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November 2012 General Discussion


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Back to the dense overcast again! Temperature has been stuck between 46-48° since midnight so far.

Things have cleared up here, only some fog/stratus remnants floating overhead. Visible satellite reveals expansive fog/stratus across the Mississippi river valley and near Lake Michigan. I think we'll hit the 60s today, areas screwed by fog will obviously have cooler highs.

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Per the 6z GFS. Per the 00z and now 12z it winter is here to stay. Moral of story: Models suck, change drastically 4 times a day.

The 12z looks nice. I have my trailer on stand-bye for Saturday night, might head to NW lower and ride wherever the lollipop happens to be.

Jon

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The back edge of the fog got to within 5 miles of Cedar Rapids, but that's it. Now, with the sun going down, the fog has quickly become quite dense again.

Wow, I had no idea some of the area was socked in all day. We had some patchy shallow ground fog this morning, but the sun quickly burned that off and it turned out to be a nice sunny day. Made it to 60. DVN has the whole area under a dense fog advisory for tonight, and I see DVN already went down to 1/4mi. No fog at all here yet, but it looks like we're gonna get consumed by it later this evening as well. Probably have a hard time burning it off tomorrow with an even larger sheet of low clouds/fog.

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Fog is now so dense I can't tell there are any street lights on 1/8 mile away. One of the local mets had the airport's visibility down to near zero. It's very eerie looking out to nothing but darkness and no sign of light anywhere. I also just learned my Dad was in Waterloo and he is currently driving back to CR. I can't imagine driving on the interstate will be easy.

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Fog development taking off like a rocket this hour! Was driving home through low areas and the thickness would cut your visibility down to about 4 car lengths. It was kind of cool, some open yards had a real shallow layer of fog on them, almost looked like how liquid N2 evaporates out of its vessel.

Down to 43° already.

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That was pretty cool driving around yesterday morning with the fog. Southwest of downtown, there was little if any fog and brilliant sunshine but the minute you got past downtown going north it was like driving into a big dark cloud...literally. It made the entire cityscape look totally different.

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Edge of the fog deck getting close to Madison, looks like we're about to join the club. Easy to see on infrared though a little strange since it's warmer than the ground, due to the nocturnal inversion in the boundary layer http://mapmaker.aos.wisc.edu/scr3/sat/g8/g8msnflash.html

Visibility down to 2 miles at MSN and temp dropped sharply to 40 °F. I don't think the real dense fog has made it here yet, just a little hazy when looking down the street.

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