It’s getting towards that time of year for cooler air starting to make inroads further south, but snow, already? Well for some, we may well see snow across several regions of the Northern Hemisphere next week thanks to several lobes of modified early season cold pools sink south into the mid-latitudes.

What first caught my attention was the setup for Iceland early next week with a low pushing northeast and deepening off the east coast while very cold air to the north drives south over the island courtesy of stinging northerlies blowing on the backside of the low. The latest GFS chart for Monday shows the unusually deep 528 height line dropping across and well south of Iceland and suggests snowfall for a large parts of the island, even down to near sea level by Tuesday. The capital, Reykjavik could even see some unusually early snowfall.

The GFS shows a large area of Iceland snowcovered by Tuesday. This trough drives all the way south to France by Wednesday and with chilly 850 temps and cold northwest winds blowing down over Britain from Greenland, even the tops of the Scottish mountains may even see snowfall. The mountains of western Norway and parts of Russia too all appear to see some snow next week. It’s not just Europe but North America too with a deepening trough dropping out of Alaska and into Western Canada, all the way into the Northwestern US next week and snow is forecast to accummulate over the Yukon, Northwest Territories and possibly into the higher elevations of British Columbia and Alberta. Baffin Island and Northern Quebec may also see their first snowfall of the year next week, all according to the GFS.

Snow forecasted for parts of Yukon, NWT, even BC and Alberta