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April 2011 general discussion/obs thread


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summer of 09 repeat on deck? Edit: or was that 08, whatever that summer of perpetual april was.

Yup 09. My weenie guess for this summer is something a lot closer to 2009 than the summer of 2010.

I'm hoping for something in between the 2 or basically AVG to slightly above.

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Yup 09. My weenie guess for this summer is something a lot closer to 2009 than the summer of 2010.

Lets hope not!! Although here we go again..Temps Stuck in upper 30s and rain..WTF where is April. Gona be funny when NWS Met Offices start putting out "cool spring to persist" discos. When that happens it will be the icing on the cake!

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Lets hope not!! Although here we go again..Temps Stuck in upper 30s and rain..WTF where is April. Gona be funny when NWS Met Offices start putting out "cool spring to persist" discos. When that happens it will be the icing on the cake!

I hope not either.. I think almost every weekend that summer was fail. Last yr was way to fooking swampy ass for my liking.. Give me 80's and dp's in the upper 40's all summer and I'd be happy. If I lived on a lake give me last summer every summer and I wouldn't care. Nothing like a good skinny dip at midnight with the temp 84/70

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Harry,

When looking at the AO outlook, how realiable is it say 2 weeks out as it showed by May the majority of the ensembles show it going negative? I ask this because of planting concerns, I suspect until that cold pool drains out that the first half of May the possibility of hard freezes all the way to I-70 are possible. Do you think we are safe or is the threat of feezes looming for May? My gut tells me we see a freeze and a grass sticking snow as far south as I-80...just ahunch but the way things are going this spring it wouldn't surprise me.

Harry, one other thing, your pretty good at the long range stuff and I have already declared a spring cancel, do you think this summer is shot? Thanks for reading!

Like anything modeled i would not get too concerned yet. Granted the thing has been way on the +side for a slew of month's now. As for the threat of freezing temps? I could see that happening into early/mid May. Been a while since we saw a accumulating snow in May in these parts anyways. Not saying it will happen but this year does offer the best shot at that then we have seen in a number of years thanks to what i mentioned earlier and thus see Canada snow cover and the AO/Cold supply to the north.

As for Summer i would not say it is shot but i do think the chances of a repeat of what we had last summer are very slim.

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La Crosse's normal high temp is up to 61 degrees and at the NWS office they pounded out 8.3" Green Bay avg. high is 56 and pounded out 9.9" They are now up to 92.4'! They have taken advantage of all mke's 30's and rain events.

Avg high temp is 55 here and won't see 61 until May 3rd. Good ole LM can be your worst enemy or best friend.

Yes, and there have probably been a half dozen of those.

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Harry and Sparty,

Thanks for chimming in with some input, the GRR disco was a great read, and it would not surprise me if we go from persistent chilly and wet to bam summer. Skilling has it 'possibly" torching on Tue with an 80 degree high....could be a wicked severe setup next week closer to us this time around. Bring it on, last nights squall line with multiple state bow echoes was wicked cool to watch.

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The euro, after showing promise in the 7-10 day period a few days ago, has gotten worse with each run since then. The latest 12z has essentially eliminated any significant warmup(above normal temps) for the next 10+ days for the upper midwest. With this pattern we may not see 70 degrees again until well into May. I can't stand long stretches of cool/cold weather in mid to late spring.

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Had a solid 2 hrs of heavy rain with thunder and some small hail last night, which was really impressive with temps in the mid 30s, quite a lot of elevated instability snuck in north of the warm front. The med range looks wet, but it appears will be staying north of the warm front for those events as well :thumbsdown:

Ya I was quite impressed with the storms yesterday being it was 37/33 at my house, the lightning was something you would see a good summer storm.

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Well decided painfully to read JB's ass and he said ready set freezing cold May on tap northern plains and especially the northeast....here is the link.

http://www.weatherbell.com/jb/?p=1241

Playing the 2008 card but with a little less severe weather. The painfully sh*tty spring continues....Also thinks >50% chance of la nina next year as well. Time to start thinking about moving SW seriously.

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Well decided painfully to read JB's ass and he said ready set freezing cold May on tap northern plains and especially the northeast....here is the link.

http://www.weatherbell.com/jb/?p=1241

Playing the 2008 card but with a little less severe weather. The painfully sh*tty spring continues....Also thinks >50% chance of la nina next year as well. Time to start thinking about moving SW seriously.

The cool May of 2008 wasn't all that bad. Funny because the following 2008 Summer was a nice one around my neck of the woods.

FWIW JB is a douche bag!

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The cool May of 2008 wasn't all that bad. Funny because the following 2008 Summer was a nice one around my neck of the woods.

FWIW JB is a douche bag!

Yeah 2008 summer was fairly warm, not a ton of 90 plus degree days around ORD but it was warm and at time pretty humid. JB does get on my nerves although he can connect the dots pretty good on the long range stuff although he isn't always spot on. Douchebag for sure, but I'll listen to him before I listen to the ass Margusity and his big daddy hombre Pastelok.

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LMFAO! That's one demented sun they have there.

