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The August 10th derecho is the event of the year here, and is the most impressive single weather event I've ever personally experienced while at home. 60-80+mph winds that lasted over an hour, and no power for 92 hours. Might have been the only time I actually felt afraid of the weather while being at home, mostly because of not knowing exactly how much worse it could get. Reports upstream were pretty scary. We got off pretty easy compared to places along the main swath like Cedar Rapids, and across the river in Clinton. Hawkeye and others definitely had it WAY worse than what we got. Still can't believe how long those high winds lasted. What will probably always stick with me about this event is how no matter where you went you were always coming across huge trees down/uprooted now and again. In most cases around here after a severe event while driving around you'll come across a swath of 1-3 miles wide of trees down, or uprooted. With this event it was wherever you went, and in some places whole groves of trees were destroyed/uprooted.

February will be rockin'

Was in the IL QC earlier this evening. There's still snow on the ground leftover from last Saturday's snow even after a few days in the 40s. There's actually more snow leftover on the ground there than we've had all season to date here.

As RC and many others have pointed out in the mid-range thread there's growing potential for something a little more substantial Wed night into Thursday (Christmas Eve). May be a bit of a thread-the-needle event depending on how it phases, but hopefully a lucky swath could pick up some fresh snow just in time for Christmas.

Posted in Dec thread, but there's a report of 5.5" in one hour at BGM.

New Euro continues to look bleak for the western half of the sub through late Dec. Luckily March and April will make up for the no-show December per usual lol.

Not in this sub, but some extreme rippage going on right now out east. One report near Binghamton NY had 4.5" in the past hour, and another had 5.5". Extremely impressive especially for it coming from system snow and not LES.

I believe I saw a flurry whiz by walking out to my vehicle after work.

Have flurries in the point tomorrow and tomorrow night. Mood flakes to at least make it look a little more like winter at least.

Wake me up in January.

Current snow cover. Illustrates the 3-5" that fell just south of the QC sat, and nada here. Cruel, cruel storm system lol.

Fresh snow cover allowed Monticello IA to get way down to 3 above early this morning. Dubuque got down to 7.

That was at work but I got to watch all of it fall which was great.

A small area of light snow came through earlier this evening and brought our first accumulation for the day with 0.3". Enough to bump us over the 1" mark for the season.

Yeah today was fantastic. MLI set a new record high of 62 today beating the old one of 60. Hit 59 here. Took the opportunity to plant one more tree (willow oak).

MLI and ORD are tied at 0.7". All of that 0.7" at MLI fell in Oct, and all of the 0.7" at ORD fell in Nov. Kind of interesting/depressing lol.

Insert it's happening gif. A very thread the needle one verbatim but at least it's showing something that may be worth tracking.

Had a few flurries dancing under the street lights late last evening. Top 5 event of season so far.

You can tell the good folks out at ol' DVN are bored out of their minds. They've posted 3 updates on their fb page this evening regarding the chance for a brief burst of flurries after midnight tonight lol.

12z Euro says MSP may get over the 20" hump by next weekend. For the rest of us...

Nice rainer for many of us next weekend on this morning's Euro.

Days start getting longer in 18 days.