Keep a watch on Europe and Asia in this upcoming winter. The Greenland SMB is still running around 100 Gt above the average trend line. The end of the melt season may occur within 6 weeks from now. If the SMB stays well above the average trend line line at the end of this melt season, then we will witness unprecedented and record breaking snow mass gain on Greenland starting around October.

I think that there is a strong probability that this upcoming winter will bring deep harsh cold waves across Asia and into Europe. The electrical grid in Germany and France will be imperiled under such conditions. Both nations came very close to having their electrical grids shutting down in the last winter. Real climate change will set in.