dendrite

It’s Halloween so who really cares. We’re just getting into graupel shower season.

35.6° for the min this morning…may go the next week without going below freezing.

Ice generally needs a below freezing nucleus to form on so when that ice free day comes, we’ll have to refreeze the arctic from the outside-in which I would think would really slow refreeze up. As long as we have some slabs floating mid-ocean we can refreeze around those areas. The longer it’s open the more we’ll keep the moisture and heat flux going up there which will really hurt the source region for early winter.

Those are nice trees. I love large black walnuts or hickories. Most hickories are really slow growers at first so when you plant one you’re basically planting it for future generations. I have some butternuts I started from seed years ago, but like most native trees today, they develop diseases after maturity and begin to decline rapidly.

Yeah I don’t think you technically go below freezing at 2m on the euro or gfs. You’ll sneak one in I bet within 2 weeks though.

I wonder how warm we can get the arctic ocean in the summer once it finally goes ice free.

I’m hoping I’ve already seen my coldest temp of the winter.

Well I still need a lot of rain so I will take it by any means possible. Euro and goofus deliver an inch here late week in different ways. It’s time to start covering the picnic tables.

Whimper

This is the new limit.

1104hr looks good

Still dropping…wth 35.8°

Those are heights too…not thicknesses. Usually the 540 thickness line approximates to heights around 552, but obviously in overrunning/SWFE situations we can even go higher than that and get snow.

6z goofus tries to start as catpaws up here next week.

Min 37.3° Right there with KDIT