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Spring "Freeze out"


BowMeHunter

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TONIGHT...LOOKS TO BE ANOTHER GOOD RADIATIVE COOLING NIGHT /LIGHT

WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES/ ACROSS THE AREA. MOST LOCATIONS WILL LIKELY

ONCE AGAIN FALL BELOW FREEZING. THE COLDEST AREAS WILL LIKELY BE

FOUND IN THE CRANBERRY BOG AREAS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN...AND

IN BOTH THE WISCONSIN AND KICKAPOO RIVER VALLEYS. THESE LOCATIONS

WILL LIKELY FALL INTO THE LOWER AND MID 20S. HOWEVER MANY AREAS OF

THESE SAME COUNTIES WILL NOT BE QUITE THIS COLD...SO NOT SURE

WHAT TO DO WITH THESE MICRO-CLIMATES. MEANWHILE...THE REMAINDER OF

THE AREA WILL NOT BE COLD ENOUGH FOR A FREEZE...BUT THEY WILL NOT

HAVE ENOUGH MOISTURE /TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINT SPREADS ARE

GREATER THAN 7F/ FOR THE FORMATION OF FROST EITHER. DUE TO THE

EXISTING HEADLINE AND THE UNCERTAINTIES THAT WERE ALREADY

MENTIONED... DECIDED TO HOLD OFF ISSUING ANY HEADLINES FOR

TONIGHT. THIS WILL GIVE THE DAY SHIFT THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT

ANOTHER 1 TO 3 MODELS RUNS BEFORE MAKING THE DECISION OF WHETHER

HEADLINES ARE NEEDED FOR TONIGHT.

Another night of this crap...

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Hit 28° sometime between midnight and now. Lots of frosty surfaces when I first got up at 6:45. Up to 31° now. Ouch, mid 20s in the Fox Valley.

...Had a couple mm thick layer of ice on the birdbath.

Upper 20s tonight again.

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Clouds and the snow showers last night saved us from getting down to freezing.

Light snow reported with visib as low as 5 miles at DTW overnight, so a T on both Apr 10 and 11th. It looks like a few places in SE MI picked up measurable snow, 0.2" at White Lake, reports of 0.1", 0,2", and 0.4" in Ann Arbor, and 0.1" in Tipton. Temps stayed in the mid-upper 30s with solid overcast and flakes, but should freeze tonight.

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A rarity, LAF leads the way in Indiana. Min temps below.

LAF: 26

BMG: 27

GSH: 27

GUS: 27

FWA: 28

HUF: 29

IND: 29

GEZ: 29

SBN: 29

VPZ: 30

EYE: 31

Round two tomorrow morning, as freeze warnings are up again. Point and click has 28 for LAF.

Clouds and snow showers ftw. LAF was 10F colder than DTW last night. Clouds should clear tonight though, so Im fully expecting a freeze. Weve had several freezes since the early greenup, but none as low as 26...this was LAFs first since early March, right?

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Sounds like a really cold night on tap. LOT calling for low to mid 20s across a decent chunk of the CWA.

Noticed a bunch of those yellow flowered bushes along a nearby road were done in for this morning.

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At least 26 at LAF. We'll see in about 13 minutes at the top of the hour, how low it actually got. 7 hours of freezing temps. Overachiever.

Not only that, but 4 hours of temps AOB 28.  I think winds were the culprit...they dropped off more than expected (fluctuated from calm to 3 mph much of the night).

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Clouds and snow showers ftw. LAF was 10F colder than DTW last night. Clouds should clear tonight though, so Im fully expecting a freeze. Weve had several freezes since the early greenup, but none as low as 26...this was LAFs first since early March, right?

Yep, last time was 32 on March 11.

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I'm not sure how/where TWC comes up with their extended forecast on Local on the 8's.

I swear on a pallet of high end weather stations that I walked past the TV yesterday and saw a high of 81 for Sunday here in Flint. Last night, I checked it and it was down to 71 degrees. Just now, the high for Sunday is 68 degrees. But a revision from 81 to 68 is quite an impressive errata for a 24 hour period.

It does seem to be the trend lately on LOT8 forecasts to run high 5-6 days out and then keep lowering the high temps with each update.

Not that Flint WX is easy to forecast, especially if you're in ATL. Seems like you have to have lived here most of your life, know which achy joint means what and know which way and how high to toss the magic forecasting dust to comprehend Flint weather.

Years ago, when I worked in radio, a fella by the name of Joe Zona was one of the mets on our station. He said that Flint's location, being in a valley, east and south of the flatlands, west and north of the hilly land and proximity to Saginaw Bay made it very hard to forecast. I tend to agree that Flint seems to be in it's own little microclimate and this is why, for example, we tend to get a lot of wierd dry slots in linear snow/rain bands and larger thunderstorm cells coming up I-69 often split in two when they get into Genesee county.

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