Was cold and cloudy all day here. Many of the trees have very small leaves, but they haven't grown at all in several days.

Funny things happen to the mind as the midnight shift winds down.

Case in point, here is part of the winter weather advisory I continued yesterday morning.

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME

402 AM EDT WED APR 20 2011

...A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION EXPECTED ACROSS FAR NORTHERN NEW

HAMPSHIRE AND THE WESTERN MAINE MOUNTAINS TODAY...

.A WARM FRONT WILL STRUGGLE NORTH TODAY...STALLING JUST SOUTH OF

THE AREA. THIS WILL KEEP COLDER AIR ACROSS THE

INTERIOR...ESPECIALLY EXTREME NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN

MAINE. PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN AS SNOW...CHANGING TO A MIX WITH

SLEEP AND PATCHY FREEZING RAIN BY THIS AFTERNOON. PARTS OF WESTERN

MAINE...ESPECIALLY SOMERSET COUNTY...MAY REMAIN SNOW FOR MOST OF

THE DAY. AN OCCLUDED FROM WILL THEN CROSS THE FORECAST AREA

TONIGHT...BRINGING AN END TO THE BULK OF THE ACCUMULATING PRECIPITATION.

I mean the 'p' is nowhere near the 't' on the keyboard, but at least we know what was on my mind at the time. :arrowhead:

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LMFAO! That's one demented sun they have there.

Was cold and cloudy all day here. Many of the trees have very small leaves, but they haven't grown at all in several days.

Geesh, looks like they all took a hit of acid and said hey f*ckers let's draw a sun and jazzz the maps up...creepy.

Skilling last night said that following such cloudy Aprils around here that summers following tneded to be slightly cooler, less 90's but also less wet.

Summer 2008 around ORD June was cool and wet, July turned hot, especially the first 15 days of the month averging 8-15 degrees above normal and August trended normal...the following fall also was seasonal with a rapid cooldown in Octobers closing 2 weeks. We shall see.

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Been a good week or two since I have seen the sun. Storm after storm for another week or so then it looks like these northern stream low pressures migrate north and the warmth begins as the southern stream becomes dominant. Will probably still rain but atleast it will be warmer.

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PRELIMINARY EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION

NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER CAMP SPRINGS MD

807 AM EDT THU APR 21 2011

VALID 12Z MON APR 25 2011 - 12Z THU APR 28 2011

GOOD EARLY ON MODEL AGREEMENT THROUGH DAY 5 TUES WITH HPC PROGS

USING A MIX OF 00Z ECMWF AND ENS MEANS OF GFS AND ECMWF. BY DAY 5

THE AMPLIFYING PLAINS TROF IS KICKED OUT FASTER BY THE 00Z ECMWF

THAN OTHER MODELS AND ENSEMBLES. 4 AND 8 MEMBER LAGGED AVERAGES

INDICATE THAT THIS IS TOO FAST WITH GOOD ENSEMBLE AGREEMENT AND A

LAGGED AVERAGE OF BOTH GFS AND ECMWF SHOWING GOOD AGREEMENT WITH

ENSMEBLES. LARGE MODEL DIFFERNECES LATE DAY 7 AND DAY 8 THU/FRI

BETWEEN OPERATIONAL RUNS OF GFS AND ECMWF BUT EXCELLENT ENSEMBLE

AGREEMENT OF THESE MODELS. DAYS 6 AND 7 WED/THU USED ECMWF ENS

MEANS AS A BASE.

HEAVY/EXCESSIVE RAIN POTENTIAL CONTINUES ALONG THE QUASISTATIONARY

FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS NRN TX/ERN OK THRU MO AND UP ALONG THE NRN

SIDE OF THE OH RIVER VALLEY WHERE 3-5 INCH 48 HR RAIN TOTALS

LOCALLY HEAVIER CAN BE EXPECTED THRU DAY 5 TUESDAY. THIS BOUNDARY

WILL MOVE NORTH AS WARM FRONT INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION AND

NORTHEAST BUT ITS ANCHORED END NEAR THE SFC LOW WILL CONTINUE TO

THREATEN MO/AR AND IL WITH ADITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WITH 5 DAY TOTALS

IN THE MEDIUM RANGE PERIOD IN THE 6-9 INCH RANGE ACROSS NERN OK/MO

AND INTO IL. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT SPRING AGRICULTURAL

PREPARATIONS IN THIS AREA. THS PAC NORTHWEST COAST REMAINS WET

WITH MID LEVEL ZONAL FLOW AND A SERIES OF MINOR PACIFIC SYSTEMS

BRINGING IN MAINLY COASTAL RANGE RAINFALL. WEST ATLC/EAST COAST

MID LEVEL RIDGING AND WARM H850 TEMPS WILL BRING WIDESPREAD 80

DEGREE TEMPERATURES TO THE EASTERN SEABOARD THRU THE FORECAST

PERIOD WITH WARM TEMPERATURES ALSO PUNCHING NWD INTO THE ERN GREAT

LAKES REGION TUES/WED.

ROSENSTEIN

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