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MW/GL/OV February 2011 discussion part 2


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What's your snow depth down to?

Sitting at 49F here...dropped back to 45F a bit earlier, but it has come up since then.

We have about 4 inches left. There's some bare spots though where the wind drifted the snow away, but there's also some 1-2' drifts (slush piles). There's still 5-7' mountains of snow around that have been plowed from parking lots, etc. Those will be around till May lol.

We actually dropped to 39 a short while ago, and have quickly rebounded back to 42. There's probably a very shallow inversion that's being mixed out from time to time. I think by morning we'll mix it completely away as stronger southerly winds move in. Wouldn't be surprised to see us up near 50 by daybreak.

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Wow, we've sprung back up to 45 now. That's a 6 degree rise in less than a half hour. The inversion is definitely shallow, and playing tricks on the thermometers here at ground level.

Here's sort of an interesting comparison to show how much snow we've lost since the blizzard. Not an exact point of reference, but pretty close. First pic is Feb 2, the second is Feb 13, and the last is just a bit ago.


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We have about 4 inches left. There's some bare spots though where the wind drifted the snow away, but there's also some 1-2' drifts (slush piles). There's still 5-7' mountains of snow around that have been plowed from parking lots, etc. Those will be around till May lol.

We actually dropped to 39 a short while ago, and have quickly rebounded back to 42. There's probably a very shallow inversion that's being mixed out from time to time. I think by morning we'll mix it completely away as stronger southerly winds move in. Wouldn't be surprised to see us up near 50 by daybreak.

Little bit more here, piles in the middle of thr cul-de-sac are still about 6-9ft high. ...75F with snow piles sounds fine.

Still sitting on 6" here, with a core water equiv of 1.60"

Back up to 50F here now.

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gotta like DVNs comments about the rest of the pattern for February, active with the baroclinic zone in the neighborhood.

feeding the weenies like you said lol

SO LOOK FOR THE ACTIVE PATTERN TO CONTINUE WITH A STRONG BAROCLINIC ZONE RIGHT

ACROSS THE DVN CWA WITH POTENTIAL FOR SEVERAL RAIN AND/OR SNOW

EVENTS THE REMAINDER OF THIS MONTH.

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lol, it's actually so much worse than that pic. Standing water everywhere, mud, turds, plastic bags with turds, etc. We really could use a good hard rain and then some sunny dry weather.

Good rain would probably be the best thing for us.. Get out and clean stuff up the next day or so and let it pour and wash all the grime away and see what March brings. If nothing, o well, we had a monster storm and a decent run of small events here. Blows last yr away IMBY and I feel pretty good about next winter :weenie:

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big difference from the 0z run.

It's fantasy land, but 6z ended up blowing up a decent system by the time that action pushes this way. Given the persistent western trough and open gulf, i think that If we can maintain some good spacing between events, this one has a shot at being a major system down the road.

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The sun is trying its hardest to burn through the altostratus (low clouds failed to develop yet again), but the altostratus isn't going down without a fight. We've had several significant but brief breaks in the overcast late this morning, but we flip back to BKN-OVC altostratus fairly quickly.

This looks to be the warmest day of the season too, we're already at 50*F as of 11 AM despite hte generally overcast conditions.

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It's fantasy land, but 6z ended up blowing up a decent system by the time that action pushes this way. Given the persistent western trough and open gulf, i think that If we can maintain some good spacing between events, this one has a shot at being a major system down the road.

Models have been showing a system in that time frame for awhile now.. Most of the tracks have been for rain here with a couple snow weenie runs thrown in farther south.. John dee has had the second fantasy land one being the farther north storm while the one coming up was for us down her potentially and even had you in the cone yesterday. Something 2 watch and that's all we can ask for.

Gone fishing.. Gonna be miserable with the wind and whitecaps on the ice.. wasted a good suntanning day on the ice yesterday but nobody to go with.

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Well Detroit has officially seen its highest temp of the season thus far.

We're at 53*F as of 12 PM, which is so far the high for today. It has surpassed the previous highest temperature of the season on New Years Eve which was 52*F.

The sun is still duking it out with the altostratus.

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