dmc76 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 A beautiful 39° with overcast skies, Breezy and off and on drizzle/ light showers. Rain Totals for the week: 2.76". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 GRR 5 day storm total is 3.78". Rain guage IMBY is just over 4". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Temp has slipped to 39. Perfect weather for Tim. Wasn't pretty out there today on the range, have to be honest. Couple rounds of sleet were the icing on the cake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjwise Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Looking at next week, WPC is thinking 2nd verse is same as the first, maybe with the axis of heaviest rain a little further to the south than this week. Perhaps some larger scale flooding concerns developing if this verifies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 State of emergency expanded across my regional municipality to include the two townships adjacent this city. Also, Perth County has declared a state of emergency for the northern end of their county about 25km west of here. Evacuation centres are being set up. This is crazy I have never seen such damage here with all the fallen trees and power lines. This will probably go down as one of the worst ice storms in Southern Ontario history. There are massive chunks of ice falling of buildings and hydro lines etc. I walked to an intersection with working traffic lights and the lady ahead of me narrowly missed being struck by a falling ice chunk off a street light that could have been 1-2 feet long. Had my umbrella up all the way home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Just an all out miserable day again today. Only 41 with a heavy overcast all day. Snow showers didn't materialize, so there was no damn reason for it to be this cold lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 Just an all out miserable day again today. Only 41 with a heavy overcast all day. Snow showers didn't materialize, so there was no damn reason for it to be this cold lol. With the avg high in the low 60s now, these days in the 30s & 40s are getting ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 With the avg high in the low 60s now, these days in the 30s & 40s are getting ridiculous. Same. Spring will come eventually since this pattern cannot last forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted April 12, 2013 Author Share Posted April 12, 2013 With the avg high in the low 60s now, these days in the 30s & 40s are getting ridiculous. +1 Only 44° here today. Just had a quick shower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted April 12, 2013 Share Posted April 12, 2013 State of emergency expanded across my regional municipality to include the two townships adjacent this city. Also, Perth County has declared a state of emergency for the northern end of their county about 25km west of here. Evacuation centres are being set up. This is crazy I have never seen such damage here with all the fallen trees and power lines. This will probably go down as one of the worst ice storms in Southern Ontario history. There are massive chunks of ice falling of buildings and hydro lines etc. I walked to an intersection with working traffic lights and the lady ahead of me narrowly missed being struck by a falling ice chunk off a street light that could have been 1-2 feet long. Had my umbrella up all the way home. Definitely a major ice storm for southern Ontario. Looks like you guys got it a bit worse than here. We only had about 3200 17,000 in Guelph without power at the peak, I managed to keep power the entire time. Went for a drive today and there are tons of large trees down around the city. Seems like we took a lot of damage for 10mm of freezing rain. Imagine if the potential 20mm forecast had come through: (photos are not mine) Post-event discussion AWCN11 CWTO 122001 Updated weather summary for all of Southern Ontario and the National Capital Region issued by Environment Canada At 3:31 PM EDT Friday 12 April 2013. ------------------------------------------------------------- ==weather event discussion== An active weather pattern has affected much of Southern Ontario the past several days. Southwestern Ontario received significant rainfall this week. Below are total precipitation amounts since Tuesday that have been reported as of 2 PM today. Some of the values below include precipitation in the form of freezing rain, ice pellets and snow on Thursday and Friday morning. ------------------------------------------------------------- Location rain amount (mm) ------------------------------------------------------------- Windsor 60 Sarnia Airport 85 London 67 Vineland 73 Ridgetown 65 Goderich 56 Kitchener 71 Elora 61 Hamilton Airport 66 Buttonville Airport 51 Pearson international airport 58 Toronto city 58 Many areas also received significant freezing rain on Thursday and Friday. Several locales reported greater than 10 mm of freezing Rain. Widespread power outages occured across much of Southern Ontario due to the combination of ice accumulation and strong winds. Below are freezing rainfall amounts from Thursday, most of it occurring Thursday night and Friday, as of 2 PM today. These Numbers are estimates, as freezing rain was mixed with or changed to ice pellets, snow or rain at times. ------------------------------------------------------------- Location freezing rain amount (mm) ------------------------------------------------------------- London 7 Goderich 12 Kitchener 10 Hamilton 3 Toronto Pearson 10 Markham (Buttonville) 10 Wiarton 14 Collingwood 9 Barrie 10 Oshawa 10 Peterborough 16 Trenton 10 Beatrice 14 Petawawa 6 Bancroft 14 Brockville 12 Ottawa 4 This weather summary contains preliminary information and may not constitute an official or final report. END/OSPC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Jan 20th or April 23rd? Non-doctored GFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 I had to check and make sure my cache was cleared... I'm being dead serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Definitely a major ice storm for southern Ontario. Looks like you guys got it a bit worse than here. We only had about 3200 in Guelph without power at the peak, I managed to keep power the entire time. Went for a drive today and there are tons of large trees down around the city. Seems like we took a lot of damage for 10mm of freezing rain. Imagine if the potential 20mm forecast had come through: This was taken this morning in Hawkesville in Wellesley Township (about 10 miles NW of here) which is under a state of emergency tonight. The icing was not that extreme down here. It looks like we were on the very southern fringe of the major icing damage with some trees down and a lot of large branches, and the farther south into Kitchener you get there is less visible damage, but just a mile or two north of Waterloo and it's nothing but downed trees and hydro lines which extends well into Wellington County. It would have been a... disaster if the worst of this ice storm had extended just 10-30 miles farther south. I got into work at 630am and power was on, but by about 715am there was a round of flickering, then we lost power completely. It took about five minutes for the generators to kick in which kept us up and running all day. All the businesses around us shut down including the malls, grocery stores, and restaurants. Many are still in the dark in the city right now. I also lost home cable/phone until about 330pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted April 13, 2013 Author Share Posted April 13, 2013 Jonger - that's crazy! 