Kiev and Minsk - First snowfall by end of the week.

[summer blizzard]

Hey..

 

Looking at various forecasts i noticed the snowcover and cold air moving west so looking to eastern Europe i was suprised to see that both Kiev and Minsk are forecast snow.

 

How early is this relative to average?

[Guest]

Didn't they have significant snowfall when the Germans put Operation Barbarossa into effect and the Russians were saying they were thankful for General Winter? 

[summer blizzard]

Turns out a large part of Asia and eastern Europe is forecast to be as much as 9F below average.

[cheeky_monkey]

Didn't they have significant snowfall when the Germans put Operation Barbarossa into effect and the Russians were saying they were thankful for General Winter? 

yep Moscow had its first snowfall on 2nd October that year and was well below freezing by the end of the 1st week in November...however I think the winter 1941-2 was their equivalent of our 1962-3 was the coldest winter in 250 years or something like that.