mnweather Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 just had a friend of mine have an ice shelter fall through on a medium-sized lake. i'm just staying off them in general until we can get a little more cold weather. maybe a coating of snow here tonight; otherwise, new 0z NAM says maybe a decent snowfall on sunday. gfs says snow sunday as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 12z NAM and GFS not so good for sat/sun but better for tonight. i'd rather take it this weekend, as saturday's torch will melt a lot of whatever's on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 12z NAM and GFS not so good for sat/sun but better for tonight. i'd rather take it this weekend, as saturday's torch will melt a lot of whatever's on the ground. Yeah I agree. Tonight looks like a nice little event as that trop undulation ejects through the plains. There may be some nice banding with that upper feature along the jet axis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Torch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 Torch: Become accustomed to it with this crappy winter. We are nearing a record today at LBF. Currently 65...record is 66. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Become accustomed to it with this crappy winter. We are nearing a record today at LBF. Currently 65...record is 66. You might hit mid 70s if the ECM verified, much warmer at 850mb than today with the AK vortex keeping any cold air out of the CONUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 You might hit mid 70s if the ECM verified, much warmer at 850mb than today with the AK vortex keeping any cold air out of the CONUS. Probably not that bad...guidance suggesting deep high cloud cover. Even then, hard to fully mix through the inversion in the dead of winter with the short and weak diurnal cycle without a good downslope wind component (like today). We won't mix through fully to those 16-17 degree C 850s. It will still be warm though...probably well into the mid 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 LOL we are getting a virga/dust storm with gusts to 40. We are getting convective cells popping in the PV across western NE. What month is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormJr Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 12z NAM and GFS not so good for sat/sun but better for tonight. i'd rather take it this weekend, as saturday's torch will melt a lot of whatever's on the ground. talking about tonights system... the 18z comes in and says, NO SOUP FOR YOU. Ugh. .42" on the 12z NAM, nothing (as in 0.00") on the 18z NAM. GFS not very impressive either. ECMWF weak and SW with it. Hope the trend is wrong...We just can't catch a break around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Nice line of strong/severe wind producing storms associated with the clipper in KS/NE... 0417 PM TSTM WND GST NORTON 39.84N 99.89W 12/29/2011 M69 MPH NORTON KS AWOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2Otown_WX Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Not sure if this is the right thread for this but I found it interesting that MSP is coming off three exceptionally warm months in a row. The 9th warmest October and November on record as well as the 13th warmest December. It will be interesting to see if things flip around for January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msp Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Not sure if this is the right thread for this but I found it interesting that MSP is coming off three exceptionally warm months in a row. The 9th warmest October and November on record as well as the 13th warmest December. It will be interesting to see if things flip around for January. yep, real warm and dry. this coming week certainly will be on par with the warm winter. even the snow we got yesterday partially melted last night and lots of grass is visible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 lol we broke the record high for today before reaching 12 pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSchwake28 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 lol we broke the record high for today before reaching 12 pm Definitely impressive considering there's actually snow cover around now. Couldn't believe to see nearly 40 degrees at 8am this morning. This is my first winter up here but I'd imagine that's a very rare occurrence in these parts for January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Definitely impressive considering there's actually snow cover around now. Couldn't believe to see nearly 40 degrees at 8am this morning. This is my first winter up here but I'd imagine that's a very rare occurrence in these parts for January. Ya this is my third winter up here so i'm not exactly a veteran up here but this is crazy. Interesting to see that the airport dropped 4 degrees in the past hour while the reading at the air force base has gone up a degree and is now 8 degrees warmer than the airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Even more impressive is that Jamestown is now 13 degrees above the daily record and now 4 degrees above any record high temperature ever recorded in January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prinsburg_wx Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Unreal here for Jan 5th, temp at 61 right now. People playing golf and some are cruising by on motorcycles....hoping the 12z ggem is close for hrs 144 - 180 next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSchwake28 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Ya this is my third winter up here so i'm not exactly a veteran up here but this is crazy. Interesting to see that the airport dropped 4 degrees in the past hour while the reading at the air force base has gone up a degree and is now 8 degrees warmer than the airport Yea I noticed that as well, I'm assuming it's because we lost that westerly component to the wind while just a couple miles west they're still holding onto that downsloping wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 Yeah fook this crap. We just broke our record today too lol 67....old record was 66. Change is coming though. Great to see the first real arctic front of the winter. Big changes in the Pacific...although the PV may remain intact to some degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 59F here and we broke the record high for today (54F set back in 1956). This is just insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Rapid City up to 70. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 Incredible! 850 Temp hit 20 degree C this morning at Rapid City. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 Rapid City up to 70. Take a look at that 12Z sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iastfan112 Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 61 and I've spent much of the day just lounging outside. Just ridiculous, I'll say this though, if its not going to snow temps in the 50's and 60's is the way to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 Unofficial map of records which have fallen as of 19Z today. http://coolwx.com/record/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 61 and I've spent much of the day just lounging outside. Just ridiculous, I'll say this though, if its not going to snow temps in the 50's and 60's is the way to go! Sadly...this is true. Still it doesn't feel right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnweather Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 36 here with a cool lake breeze off Superior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prinsburg_wx Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 203 PM CST THU JAN 5 2012 SDZ006-060100- BROWN- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ABERDEEN 203 PM CST THU JAN 5 2012 ...ALL-TIME JANUARY RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT ABERDEEN SD... AT 143 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON...A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 61 DEGREES WAS SET AT ABERDEEN SD. THIS BREAKS THE DAILY RECORD OF 46 SET IN 1935. THIS IS ALSO THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN JANUARY IN ABERDEEN SD. RECORDS IN ABERDEEN DATE BACK TO 1893. TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY CLIMB A FEW MORE DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Absolutely amazing From MPX Information from the Minnesota State Climatology Office, which puts this warm spell into perspective:"There has never been a 60 degree temperature recorded during the first week of January in Minnesota's modern climate record. The warmest temperature ever recorded in Minnesota during the first week of January is 59 degrees, occurring on January 7, 2003 in Amboy, MN. The warmest temperature ever recorded in Minnesota on January 5 is 57 degrees, recorded at Crookston in 1902. Reaching 60 degrees ANY time ANYWHERE in January is quite rare, occurring in only 10 years of the 120 year modern record. The all-time record high temperature for any day in January is 69 degrees, occurring January 24, 1981 in Montevideo." Current temp in Marshall, MN: 63° Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 Absolutely amazing From MPX Current temp in Marshall, MN: 63° That is indeed incredible. Do you have a link to that news article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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