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GL/MW/OV December 2010 disco thread

snowstormcanuck

By snowstormcanuck,
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Chicago WX

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IND put out a Special Weather Statement this morning about the cold temps and flurries, but the first sentence in the last paragraph struck me as quite funny. It sounds like something my Mom would have said to me...when I was 8. laugh.gif

MAKE SURE TO DRESS WARM ON YOUR WAY TO WORK OR OTHER DESTINATIONS

TODAY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO SLICK SPOTS...DRIVE CAREFULLY

AND ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS.

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LizardMafia

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IND put out a Special Weather Statement this morning about the cold temps and flurries, but the first sentence in the last paragraph struck me as quite funny. It sounds like something my Mom would have said to me...when I was 8. laugh.gif

MAKE SURE TO DRESS WARM ON YOUR WAY TO WORK OR OTHER DESTINATIONS TODAY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO SLICK SPOTS...DRIVE CAREFULLY AND ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS.

:lmao:

Sounds like my mom..

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huronsquall

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Still getting pounded in London. Best guess is 40 cms on the ground. The local forecast from Env. Canada is for 50 cms+ still on the way thru Tuesday (the top end would be up to 100cms). Hard to believe that will happen tho' as that would be a record (even bettering the famous Dec' 77 snowblitz of around 100 cms in 1 storm).

Won't be working late today......

Congrats London snowsquall. Glad to hear you are getting it good. I am between squalls this time around. Maybe 1" total today. Oh so close to the big squall- but yet so far away. Hopefully Lake Huron spreads the wealth this year.

The coming days all sound so promising.

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Congrats London snowsquall. Glad to hear you are getting it good. I am between squalls this time around. Maybe 1" total today. Oh so close to the big squall- but yet so far away. Hopefully Lake Huron spreads the wealth this year.

The coming days all sound so promising.

Lake effect is going to go crazy long range if the Euro verifies.

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Even though we quickly dropped to 6 under clear skies yesterday evening, clouds rolled in and temps rose back above 10. The low this morning was only 7. If we would have cleared out we had a good shot at going below zero.

Had flurries off and on all afternoon. Funny, a few days ago we were straining our eyes looking for snowflakes, and now even the most pathetic cloud that rolls overhead easily drops flurries.

Lost another inch of the snowpack today due to more settling/sublimation. Down to 6".

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Swirling squalls dropped 0.1" this morning, though after brutal chilling 30-40 mph winds once again all day, just light skiffs of snow drifted against curbs. Been wintry, below normal temps, continuous flakes, but have yet to see more than a light dusting on the ground at one time. Keeping my fingers crossed for Thurs night to FINALLY give us a 1"+ snow, then lets see what the Sunday storm does.

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snowstormcanuck

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Just under an inch by the looks of it. The squalls have shifted south of here now.:snowman:

It might not be the 3 feet of snow that London has received, but I'll take anything at this point!

Seems like every other year London gets one of these monster LES events. I'm seriously considering looking for work there once I'm done school.

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Seems like every other year London gets one of these monster LES events. I'm seriously considering looking for work there once I'm done school.

:arrowhead:

I was thinking about this today, too. London has everything... work, entertainment, clean streets, intense LES... and it's not just the LES, it's also the severe weather. Year after year London gets pounded with supercells, training storm lines, etc. Metro London has so much to offer. I'm growing tired of KW's lack of weather.

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snowstormcanuck

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:arrowhead:

I was thinking about this today, too. London has everything... work, entertainment, clean streets, intense LES... and it's not just the LES, it's also the severe weather. Year after year London gets pounded with supercells, training storm lines, etc. Metro London has so much to offer. I'm growing tired of KW's lack of weather.

Well, you also get some decent LES, but they seem to be more of the light and frequent variety, rather than the big dumping variety. And you get some decent lake breeze induced severe wx too. Try living in Toronto. We get the best of nothing.

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I agree that this area of the country does get the intense lake effect (although not me this time) - but when a big storm does come this way - it usually hits more east of here than not. The bigger storms usually go the K/W - Toronto - Hamilton route (especially with more easterly winds for lake enhancement in those storms). We usually wait for the lake effect to hit when the storm departs.

