BowMeHunter Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 What I had... Nice! And once a snow weenie always a snow weenie. You'll love winter and I'll win the winter snowfall contest if my horrible dream of last night comes true. I was feeling a little more optimistic about winter and then the dream had to happen.. would be a worse winter than a couple of the late 90's early 2000's Did an all day sit in the tree and seen nothing as usual. I was ready to jet out but then the snow started and I had something to watch until the so called prime hrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 You'll love winter and I'll win the winter snowfall contest if my horrible dream of last night comes true. I was feeling a little more optimistic about winter and then the dream had to happen.. would be a worse winter than a couple of the late 90's early 2000's Need details. Like constant 60's and sun...or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Illinois Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 The first snow was today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Looking like NE Ohio will be seeing some lake effect snow showers here in the next 12-24 hours. The National Weather Service in Cleveland has mentioned some localized areas could see about 3-4" of snow for the event. Not a bad way to start Lake Effect Snow season. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Had off and on snow showers this afternoon, just a trace but nice to see! First snow since Apr 19th. My friend in Bloomfield sent me a pic, grass and rooftops coated white, probably half an inch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Nice pic of the snow at the DTX office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlogin Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 RIP Edmund Fitzgerald. And lest we forget----------One hell of a storm---today ----36 years ago today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 To bad the cold air wont be present for that system on the 18th! Would be a decent hit for the majority of us..850s look a tad torchy for snow. Cant win em all but its nice to see the storm track taking those paths. :weenie::weenie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
an uncanny otter Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Saw the first snowflakes of the season earlier in the evening. It was a quick burst and enough to coat cars and roofs in a thin layer of powder. That's good enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Nice pic of the snow at the DTX office. Thats cool, where did you get that pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Thats cool, where did you get that pic? It was posted on the DTX Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/US.NationalWeatherService.Detroit.gov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 It was posted on the DTX Facebook page http://www.facebook....ice.Detroit.gov Cool. I like their facebook page! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
an uncanny otter Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 It's interesting to note that my first snowfall of winter 2008 - 2009 also occurred on November 10th, with 1.2 cm. A sign of things to come hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Found this on the LSX website, tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the great November 11th cold front. Links below to the LSX, EAX, and SGF write ups. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=11/11/1911coldsnap http://www.crh.noaa.gov/sgf/?n=great_blue_norther http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/?n=nov_11_1911 From the LSX write up... The Dramatic 11/11/1911 Cold FrontA cold front moved through the central part of United States on Saturday, November 11, 1911 causing one of the most dramatic temperature drops ever recorded over such a large area of the United States. An excerpt from the annual climatological report written by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Weather Bureau (the predecessor to today's National Weather Service) described the front like this: "The fall in temperature on the 11th was remarkable; the maximum temperatures up to about 2 pm were of summer heat, but by 7 p.m. over most of the Section (Missouri), freezing conditions obtained. As a rule the fall was 50° in less than three hours; and 65° to 70° in eighteen to twenty-four hours; in many instances there was a fall of 25° to 30° in the first twenty minutes. The cold wave was immediately preceded by typical thunderstorm conditions; some local damage was done by both wind and hail. Another Weather Bureau report noted: "In St. Louis the temperature was 75° at 6:10 pm on the 11th, when the change began, and in 10 minutes it had fallen to 49°, and by 1 a.m on the 12th it had fallen to 17°." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Been getting some decent snow showers here since around noon. In a lull at the moment but another nice band about to move in. Easily over a inch for the day. Grass and car tops has been covered a few times and melted off. Have a nice covering again with more about to move in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Had first flakes on the Eastside of the Metro today, it was coming down pretty good, enough to leave snow/ice on my car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Band has moved in and it is snowing hard and to the point roads are now getting covered even! About a inch on the ground now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Found this on the LSX website, tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the great November 11th cold front. Links below to the LSX, EAX, and SGF write ups. Amazing event to say the least. Was reading up on that one about a week ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 