"Exceptional Cold Wave Engulfs 90% Of China-Beijing Sees Snow 23 Days Earlier Than Usual, North Africa Suffers Rare November Flurries, + Polar Cold Sweeps Australia"

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https://electroverse.net/cold-wave-engulfs-china-beijing-sees-snow-23-days-early-north-africa-suffers-nov-flurries-polar-cold-sweeps-australia/

"An exceptional ‘cold wave’ engulfed the majority of China over the weekend, delivering plunging lows and heavy snows.

On Saturday and Sunday, large parts of China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and Inner Mongolia, experienced their first snowfalls of the season, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said in a statement.

The cold snap, widely reported as being the earliest and most widespread in a decade (since the solar minimum of cycle 23),

is affecting approx. 1.2 billion people and 90 percent of the regions across the country,

including the southernmost tropical island of Hainan, where temperatures nosedived at least 8 degrees Celsius, reports globaltimes.cn.

The descending Arctic trough brought blizzard conditions to the north where they were measuring totals in the feet, totals that continue to pose serious challenges to transport, infrastructure, agriculture, and also the energy supply

–at a time when much of the Asian continent has already been grappling with shortages.

Across China, authorities are warning people to stay inside and reduce outdoor activities.  

Beijing received its first snow of the 2021-2022 season on Saturday — 23 days earlier than the average.

Furthermore, the mercury in the capital broke a 10-year record low.

... Thanks to the climate phenomenon known as La Niña, China is expected to suffer frequent cold waves this winter, warned meteorologists Zhao Huiqiang, an official from the CMA.

Many people are fearing a recurrence of the record-setting winter storm that swept southern China in 2008 (solar min of cycle 23).

... historically low solar activity weakened the jet streams and reverted their usual zonal flow to a meridional one which, in turn, pulled frigid polar air anomalously-far south:

North Africa Suffers Rare November Flurries

Morocco and Algeria have experienced their first frosts and widespread snowfalls of the season.

Remarkable lows of 4.9C (40.8F) were observed at Nado, a coastal city in northeast Morocco.

While rare early-November snow coated North Africa’s higher elevations, including the dunes of Algeria:

The cold air sank south from western Europe–a region that has been suffering record low temperatures and exceptionally-early snowfall in recent days, particularly across Spain and Portugal:

Continent-Spanning Polar Cold Sweeps Australia

The official start of summer may just around the corner, but Australian’s have been suffering intense chills of late.

... “Australia’s most significant driver of weather patterns, La Niña, is now active for a second consecutive year and will fuel weather systems with moisture for up to six months,” said Sky News Weather senior meteorologist Tom Saunders.

In Australia, La Niñas increase the potential for more storms, wet weather and cooler temperatures, particularly across the east.

In its climate driver update in late October, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) was officially on ‘La Niña alert’, one notch away from La Niña being declared; but since then, sea surface temperatures have dropped again.

“Expect lower maximum temperatures as we move to La Niña,” said BOM senior meteorologist Sarah Scully.

In Other News…

the Northern Hemisphere logged its first -55C of the season over the weekend.

The mercury at Summit Camp on the Greenland Plateau dropped to -55.6C (-68.1F) on Sunday, November 7"