Thundersnow12 Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 I hear ya and you will make it. Next Skilling is not a bad gig either tho. Like I said you can go anywhere you want and you're already on the in for your dream to come true. No doubt you would have some great weenie forecast discussion reads yr around. Joey can be the next, Skilling, he doesn't have your looks, lol. Chi storm and T-snow both at LOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowMeHunter Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Chi storm and T-snow both at LOT But we need a good replacement for, skilling. I think your passion, looks, and coming across as a natural behind the camera on make you a good fit for WGN. Joey is a perfect dry for AFD's and with some practice could spice up the LOT afd's in time with izzi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Got asked to give our talk at NIU, and guess what? We are giving it on Feb 2nd lol So we are going to add more things to it. Great job I'll try to make it out to NIU...I was just there in early December for the Applied Climatology class presentations on the work they did to partner with various companies on weather data. The students did some really good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kab2791 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Awesome talk, finally got around to seeing it. Look forward to any future talks you may have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I watched your presentation, Thundersnow! Nicely done! Lots of good graphics. I bet a lot of people showed up to listen to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 A few more images I thought were kinda sweet. Just gives you a broader feel for how huge this storm was. Really stands out on the full disk view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Spent another couple hours earlier reading through some of the old GHD threads. Came across this RUC forecast map Chicago Storm posted the morning of the event. Freakin' epic!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 This storm was quite a beautiful thing to watch unfold even from afar. It would have been the largest storm of all time on the East Coast, with the dynamics and incredible forcing, combined with Atlantic moisture inflow.. A few Mets have talked about it also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajdos Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Spent another couple hours earlier reading through some of the old GHD threads. Came across this RUC forecast map Chicago Storm posted the morning of the event. Freakin' epic!! Man..although I got only 11", these maps are just beautiful! Will we ever see something like this again lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 NE Oakland County picked up 10-11" I recorded a rough estimate of 11" give or take .1". Nice Storm Overall. I think totals fell 3 to 6" short due to the Dry Slot/Sleet party from 9pm - 2AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I remember a bunch of us went out and shot vids the night of the blizzard. I think I shot 3 or 4. This one's the favorite of mine. Towards the end of the vid you can really hear the wind roaring through the trees. Man, all this blizzard talk is really making me look forward to winter now! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 LOL Lol. Little did we know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDude Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 75th and the Lake in Chicago. Think it was around 3pm. Not even the height of the storm. Have a few more videos on my channel if you navigate around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 75th and the Lake in Chicago. Think it was around 3pm. Not even the height of the storm. Have a few more videos on my channel if you navigate around. Holy crap! That looked brutal. That had to be absolutely insane later that evening. Alek took some awesome vids too that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDude Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The sound on the phone made it seem worse than it was. But what was bad was the water from the lake hitting my face, I couldn't stand out there anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 Giving the talk again next Thursday out at NIU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 This is an old thread, but it's filled with great images/video of the infamous GHD blizzard. I spent a few hours stringing together a bunch of radar images to make a 20 hour long radar animation for the DVN radar. At one point later in the loop you can see the gravity waves propagate right through DVN. Around this time is when the 66mph wind gust was recorded at the Clinton Iowa AWOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Here's an animation for Chicago. This one's about 24hrs from noon on the 1st to noon on the 2nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted December 2, 2012 Author Share Posted December 2, 2012 Here's an animation for Chicago. This one's about 24hrs from noon on the 1st to noon on the 2nd. read my mind lol was going to ask if you were going to do LOT. Could you email me that color palette? lol really shows better banding nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 read my mind lol was going to ask if you were going to do LOT. Could you email me that color palette? lol really shows better banding nicely. For anyone else who is interested in the color palette the layout is as follows... Units: DBZ Step: 5 Color: 5 233 232 255 Color: 10 173 186 255 Color: 15 63 64 246 color: 