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One place that saw a slight decrease in average snowfall is Indianapolis, going from 25.9" to 25.5". It's driven by a notable drop in Fall snowfall, as Winter and Spring snow went up a bit. The October drop in snowfall is mainly because the freak 1989 event is no longer part of the averages. Even one event can have an outsized impact on a monthly average when it's so incredibly anomalous. What Has Changed Locally with the New 1991-2020 Normals? Indianapolis Area (IND) Temperature: All months except November experienced increases in average temperature Greatest increase in December: +1.7° All other months saw increases of 0.5° to 1.0° Increases in maximum and minimum temperatures were largely uniform, but there were several months where the minimum temp increases were greater 3 months with largest average temperature increases (December, May and September) experienced the greatest rises in minimum temperatures Seasonal average temperatures increased in all seasons (0.4° to 0.9°) Greatest increase in winter season (DJF) Annually, the average temperature rose 0.5° Precipitation and Snowfall: January and April experienced the greatest increases in precipitation amounts around 0.5” Largest drops in monthly precipitation occurred in May, November and December (0.25” to 0.5”) Precipitation increased in winter (DJF), spring (MAM) and summer (JJA); decreased slightly in fall (SON) Greatest seasonal increase during the summer (+0.64”) Annual precipitation has increased 1.19” Snow averages have decreased substantially in October and November with a minor drop in February The late fall drop in snow is largely responsible for the annual snowfall average lowering 0.4” from 25.9” to 25.5” Subtle increases in snowfall average for December, January and March Seasonal increase of 0.3” snow in winter and 0.6” in spring; decrease of 1.3” in fall

Somewhat surprisingly, we are back slightly over 1000 hospitalizations in Indiana for the first time since mid February. I didn't think we'd see that number again given the recent trends.

The 1991-2020 normals have officially been released. I can tell that LOT's pages were updated to reflect the new normals but I don't know if all of the other NWS offices have done so yet.

A whopping 0.07" at ORD yesterday.

Looking at this more closely, almost all of these were more of a fall/winter thing. Impressive to keep it going this long in Spring.

That's crazy. I do remember having a day or two with thunder imby this year.

Precip is on an overall weakening trend and ORD will come in well under 1/2". So today will be day 125 since the last calendar day 0.50"+. Even if you go by 2 day precip amounts, the last 0.50"+ event was 1/30-1/31.

Through 5/2, ORD has gone 124 consecutive days without a calendar day precip of 0.50" or greater. This is the 5th longest streak on record for Chicago. If the streak can make it through today, which looks like a possibility, then it would become a virtual lock to get into 3rd place given the upcoming forecast. The top streak is really in a league of its own. #of days, ending date 253, 4/16/1963 173, 3/27/1977 127, 2/10/1956 126, 2/6/1881 124, 5/2/2021 (still ongoing) 122, 6/19/1887 116, 3/10/1927 112, 3/20/1992 107, 2/25/1899 106, 2/20/1913

I get all my wx from Fish News.

Funny look with the counties that are in the polygon but not actually in the watch. Guess LOT didn't want to put any of their counties in.

Sorry for your loss. That is really quick for a seemingly healthy young person to go downhill and succumb. I wonder if it was one of the variants.

Hmm, that's interesting (the part about the panic attack). If you don't mind me asking, do you get those?

35k has been the sticking point for hospitalizations. Been hard to get under that number. Hopefully very soon.

My excitement level for severe wx is pretty low, especially around my neck of the woods. Have been hard pressed to have days with even a remote threat so far in this area, so will be watching the trends.

Surprised you're not writing off the whole month yet.

Not surprising when you consider the political differences between our counties. Per capita deaths are actually a bit higher in Huntington county, despite much less people/less density. 80 deaths in a pop of about 36,500 compared to 960 deaths in a pop of about 485,000 in Lake county.

Yes I was looking for any excuse to use this for mby

Saw a shopper without a mask yesterday. I see little kids without a mask sometimes but this is the first time in a long time that I have seen an adult customer in a store without one. It was a woman who was maybe in her 40s. I turned around and she was right there behind me. I don't know if she simply forgot (one time I almost walked inside before realizing I wasn't wearing one) or if it was purposeful.

Top shelf, and it's been nice having wind to take the edge off. After months of cold, 80s with no wind would probably feel a bit uncomfortable.

Looks like we are in the plateau death period for now, largely a consequence of hospitalization numbers hanging in a relatively tight range for the past 3-4 weeks or so.

Ended up with a high/low of 82/34 here.

Nice to be so close to the GOM like they are. A duck can fart and you get good moisture return in Dixie. Obviously there can be other problems in a given severe wx setup, but they don't have to deal with that one as much as areas farther north/west.

Certainly been a dry run. Not sure how it's going to play out. It's possible that it reverses itself soon and it ends up not being a big deal, but longer term predictability with these things isn't always the greatest. Looking back on 2012 (which I am not saying we are heading to something like that), we had the obnoxiously warm March but I don't think anybody really thought such an intense drought was going to follow that summer. It developed quickly and ended up being a once or twice in a lifetime type of drought for some areas.

With 0.71", it is the 6th driest April on record for Chicago. Also, it is the 5th time that each of the first 4 months of the year had less than 2" of precip (Jan: 1.95", Feb: 1.25", Mar: 1.25", Apr: 0.71"). The other years when that happened are 1915, 1934, 1958 and 1989.

One of these isn't like the others IND: +0.2 HUF: +0.6 LAF: +4.4 SBN: +0.8