Winter '13 / '14 - Eurasia Snowcover: September

Rutgers' Global Snow Lab reports a dramatic increase in September/s areal snow cover over Eurasia.

2,362,682 km^2
7th highest overall
49% above the period-of-record (1967 - 2013) normal of 1,587,905 km^2.
120% above 2012.
Largest areal coverage since 2001.

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Top chart:
BLUE - areal snow cover in millions of km^2
ORANGE - mean areal snow cover
YELLOW - +/- 1 standard deviations
RED - 9-point binomial filter

Bottom chart:
BLUE - period-of-record (1967 - 2013) median areal snow cover in millions of km^2
RED - observed areal snow cover (2013)

Rutgers data here.