cyclone77

The boxing day rainer has bumped closer and will now be a Christmas rainer. Would be pretty sweet if we could have mustered up some thunder, but it looks like a sprinkly/very light rain affair.

Nice overachiever early this morning here, picked up a quick inch or so before daybreak.

Precip has moved back in and now it's in the form of rain.

Had a brief but very nice burst of heavy snow around 3pm. Only lasted a few minutes, but it looked legit for a bit, and easily best snow intensity of season so far. Picked up a few tenths pretty quickly. Thermal ridge moving in, 32 here, but just southwest in MLI they are up to 38. 40s just south.

jinx

Is this the latest we've gone without a single event thread?

May get a tenth or two tomorrow on the extreme southwest edge. Will be top 5 event so far.

Models pretty consistent with a nice, widespread rainer on boxing day, or the day after. May need a thread soon.

No snow overnight but did pick up a minor glaze from some light freezing rain. Seasonal snow total remains at 0.7".

Looks like some flurries or very light snow here tomorrow night, and then another WI to MI special for Friday. Hopefully we'll clear the 1" seasonal snowfall threshold by New Years.

Just in time for my birthday again.

Lack of snow/futility starting to show up in the data now. Dubuque only at 0.6" for the season, and is now over 7 inches below average to date. DVN at 0.8", no official average there yet but probably down 5.5-6 inches to date.

Has anyone posted the Farmers Almanac outlook yet?

Bone dry here as the precip has stalled about 5 miles to the west. Should remain dry here for another few hours while the QC gets hammered with ice. Still looks like 1/3" or so of mostly plain rain this afternoon.

DVN with an ice storm warning for Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas tomorrow. Isolated area there will get precip early enough before it warms above freezing, and may amount to some decent glazing. Looks like about 1/3" of 34 degree rain for this area tomorrow.