole experienced the coldest “winter” in human history, with Antarctica averaging -61.1°C between April and September 2021. This was reported by Electroverse.net. This was the region’s coldest 6-month period ever recorded and surpassed the previous coldest period of -60.6°C set back in 1976 (weak cycle 20 solar minimum); in June, July, August and September this year, the average temperature in each of these months dropped below -60 °C – a phenomenon that was observed only 3 times in the past: in 1971, 1975 and 1978.
At the same time, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), working under the auspices of the UN, recognized a new temperature record in Antarctica during the summer months in Antarctica. On February 6, 2020, the Argentine weather station Esperanza recorded warming – a temperature of 18.3 °C on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Meteorologists report a possible intensification of the west-east transfer of air masses. As a result, much of the country will experience more rain than usual. The most significant anomalies will be observed in Southern Russia, in the upper reaches of the Ob, Yenisei, Baikal region, as well as in the north of the Far East. The persistence of significant ice masses in the Arctic will have a significant impact on the Northern Hemisphere’s winter weather. In such a situation, the circumpolar vortex, which forms in the free atmosphere above the pole, will be more powerful. In other words, increased amounts of snowfall are expected this coming winter.