michsnowfreak

Today is wild here in eastern MI. Cloudy and 35° at 1245pm with an inferno all around.

Not to mention the colors make it look so extreme. +0.8°-1.0° at Detroit and NYC.

They're just using the standard el nino climo like always lol

DTW is overcast and 35° at noon. What a way to run a nationwide torch day

Not expected to get out of the 40s here tmrw.

Wow. How much left?

That's a good catch. But the chart is saw has 1986-87 listed as moderate and 1987-88 as strong.

A strong Nino 3 years after a strong Nino? Ill believe it when I see it.

Id say D at best lol. They use blue so sparingly, imagine being in South Dakota thinking, wow if they use blue its gonna be COLD.

+4-5 is a reasonable guess. It will be the first warmer than avg month since October. Again, I was strictly talking about March 21 and beyond. Some insisted the western inferno would envelope the entire conus post march 21, and that will clearly not be the case. Rather, it looks like a mix of some warmer than avg days and some colder than avg days.

For western Midwest was warmer than normal, but torch was the Plains and West.

Good for the globe! Its been mentioned many, many times. It doesn't change the fact that it was a colder than average winter in the Great Lakes and northeast, or that the cold in that part of the globe often refused to budge. I understand that getting a cold winter where 90% of this forum resides, despite more widespread world warmth, does not sit well with some. But it doesnt mean it didnt happen or cant be discussed.

Im referring specifically to several posts that repeatedly referenced that following this cold shot, the western torch would envelop the entire conus and clearly that is not the case. Just had our coldest st paddys day in 59 years. And after milder days this weekend, there are several more cold shots en route for the lakes and northeast while the southwest continues to burn. Torch is subjective i guess. The word torch was never used til 2012. Now anything a few degrees above normal is a torch to some.

Once again, talks of a conus wide torch around the equinox screeched to a halt from the Great Lakes and northeast. As expected though, the southwest will fry.

With a high of 28 (and low of 17) it was the coldest St Patrick's Day in Detroit since 1967.