Hoosier

Y'all keep trying to deflect or move the goalposts. Let me ask a question. If you are in your home (whatever type of home it may be... well built, not well built, mobile home, whatever), are you in more danger if you're watching a snowstorm or a hurricane out of your window?

How many deaths from caved in roofs bc of snow have we had lately?

That's adding another element though -- being out on the roads. If you're at home, you have like zero chance of dying from snow. Meanwhile if you're at home during a hurricane, you could still die from the associated surge or even the wind damage.

Yeah ok. When's the last time a snowflake destroyed somebody's house?

A blessing to have experienced such storms? Really? So much rationalizing when it's so much easier to enjoy the harmless acts of nature, such as snow.

If you enjoy watching it, then there's plenty of old videos to watch. Why do you want to see new hurricanes hitting land and causing more damage?

With only a T, this is now the driest start to September at Chicago since 1999. Will tack on another day or two of no measurable precip. Hopefully the winter won't be like 1999-00 lol

You want to see people's lives ruined?

How can people root for hurricanes to strike land and all the damage and suffering that comes with that? As far as I'm concerned, this has been a blessing of a hurricane season so far. Count up the ACE but keep the threats away from the US and other land for that matter.

The sample size of 3rd year Ninas is small, but it has happened a few times since 1950. Those Decembers weren't warm in our region and a couple were very cold (1985, 2000). If we still manage to pull off a torch December, well...

Here it is against the 1981-2010 averages.

Yeah, I think being in the totality zone has an average return rate of like 350 years. That's just average though... I think Indianapolis has gone ~800 years which will be broken in 2024. Meanwhile places in southern IL will do it twice in 7 years.

Need to shake up the crap December trend. Definitely on my wish list.

It felt like half of humanity converged on the area around southern IL lol. I agree about feeling it in your soul. I had heard people describing totality in that way and never really understood what they meant. I had this weird zen like feeling even a while after.

I remember some crazy stories from the last total eclipse in 2017... like some hotels raised their rates to several hundred dollars a night or even higher as the date approached. For the 2017 eclipse, I booked a room at a place outside of St. Louis for the night before because I didn't want to risk getting in a traffic jam and arriving late on eclipse day. The real problem was coming back home after it was over. Took me like 15 hours from southern Illinois. Tried county roads, state roads, interstate, didn't matter... everything was near standstill for a long time. I'm definitely gonna try to do things differently in 2024... either gonna bail the minute that totality is over or just come home the next day.

As has been mentioned, we look to have a back to back to back Nina for the first time since 2000-01. How long this hangs on as a Nina is doubtful though as there are some indications it may fade rather early. I don't know if anybody has an outlook out yet (other than the Farmers Almanac lol) but post them here, or just any winter thoughts in general.

ORD is going to make it through the first week of September with no measurable precip (and really, it will go past that). The last time that happened was in 2015, though I'd point out that September 2021 had 0.01" through the first 16 days of the month, with that little bit of precip coming on 9/3.

We could use some rain.

We need a major threat to land to really dig into the good ol' morality debate again. Hopefully we get a chance this year.

Radar is a little interesting... can actually pick out a bit of a swirl nearby.

Stuff is barely moving. Haves and have nots.

Another day of MDW hitting 90 (91) while ORD didn't.

Indeed. Here's the breakdown of the highs and lows, relative to average.

That's a lot of yellow and orange

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