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I agree that this area of the country does get the intense lake effect (although not me this time) - but when a big storm does come this way - it usually hits more east of here than not. The bigger storms usually go the K/W - Toronto - Hamilton route (especially with more easterly winds for lake enhancement in those storms). We usually wait for the lake effect to hit when the storm departs.

Maybe during the heart of winter when the stormtrack is shifted SE to the max, but I can recall a number of synoptic storms that did their damage mostly NW of a London to Barrie to Ottawa line. December 11-12, 2000 pops to the top of my head. We did OK here, 20cm with some FZRA, but areas like Wiarton and Peterborough were 35-50cm with huge drifts.

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Well, you also get some decent LES, but they seem to be more of the light and frequent variety, rather than the big dumping variety. And you get some decent lake breeze induced severe wx too. Try living in Toronto. We get the best of nothing.

There are some decent LES days around here once in a while... and by once in a while I mean every couple of years. I can recall a couple events, maybe once, where we had a prolonged period of LES for about three hours. Other than that, the most LES we experience seems to occur mid-morning and then again the mid-evening when the squalls are shifting north or south and make a brief pass over the area. Well, maybe I just don't feel very generous tonight about the idea of LES. I haven't really paid much attention to winter until recently. Rarely ever had snow days growing up, and I don't recall any monstrous snowstorms aside from 2000 and the 08-09 winter. I have a special weather summaries going all the way back to 2004 from WFO Toronto, and a lot of it goes like..

From any given snowstorm

Grey-Bruce areas- 30cm+

Woodstock- 22cm

Hamilton 18cm

KW- 7cm

We get shafted by winter usually, but yeah you're right about the lake breeze convergent thunderstorms, though much of them keep their distance from Waterloo... affecting usually Cambridge or Elmira. I tend to be on the very edges of them, year after year, and have always wondered why that is...

Anyway, back on topic, man would it be awesome to live in the traditional snowbelt! :lol:

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SNOWFALL REPORTS AS OF 6 PM TODAY AND FALLEN SINCE SATURDAY NIGHT.
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LOCATION                    SNOWFALL AMOUNTS (CM SNOW)

LONDON                      45-55
LONDON AIPORT               53
SOUTHEAST OF LONDON         65-70
LUCAN (NORTHWEST OF LONDON) 65-82
DORCHESTER (EAST OF LONDON) 42
GODERICH                    15-20
MOUNT FOREST                10
LAKELET (NEAR CLIFFORD)     18
PAISLEY (NE OF KINCARDINE)  5-10
NIAGARA                     14
TORONTO DOWNTOWN            2-4
TORONTO NORTH               11
NEWMARKET                   30
MAPLE                       15-20
KING CITY                   20
SCHOMBERG                   33     AS OF 8 AM
BEETON (SOUTH OF ALLISTON)  73
THORNBURY                   40
BARRIE                      10-15

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michsnowfreak

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Was at a friends in Clawson, about 0.5-0.75" on the grass there, but nothing really fell at night while I was there. By DTW a good squall hit (0.3" on the day) and there were decent drifts against curbs and a slight icy glaze on the street. At home, just a trace new, the lightest dusting (not 0.1"). Its funny, the new snow from this evenings squalls varied literally every quarter mile or so. Thats lake effect lol.

So far, it has snowed every day in December, as said about 90% of the time. ALL lake effect. DTW is at 0.7" total, mby 0.4" total.

Clipper still on target for Thurs night. Really getting interested in this weeks coming events.

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Maybe during the heart of winter when the stormtrack is shifted SE to the max, but I can recall a number of synoptic storms that did their damage mostly NW of a London to Barrie to Ottawa line. December 11-12, 2000 pops to the top of my head. We did OK here, 20cm with some FZRA, but areas like Wiarton and Peterborough were 35-50cm with huge drifts.

Anyway, back on topic, man would it be awesome to live in the traditional snowbelt! :lol:

Maybe I just remember the storms that get away. I do remember 2000 as a bumper year for snow though here in Mitchell. The westnorthwest flow pounded us here. That was the year I moved to Mitchell and the shoveling never stopped.

And it is awesome to live in the snowbelt. Let's hope we all share in the snow to make up for last year.

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