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Looks like one last chance Fri or Sat morning. We've only had one subzero day here (Jan 19 @ -2), and a few zero lows. Looks like -5 is possible Fri morning, especially if we can manage to lay down some fresh powda..

Getting some snizzle, with a bit of frizzle early this morning. Big difference between here and northern IA. Temps in the upper 20s here, whilst Mason City is at a bone chilling -3.

zzzzz. Bring on spring. Let's hope that next winter delivers a warning criteria event to more than two members outside of the lake belts.

Still early, but I'm leaning towards a D or D- winter for a grade unless we can get a quality event between now and March. Even though we have a good shot at getting close to avg if we can muster another 10", it's been a very unsatisfying winter. Almost every snow event has been at night, and there's just not been much to get excited about overall this season. Systems downtrending in the final 48hrs has been an unfortunate theme this winter. We need a good widespread winter storm with some balls to wipe away the lameness that dominated this season.

@Hoosier Looks like my call came right away lol.

Looking forward to tracking the next strung out pos later this week/weekend.

Damn, that's substantially warmer than it got here, 40 degrees. Was enough to melt off some more snow though, and now down to 1-2" or so.

23.0", which is pretty decent considering how fickle these systems have been across the sub this winter. We've had a 5" storm, and a 4" storm (Halloween) so far.

Quite a substantial difference remains between here and MLI, which is only about 25-30 miles. They hit at least 57, and we hit 46. Their 57 was only a degree from tying the old record. Upper 70s in southern MO, with even a few 80 degree readings just south of the MO border in far northern AR.

Yeah last winter was one of my all-time favorites. Everything seemed to over-perform, and of course we had the all-time record cold. Had a 6 week down period, but other than that it was fantastic. The winter before that we had that awesome late March event that dumped over 10" here, while areas a county to the north got squat. Unless the snow completely shuts off we should end up close to average this winter. The only frustrating thing about this winter is the lack of daytime snows, but that's just being a bit picky. Also, no warning criteria events, but it's hard to complain about that when folks off to the east are having a horrific winter.

It's only a matter of time until you get dumped on while we sit under an empty cirrostratus canopy lol.

Not too far away at MLI they're up to 51 already, but only 43 here. Still the warmest it's been in quite awhile and should continue to denature our snow pack. Very nice to see the sun after days upon days of gloom and frizzle.

I love GFS.

GFS and the Euro continue to indicate some sort of threat around the 4-5th. About the only thing to watch so hopefully the threat continues as we get closer.

Ground zero @ 384hrs out on the op GFS. What can go wrong?

Euro and GFS both showing a big dump of cold air around the 4th-5th of Feb. Hopefully something of quality can develop on the leading edge of that. Until then, zzzzz.

Lock it in.

I'm surprised at the relative lack of big lake snows there. Ever since you moved from LAF back to where you are now I can't remember you having a major lake event there. Maybe I just forgot lol. I always figured anywhere from the IN/IL border and points east got blasted all the time during the winter. Guess it isn't as common as I thought.

Looking pretty quiet the next 7-10 days.

Euro throwing you a bone with a nice snowstorm. GFS says It's an ALEK special.

I think I remember seeing a post from him awhile back saying he was going somewhere tropical on vacation.

There's gonna be a lot of frozen dog turds to kick around.

This feels like an Arkansas winter. Hopefully that means we'll get a late Jan/February tornado outbreak to top it off.

Excellent, that would be just what we all need lol.