cyclone77 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Pretty cool forecast image here from the St. Louis WRF. This is at 3pm tomorrow. Well, I guess 3pm later today since it's now after midnight lol. It's near zero in far northwest Iowa, and in the lower 60s in southeast Iowa. You just gotta love that kind of extreme contrast over a small state like Iowa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 the models are all showing an impressive area of rain oriented SW-NE moving across the area during the morning hours tomorrow but differ on the exact location. IWX WRF brings it from northeast MO to RFD NAM/GFS more from western IL to across the chi metro or just south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 the models are all showing an impressive area of rain oriented SW-NE moving across the area during the morning hours tomorrow but differ on the exact location. IWX WRF brings it from northeast MO to RFD NAM/GFS more from western IL to across the chi metro or just south. The SPC WRF cranks out some pretty decent rains right over Chicagoland. http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/wrf/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 LOT has me at a high of 53 tomorrow, think we bust on the high side by a good 3 or 4 degrees, if not higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 HRRR looks to have a good handle with the ongoing convection in MO and brings an area of heavy rain/storms across northern IL between 12z-15z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Not a fair fight, as LAF is blowing away the rest of central Indiana at 9AM. LAFAYETTE...54 TERRE HAUTE...51 INDIANAPOLIS...51 SHELBYVILLE...51 BLOOMINGTON...51 MUNCIE...50 FWIW, I have 49.8º on my thermometer right now. Regardless, lock it up as far as a 60º+ temp at LAF today. 62º is the airport record...and it's going down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Front through here 20F now... MKE is at 49F... Snow depth down to a foot...from a high of 21 inches... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Snow here is going quick. Still a general inch or two of cover, but lots of grass patches developing. Will be just piles, maybe a few patches, by tomorrow. Oh well, if they lost 14" of snow in the quad cities, I shoudlve known my 5" wouldnt last lol. For DTW, since he 7am snow depth was 2" today, the stretch of 5"+ snowcover days was 18 days in a row, technically 3 more than the avg for a winter. 1"+ snowcover days is at 20 though, and snow depth will be a T tomorrow (if not 0), so still about 30 more to get to avg on that front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Already 55 in Kokomo! Yippie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 46 and my 1" of snowcover has bitten the dust. Only snow remaining is the piles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Not a fair fight, as LAF is blowing away the rest of central Indiana at 9AM. LAFAYETTE...54 TERRE HAUTE...51 INDIANAPOLIS...51 SHELBYVILLE...51 BLOOMINGTON...51 MUNCIE...50 FWIW, I have 49.8º on my thermometer right now. Regardless, lock it up as far as a 60º+ temp at LAF today. 62º is the airport record...and it's going down. 59 on the new ob...should make a run at the record. Ya got any room on the wagon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 59 on the new ob...should make a run at the record. Ya got any room on the wagon? I had a setback on my run to 60. It got up to 54 by 10 AM, then we had a thundershower roll through (Don't you love IN weather?) and it dropped off to 48. Now the sun is trying to peek through and it's back up to 54. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I had a setback on my run to 60. It got up to 54 by 10 AM, then we had a thundershower roll through (Don't you love IN weather?) and it dropped off to 48. Now the sun is trying to peek through and it's back up to 54. It's going to be tougher to get it there. Guess you can't rule it out. LAF running too warm again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 We MAY just make it to 50 in Detroit, would would be the first time since I believe November. We've had a few significant peeks of sunshine since the 12 PM observation (49*F as of that time at both airports), but it's a race against time for those rain showers upstream. BTW, there are CB clouds (cumulonimbus) overhead. Jackson did report thunder at 12 PM, so it'll intersting to see if we can get some too, or at least heavy rain showers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 59 on the new ob...should make a run at the record. Ya got any room on the wagon? All aboard. LAF just running away with things. I think you have to tack on 2-3 degrees in these situations, to make up for the LAF-effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Well we did in fact make it to 50*F on the dot at both airport. It should be downhill from here with the rain showers on our doorstep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 60º at 4PM, but back down to 59º