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Late Winter Snowfall Blankets Australia’s Blue Mountains, Ice Closes Various Roads

The Guardian reports that a “cold blast,” hit New South Wales in late August, ending the official winter season in Australia’s Blue Mountains with a coating of snow and...

Ski Resort Thriving in Lesotho, Southern Africa

Lesotho, a small African kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa, boasts the continent’s only operating ski resort south of the equator. Due to good snowfall this year, Africa News...

Snow Came Early to Alaska, Complicating Highway Travel

In early August the National Weather Service (NWS) issued an earlier than usual Winter Storm Warning for parts of Alaska. Fox Weather reports a “combination of cooler air, plenty of...

Scotland Experienced Coldest Winter in a Decade, Says BBC

The BBC recently reported that Scotland’s 2021/2022 winter season was unusually cold. Met Office forecasters said the Scotland recorded its coldest winter since 2011, with the west of Scotland being...

NWS Predicts More Winter Snow for Chicago, Great Lakes

NBC Chicago reports: Let it Snow? Chicago Area Could See More Precipitation Than Normal This Winter, NWS Models Show While we’re still enjoying summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter could...

Cooler than Normal August in the Balkans

Electroverse notes: While the Western half of Europe has witnessed a hot summer, the opposite has been true across the Eastern part of Europe. Continuing that trend, the Balkans and also...

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‘Arctic Blast’ Delivers Early September Freezing Temperatures and Snow to Scotland

Image: temperature chart for Scotland, Great Britain, and Wales showing cold air incursion on September 11. Source: Wxcharts.com “Scotland sees first snowfall in September as...

Kenya Experiences Unusually Cold September, Continued Cold Expected

Kenya’s weather agency, Kenya Met, is blaming unusual for the season rain blowing in from Ethiopia to the north, clouds, and a shift in...

Cold Weather Records Continue to Fall Across the Eastern and Central United States

Amid all the talk about record heat, parts of the United States have been experiencing unusually cold temperatures for this time of year. Several...

Parts of Canada Get Snow in an Early Sign of Fall

CTV News reported that scattered snowfall was reported across parts of Ontario on September 8. A sharp drop in temperatures prompted Environment and Climate Change...

Snow Comes Early to Kyrgyzstan’s Too-Ashu Mountains

Image: Snow at the entrance of Too Ashuu Tunnel in Kyrgyzstan, part of the Too-Ashu pass road system. Image from Google Maps. Repeated rounds of...