Hoosier Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 lol, up to 6 at 11PM. LAFAYETTE CLOUDY 6 -5 60 CALM 30.18R Down to 3. Let the dropping resume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Down to 3. Let the dropping resume. A small speed bump if you will. Still like our chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 A small speed bump if you will. Still like our chances. Still cloudy though. Pretty wide range of outcomes depending on clouds and winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Down to -1 here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Been sitting at -1 for awhile. Don't think we'll drop anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 Thursday, January 19th: Hi: 27F Lo: 4F Overall Sky Conditions: Partly Cloudy Max Wind Gust: 30MPH Rainfall: 0.01" Snowfall: 0.1" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 1 degree at 1 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Will be interesting to see how much we recover tomorrow. Considerable warming aloft but with snow on the ground and the very cold start, I think low/mid 20's may be all she wrote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 -6 °F at MSN, probably around -1 °F in the city based on obs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Bottomed out at -1, which is the coldest of the season so far. Have already started the rise here. Up to 1 above as high clouds infiltrate from the west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 1° at UGN. -14° dewpoint. Probably drop to -2° or so, before clouds move in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 LAF just hit 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 LAF just hit 0. Looks like -1 squeaked out between obs. First sub zero of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I bottomed out at 6. kept lake clouds and flurries til late in the night. side note...... South Bend is officially .5" ahead on snowfall for the season..... 35.5", prolly crack 40" today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 nothing like the low tire pressure light and the plastic screen in front of the gauges frosting over to tell you its really dang cold out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I'm starting to have dreams of sitting on the beach in Ft Lauderdale... Thankfully we are almost to Feb, so I guess the finish line is kind of in sight (depending on how brutal March/April end up being). Hit -8F last night. Coldest so far. -1F right now and the snow is coming down pretty good. Don't remember the last time it was this cold and snowing. Looks like mild weather returns until early Feb.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Turtle- Is MSN that much of a heat island? The obs taken in La Crosse are at the airport, which actually sits on French Island (surround by the Mississippi and Black River/Lake Onalaska) north of the city. Its basically a huge open snow cover field, so i'm sure the obs in downtown La Crosse are probably a little warmer). The NWS sits on top of the Bluff (about 600ft above the city), so temps usually are warmer/colder depending on the conditions). Running in this crap, you can really tell which areas are cold sinks. There is a field that I run past and in the fall, I can usually feel a good 5F drop in temps (this is at night). I also run down a hill into a subdivision and you can always feel a temp change as you get to the bottom. Lots of little microclimates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 By far coldest morning of the winter this morning. 4F at DTW, as low as -8F at White Lake, all way below guidance. Perhaps a light fresh snowcover really helped temps plummet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Looks like -1 squeaked out between obs. First sub zero of the season. IND nailed it. Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Reached -2 here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherpsycho Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 By far coldest morning of the winter this morning. 4F at DTW, as low as -8F at White Lake, all way below guidance. Perhaps a light fresh snowcover really helped temps plummet. I knew it was pretty cold last night when I could occasionally hear the the 2X4 & 2X6 wood in the attic contracting & make that popping sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Will be interesting to see how much we recover tomorrow. Considerable warming aloft but with snow on the ground and the very cold start, I think low/mid 20's may be all she wrote. Even this is probably too warm. Low level cold ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Turtle- Is MSN that much of a heat island? The obs taken in La Crosse are at the airport, which actually sits on French Island (surround by the Mississippi and Black River/Lake Onalaska) north of the city. Its basically a huge open snow cover field, so i'm sure the obs in downtown La Crosse are probably a little warmer). The NWS sits on top of the Bluff (about 600ft above the city), so temps usually are warmer/colder depending on the conditions). Running in this crap, you can really tell which areas are cold sinks. There is a field that I run past and in the fall, I can usually feel a good 5F drop in temps (this is at night). I also run down a hill into a subdivision and you can always feel a temp change as you get to the bottom. Lots of little microclimates. Madison has a unique heat island effect. The airport is in the plains off the the northeast, so things radiate there nicely. However, Madison is surrounded by 2 lakes, and there's a ridge down the middle of the isthmus. So all the cold air sinks out into the lake this time of year. That's why we are commonly 5-10 °F warmer than the airport. There is also a good bit of buildings and concrete obviously. It's densely populated here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigander Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I knew it was pretty cold last night when I could occasionally hear the the 2X4 & 2X6 wood in the attic contracting & make that popping sound. I heard that sound a few winters ago on a super cold night. It turned out that roof boards under my shingles had taken on moisture from ice damming, and they were warping from the cold as they froze. The sound I heard was the board snapping loose from the joist. Not good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Forgot about those lakes. Are they fully frozen over now? The river here does almost nothing for our local climate. Just not enough volume. It freezes over fast and opens up fast. Sparta must have their station in a frost hollow. Its got to be surrounded by steep hills or something. Up to 4F or 5F now! Feels almost like Miami..minus the girls in thongs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Forgot about those lakes. Are they fully frozen over now? The river here does almost nothing for our local climate. Just not enough volume. It freezes over fast and opens up fast. Sparta must have their station in a frost hollow. Its got to be surrounded by steep hills or something. Up to 4F or 5F now! Feels almost like Miami..minus the girls in thongs. Completely frozen, happened within a few days of the pattern change. And yeah, I bet there are alot of places like Sparta even way south of there, but they don't have wx stations in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Nam actually backed off on WAA, usually it is the other way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherpsycho Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I heard that sound a few winters ago on a super cold night. It turned out that roof boards under my shingles had taken on moisture from ice damming, and they were warping from the cold as they froze. The sound I heard was the board snapping loose from the joist. Not good! Yikes! That is no good! Thankfully mine is just a light popping that occurs when it is really cold like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Clear blue skies north of the house... sun poking through a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Losing heat in my apartment by the day even tho my heat is on full blast. It's such a weak heating system. 60 °F Gonna fire up the gas oven and try to heat this place up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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