at 5PM. Record high may be safe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 45F in MSN...27F here...come on warm air...get over here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Sitting at 51 here. Firmly entrenched in our favorite location, the dry slot. Have a surprising amount of cover left. Still 1-2", but there's a few bare spots in some of the areas that were drifted out. These last few inches are pretty dense, given it's from the first snowfall. I was in the QC all day and they don't have anything left there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Even the small to medium sized piles have dwindled here. But the monsters at the mall, shopping centers, etc. will survive. Ugly, just ugly. And no real hint of any snow for LAF for the foreseeable future. What a quick turnaround from a cold and snowy December to general blahness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 Unless we get a sneak shower over the next 6 hours, it looks like I can close the books on December 2010, as well as 2010 as a whole. December Total Precip: 1.32" (-1.41") 48% of normal Total Snowfall: 9.2" (-2.5") 79% of normal 2010 Total Precip: 32.96" (-0.80") 98% of normal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Even the small to medium sized piles have dwindled here. But the monsters at the mall, shopping centers, etc. will survive. Ugly, just ugly. And no real hint of any snow for LAF for the foreseeable future. What a quick turnaround from a cold and snowy December to general blahness. Yeah quite the change. We didn't get a torch like this all of last winter up here. It's amazing how much things have changed around here. Just 3-4 days ago we had over a foot of dense snow cover. It looked like it would take till June to melt lol. Like they always say, never underestimate the power of strong WAA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Yeah quite the change. We didn't get a torch like this all of last winter up here. It's amazing how much things have changed around here. Just 3-4 days ago we had over a foot of dense snow cover. It looked like it would take till June to melt lol. Like they always say, never underestimate the power of strong WAA. I knew it was coming, but it just seems like 7-8" of snow got completely wiped out overnight. It was just too quick. But such is life here this late December. One minute it feels like winter will never go away, and then the next day, Spring has sprung and the windows are open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 60º at 4PM, but back down to 59º at 5PM. Record high may be safe... I think it's safe...any chance we had is slipping away. I guess next up is to see where we're at just after midnight to try to challenge the record for Jan 1. Just looking at the obs from late morning and nothing else, it looked like runaway warmth. But we could only get so warm with all the clouds and lack of sun/deep mixing. I could've done better but if my original call ends up being underdone by 2 degrees on a day where the high temp forecast was not easy, I can live with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Even the small to medium sized piles have dwindled here. But the monsters at the mall, shopping centers, etc. will survive. Ugly, just ugly. And no real hint of any snow for LAF for the foreseeable future. What a quick turnaround from a cold and snowy December to general blahness. I actually saw some very small patches in more sheltered areas on some people's lawns, but I imagine those will be going away in the next several hours. The huge piles will definitely live on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Same thing here. A week ago there was a beautiful blanket of fluffy snow with big flakes pouring down, but now everything is dirty and ugly. The open areas are mostly bare and even my yard has patchy green/brown areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Glare ice here. All the roads are ice skating rinks. Saw a bunch of cars smashed up on I90... Traffic moving about 25mph... it was raining pretty good and the temp was 29F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 60º at 4PM, but back down to 59º at 5PM. Record high may be safe... Only made 58 in MBY and at FWA. I thought we had a shot at 60, but didn't make it. Still at 57 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Glare ice here. All the roads are ice skating rinks. Saw a bunch of cars smashed up on I90... Traffic moving about 25mph... it was raining pretty good and the temp was 29F. Wow, I'll take my 57 and rain over 29 and ZR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Ugly... Its one of those that even if you touch the brakes they all lock up and you slide sideways. I could just touch the gas and the tires would spin... It must have just happened...When i left the grocery store it was not slippery, just raining... Then as i drove west it glazed like a donut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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