1 to 2 inches of snow on the ground here in Spring Lake, Mi. Areas right at the lakeshore don't have anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowMeHunter Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Lost any hope for a change to extended winter like weather before dec. That is all great and fuzzy as long an extended winter starts showing up on long range models in a couple weeks without pulling the rug from beneath the weenie range looker in me. longer the models and pattern stays volatile and rug pulling, I will stay very pessimistic about a good winter as march has been MIA. John Dee says late start to winter but then rocks out with weenie's out.. I hope ole man winter has his blue pills prescription locked and loaded and has no restraining order on mamma nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 1 to 2 inches of snow on the ground here in Spring Lake, Mi. Areas right at the lakeshore don't have anything. Looking at a total of 2-3 here depending on what that band ( that does not seem to wanna quit ) does? Was nice to see everything plastered in white and what was great was the flake size which was the 1/2 dollar size flakes when it was coming down hard. Anyways i am pretty happy as i did not expect this much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWeatherPimp Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Had a nice coating of snow here this evening. Actually stuck to the grass for about 2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowlord81 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Just got home from work and have a small coating also. I work 30 mins away and we just had a few snow showers. It was nice to see though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 EVV, ORD, and STL finally got their first 32º or lower min temp this morning. 27º here at 7AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 First Dusting for the year on cars and little on grassy surfaces. Nice start to winter In a couple weeks will be laughing at dusting events. Cold air is lurking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think that a winter like 1974-75 is a distinct possibility. That winter wasa second year La Nina, as is this one. November 1974 saw a superstorm in November, just like this November has. The previous winter (1973-74) had some similarities to last winter, while the summer of 1973 was hot, much like the summer of 2010 in this region. people in Michigan would like a repeat of 1974-75, but it was virtually snowless in Toronto! On the bright side, that dud of a winter (74-75) was followed by four good winters in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think that a winter like 1974-75 is a distinct possibility. That winter wasa second year La Nina, as is this one. November 1974 saw a superstorm in November, just like this November has. The previous winter (1973-74) had some similarities to last winter, while the summer of 1973 was hot, much like the summer of 2010 in this region. people in Michigan would like a repeat of 1974-75, but it was virtually snowless in Toronto! On the bright side, that dud of a winter (74-75) was followed by four good winters in a row. What was the total snow in Toronto in 1974-75? In Detroit, we saw the earliest freeze (Sep 22) and earliest snow (Oct 1) on record. January was mild with light snow here as well, but overall it was a great winter. On top of the Dec 1st storm that dropped 20" over metro-Detroit, a storm at the beginning of April dumped 20" near Flint and Saginaw. At Detroit, this was the 3rd of 7 consecutive winters with either above normal snowfall and/or snowcover. Since averages oscillate, but that was coming off the sucky 1930s-1960s period, Ill use a base of 40" for avg snowfall and 50 days for average 1"+ snowcover days. 1972-73: 45.0" snow, 38 days 1"+ snwcvr (mild with slightly above average snowfall) 1973-74: 49.2" snow, 57 days 1"+ snwcvr (near normal temps but above average snowfall and snowcover) 1974-75: 63.1" snow, 65 days 1"+ snwcvr (mild but above average snowfall and snowcover) 1975-76: 55.9" snow, 68 days 1"+ snwcvr (near normal temps but above average snowfall and snowcover) 1976-77: 43.9" snow, 67 days 1"+ snwcvr (brutally cold, above average snowcover) 1977-78: 61.7" snow, 91 days 1"+ snwcvr (brutally cold, above average snowfall and snowcover) 1978-79: 35.6" snow, 60 days 1"+ snwcvr (brutally cold, above average snowcover) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 It's so nice to see the sun again. Very winter-like though despite the sun and a modest south wind, it's 38 °F and almost noon. The sun will be down in 5 hours too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 long way out but insane baroclinic zone across the plains into the midwest on the GFS. 40 degree spread from southern TX to Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toronto4 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think that a winter like 1974-75 is a distinct possibility. That winter wasa second year La Nina, as is this one. November 1974 saw a superstorm in November, just like this November has. The previous winter (1973-74) had some similarities to last winter, while the summer of 1973 was hot, much like the summer of 2010 in this region. people in Michigan would like a repeat of 1974-75, but it was virtually snowless in Toronto! On the bright side, that dud of a winter (74-75) was followed by four good winters in a row. I wasn't born yet, but the best event of the 1974-75 winter in Toronto was the April 2nd, 1975 blizzard which dumped close to 10" of snow. I don't have the stats in front of me currently, but I think the total snowfall that winter season for downtown Toronto was close to 50" (around 121 cm). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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