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Winter '12/'13 Complaint Thread Part 2


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Yeah I was looking more at the JFM composites since we are talking mostly the back end of this month touching into next month, plus all bets are off if it does go to the circle of death into Early March.

 

The Euro and GFS ensembles are disappointing for the Morch people, for the first week of March. I still think there's winter left for quite a few in this sub-forum...but northern half is best.

 

But considering this is the silly thread, I better move on with stuff like that. :D 

So there are still people hoping for a drought, fruit die off and insect overload?

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I've seen enough. Towel has been tossed for the LAF.

 

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The winter wasn't a complete bust though, right?  I see LAF does not report snow depth, but here is a NWS snow depth map from December 27th.  It appears at least 4 inches on the ground at LAF.

 

That is about the same as Buffalo did last summer for thunderstorms I guess.  Only one decent thunderstorm for the entire summer, and that was on August 5th.  It was literally right as I landed in Buffalo coming back from visiting relatives in VA.  The plane landed, but they wouldn't even let it taxi to the terminal until the storm subsided.  It was a nice view of the storm from the air as we landed.  Outside of that, there were one or two nights in May when there were a few lightning flashes, but nothing of much consequence.  A few days in July have thunderstorms reported officially at the airport, but they must have had like 1 strike and I don't even recall hearing any thunder at my location.  I chased to Warsaw, NY, about 60 miles to my east one day and saw the tail end of a pulse thunderstorm that literally dissipated a few minutes after I got there.  That was the entire season.

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I still don't think we've had winter storm headlines all season here in Porter.  I mean unless there was a bust while we were on winter break. 

 

When's the last time Porter County has gone an entire season without a Winter Storm Warning?

 

You missed it. Winter break I'm assuming. Busted though, on the snowfall. Valpo area had 1.0-2.2" totals.

 

 

LAKE IL-KANE-DUPAGE-COOK-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-LAKE IN-PORTER-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAUKEGAN...AURORA...WHEATON...CHICAGO...OSWEGO...MORRIS...JOLIET...GARY...VALPARAISO346 AM CST THU DEC 20 2012...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO3 AM CST FRIDAY...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORMWARNING FOR INTENSE SNOWFALL RATES...HIGH WINDS...REDUCEDVISIBILITY...AND BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECTFROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 3 AM CST FRIDAY. THE WINTER STORMWATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.* TIMING...RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW FROM WEST TO EAST LATE THIS  AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...WITH SNOW LIKELY BEING HEAVY AT  TIMES. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL AND LOWEST VISIBILITY LOOKS TO  OCCUR IN THE IMMEDIATE CHICAGO METRO AREA BETWEEN 5 AND 9 PM.  SNOW WILL LINGER THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. VERY STRONG WINDS WILL  DEVELOP AS THE SNOW ARRIVES AND CONTINUE THURSDAY NIGHT.* SNOW ACCUMULATION: SOME UNCERTAINTY CONTINUES WITH REGARD TO  SNOW AMOUNTS BUT CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT TOTALS OF 2 TO  POSSIBLY 6 INCHES ARE LIKELY...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS FAVORED  ACROSS THE FAR NORTH AND NORTHWEST SUBURBS OF CHICAGO...AND  ACROSS NORTHEAST PORTER COUNTY INDIANA. LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS  ARE POSSIBLE IF HEAVY SNOW BANDS WITH THUNDERSNOW OCCUR.* WIND: WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHWEST AND INCREASE TO 30 TO 40 MPH  BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THURSDAY NIGHT WITH GUSTS TO  50 TO 60 MPH EXPECTED. WINDS NEAR THE LAKE AND PORTER COUNTY  SHORELINE COULD EXCEED 60 MPH AT TIMES.
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The winter wasn't a complete bust though, right? I see LAF does not report snow depth, but here is a NWS snow depth map from December 27th. It appears at least 4 inches on the ground at LAF.

That is about the same as Buffalo did last summer for thunderstorms I guess. Only one decent thunderstorm for the entire summer, and that was on August 5th. It was literally right as I landed in Buffalo coming back from visiting relatives in VA. The plane landed, but they wouldn't even let it taxi to the terminal until the storm subsided. It was a nice view of the storm from the air as we landed. Outside of that, there were one or two nights in May when there were a few lightning flashes, but nothing of much consequence. A few days in July have thunderstorms reported officially at the airport, but they must have had like 1 strike and I don't even recall hearing any thunder at my location. I chased to Warsaw, NY, about 60 miles to my east one day and saw the tail end of a pulse thunderstorm that literally dissipated a few minutes after I got there. That was the entire season.

The Dec 26 storm is pretty much the only one worth talking about. Everything else has been inch or less. LAF is probably going to struggle to get much more than half of its average seasonal snowfall.

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The Dec 26 storm is pretty much the only one worth talking about. Everything else has been inch or less. LAF is probably going to struggle to get much more than half of its average seasonal snowfall.

 

That's what happened where I live last winter.  This winter we have had less than 2/3 the normal amount of snowfall to date, and last winter it was under half.

 

...THE BUFFALO NY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 18 2013...VALID TODAY AS OF 0400 PM LOCAL TIME.CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1871 TO 2013WEATHER ITEM   OBSERVED TIME   RECORD YEAR NORMAL DEPARTURE LAST                VALUE   (LST)  VALUE       VALUE  FROM      YEAR                                                  NORMAL..................................................................SNOWFALL (IN)  TODAY            T             4.9  1958   0.6   -0.6      0.6  MONTH TO DATE   18.5                      11.5    7.0      5.1  SINCE DEC 1     44.3                      64.2  -19.9     29.7  SINCE JUL 1     46.7                      73.0  -26.3     29.7  SNOW DEPTH       T

 

As I recall, I only saw one significant snowstorm when I lived in Lafayette the first  half of 1998, and that was in March.  But I was only there starting in early January, so that would not count anything that happened earlier in the winter.

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This winter speaks for itself, even though I'm far from the worst-off member snowwise, it has truly tried to outdo last year's bad winter.  Nickel and diming to death, situations where precip dries up just as it turns over to snow (like tonight), snow events that were all sleet, etc.  If this summer is like last, I truly will stop following weather.

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Can you have a winter complaint thread when there was no winter?  Think about it? 

 

lol

 

Sucks for us, but overall in the region...there's been more winter with this year's edition.

 

2013-14 will rock for LAF/OKK!

 

Well, chances are it probably won't...but we have to hope for the best.

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This winter speaks for itself, even though I'm far from the worst-off member snowwise, it has truly tried to outdo last year's bad winter.  Nickel and diming to death, situations where precip dries up just as it turns over to snow (like tonight), snow events that were all sleet, etc.  If this summer is like last, I truly will stop following weather.

 

you won't and will be a 25 yr old virgin before you know it.

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