20 203 145 255 color: 25 139 14 250 color: 30 222 0 219 Color: 35 255 128 253 Color: 40 255 251 251 color: 45 68 0 5 ND: 0 0 0 RF: 64 64 64 If you want it in file form let me know, otherwise it's pretty easy to modify an existing file/code if you just input the values encoded above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Forgot about this one too....a PDS for a WSW.... not exactly an image...but AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 232 PM CST SUN JAN 30 2011 .DISCUSSION... POTENTIALLY CRIPPLING COMBINATION OF WIND... COLD AND WINTER PRECIP NOW APPEARS IMMINENT FOR MUCH OF THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. WE WILL BE ISSUING A PDS VERSION OF THE WSW BY 3 PM WHICH WILL EXPAND THE WINTER STORM WATCH INTO THE REST OF WCENTRAL/SW OK AND OUR TX ZONES... UPGRADE CENTRAL AND NCENTRAL OK TO A WINTER STORM WARNING WHERE CONFIDENCE IS HIGHEST IN THE POTENTIAL FOR MAJOR IMPACTS... AND ADD A WIND CHILL WATCH FOR NW OK WHERE COMPUTED WIND CHILLS ARE -15 OR LESS DURING MUCH OF THE PERIOD FROM LATE MON NIGHT INTO WED MORNING. PARTS OF THE AREA EVENTUALLY COULD NEED AN UPGRADE TO BLIZZARD WARNING BY TUESDAY MORNING. CONDITIONS LOOK OKAY FOR THE MOST PART BETWEEN NOW AND LATE MONDAY... ALTHOUGH PARTS OF N AND CENTRAL OK MAY HAVE TO DEAL WITH A LITTLE FREEZING DRIZZLE LATER TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. WE WILL HANDLE THAT WITH AN ADVISORY IF NEEDED. OTHERWISE THE EMPHASIS AT THIS TIME IS ON GETTING EVERYONE TO TAKE PROPER STEPS NOW BY OBTAINING NECESSARY PROVISIONS... AND NOT PLANNING ON GOING ANYWHERE FROM LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE RAPIDLY AT SOME POINT MONDAY NIGHT AS N-NE WINDS INCREASE AND COLD AIR GETS COLDER AND DEEPER. PRECIP IS FORECAST TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY 00-06Z AND ESPECIALLY 06-12Z MONDAY NIGHT. TRANSITION FROM LIQUID TO FREEZING TO FROZEN SHOULD BE FAIRLY RAPID GIVEN THE STRONG LOW-LEVEL COLD ADVECTION... ALTHOUGH SLEET MAY PERSIST INTO TUE MORNING SE PARTS OF AREA. LIMITED ICE ACCRETION WILL BE OFFSET BY STRONG WINDS... WHICH MAY BRING DOWN EVEN LIGHTLY-COATED TREES AND POWER LINES. FOCUS WILL BE LESS ON SNOW/ICE AMOUNTS AND MORE ON THE POTENTIAL FOR PARALYZING WINTER STORM CONDITIONS DUE TO SNOW AND BLOWING/DRIFTING ALONG WITH LIFE-THREATENING WIND CHILLS. THAT BEING SAID... WE CURRENTLY PAINT A BROAD BAND OF 4-8 INCHES CENTERED ROUGHLY LAWTON-OKC-STILLWATER WITH 2-5 OVER MUCH OF THE REST OF THE WATCH AREA. GIVEN THE LIKELIHOOD OF SEVERE BLOWING/DRIFTING... WE MAY NEVER REALLY KNOW. OBVIOUS ANALOG WOULD BE XMAS EVE 2009... AND FOR SOME AREAS THIS MAY BE AS BAD OR WORSE THAN THAT ONE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I miss winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I miss winter. the threads for this storm are my romance novel...i like to dust it off the shelf and read a bit in times like these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 the threads for this storm are my romance novel...i like to dust it off the shelf and read a bit in times like these Me too. Visit the threads probably about once a month or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Was a case of the pattern supporting something big and it actually panning out. I know the MI and Toronto area folks felt let down but when you strip away the pre-storm expectations, the end result was still pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Was a case of the pattern supporting something big and it actually panning out. I know the MI and Toronto area folks felt let down but when you strip away the pre-storm expectations, the end result was still pretty good. yup...was lucky to be under one of the sweeter spots....but still just a marvel to read how it all came together...reading the analysis and breaking down of the various models was truely an education during the forecasting stages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 yup...was lucky to be under one of the sweeter spots....but still just a marvel to read how it all came together...reading the analysis and breaking down of the various models was truely an education during the forecasting stages The thing about GHD...I think there was a substantial piece of energy left behind in the southwest. Would been interesting if the entire thing came out all at once. Edit: yep, that's what resulted in that surprise event a few days later that trended way north at the last minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 The thing about GHD...I think there was a substantial piece of energy left behind in the southwest. Would been interesting if the entire thing came out all at once. Edit: yep, that's what resulted in that surprise event a few days later that trended way north at the last minute. I have fun debating this with some. If you go back and look at say the 6z charts for 2/1/11 it looks very close to the Jan/99 storm. In that event, the northern vort moved east and took in the southern wave which cause a much slower motion and why it snowed here for so long in the 99 blizzard. So I don't really know if that situation how you would get both to come out together. I think one or the other has to take over and thrive in the environment. For GHD, it was the southern wave that ejected out over the bacoclinc zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 any links to vids of your talks anywhere TSnow? Tried finding them...but no luck....the white lawn got me in the mood to re-live some of the glory days of GHD.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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