30s for 1pm that would translate into around here, colder further east. --- Those are quite the ice pictures - especially the last one with broken power poles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 The trees here have yet to leaf out. It's really weird to have barren trees in mid April. Makes me wonder if May will be just as cold. :axe: :axe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 This was taken this morning in Hawkesville in Wellesley Township (about 10 miles NW of here) which is under a state of emergency tonight. The icing was not that extreme down here. It looks like we were on the very southern fringe of the major icing damage with some trees down and a lot of large branches, and the farther south into Kitchener you get there is less visible damage, but just a mile or two north of Waterloo and it's nothing but downed trees and hydro lines which extends well into Wellington County. It would have been a... disaster if the worst of this ice storm had extended just 10-30 miles farther south. I got into work at 630am and power was on, but by about 715am there was a round of flickering, then we lost power completely. It took about five minutes for the generators to kick in which kept us up and running all day. All the businesses around us shut down including the malls, grocery stores, and restaurants. Many are still in the dark in the city right now. I also lost home cable/phone until about 330pm. Wow amazing picture there. I was suprised I managed to keep power all night, went outside at one point and witnessed multiple larger power flashes in the distance. North end of town was hit a lot harder than the south end (where I live). Amazing how sharp the p-type/intensity gradient can be with these types of systems... a few miles difference could have put thousands more people in the bullseye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Just an all out miserable day again today. Only 41 with a heavy overcast all day. Snow showers didn't materialize, so there was no damn reason for it to be this cold lol. +100000 Looks like are only """nice""" day will be Monday..calling for 51F and maybe some sun. I saw the sun today for about 5 minutes around 6pm tonite... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 This was taken this morning in Hawkesville in Wellesley Township (about 10 miles NW of here) which is under a state of emergency tonight. The icing was not that extreme down here. It looks like we were on the very southern fringe of the major icing damage with some trees down and a lot of large branches, and the farther south into Kitchener you get there is less visible damage, but just a mile or two north of Waterloo and it's nothing but downed trees and hydro lines which extends well into Wellington County. It would have been a... disaster if the worst of this ice storm had extended just 10-30 miles farther south. I got into work at 630am and power was on, but by about 715am there was a round of flickering, then we lost power completely. It took about five minutes for the generators to kick in which kept us up and running all day. All the businesses around us shut down including the malls, grocery stores, and restaurants. Many are still in the dark in the city right now. I also lost home cable/phone until about 330pm. AMAZING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 +100000 Looks like are only """nice""" day will be Monday..calling for 51F and maybe some sun. I saw the sun today for about 5 minutes around 6pm tonite... Tomorrow is possibly the last time we'll see any sun for at least 5 days. The sun came out for a bit earlier but that doesn't really count because the last sunny day was on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 The trees here have yet to leaf out. It's really weird to have barren trees in mid April. Makes me wonder if May will be just as cold. :axe: :axe: The trees are nowhere close to leafing out. I have noticed buds on maple trees...but both my mom and boss commented the other day "will the trees ever start budding?" lol. A bit of an exaggeration but lets be honest, slate gray skies give it the trees their usual mid-winter appearance. Once we get some sunshine you will probably notice the redness of some maple buds, but thats about it. The grass just greened up yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Sweet pics from the Ontario folks. 42º for the high here today, -20º departure from the normal high for LAF on April 12. I'll take it as a birthday present. Complete with sleet. Sping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Enjoy the warmth on Sunday everyone south of I94. Looks like the NWS is predicting a 20 degree spread between Milwaukee and Chicago, again a warm front that makes it to near the border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted April 13, 2013 Author Share Posted April 13, 2013 Enjoy the warmth on Sunday everyone south of I94. Looks like the NWS is predicting a 20 degree spread between Milwaukee and Chicago, again a warm front that makes it to near the border. I only got a 57° forecasted with a SE wind, so it's not going to be that balmy. Definitely going to be better than the last 4 days though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Afterwords is in truncation so that is not a good timeframe much less 120+ which is prone to huge shifts. The turn to a permanent torch pattern that you've been calling for since mid/late February has to arrive at some point, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Looking forward to the 72 in the point for Sunday, but after that we go back into the freezer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Looking forward to the 72 in the point for Sunday, but after that we go back into the freezer. Yeah, for at least a week. At LEAST there isn't a greenland block this time. If there was, there would have been a nasty cold snap with highs in the 20s and lows in the single digits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Perry Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 The NAO was positive after the 16th... It keeps getting lower and further away and actually plummeting after the 20th to as low as -4. Could be looking at a few day period of highs near freezing if that verifies... Whew. Interesting to say the least for the end of April. Changes my perspective of "cold" in April! 50's seem amazing at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted April 13, 2013 Author Share Posted April 13, 2013 Day 4 of clouds comes to a close. 44/35 for today. 2.30" month to date now. Sooner or later these 40s will translate into 50s with the ever increasing sun angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Jonger - that's crazy! 30s for 1pm that would translate into around here, colder further east. --- Those are quite the ice pictures - especially the last one with broken power poles. I was going to give this post a facepalm but had second thoughts. Let try to remember that this is 200hr+ ploy you posted. Verification, especially at the 2m level is next to none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted April 13, 2013 Author Share Posted April 13, 2013 I was going to give this post a facepalm but had second thoughts. Let try to remember that this is 200hr+ ploy you posted. Verification, especially at the 2m level is next to none. Yeah I know. I was just showing what those 850mb's translate into in mid to late April. I think the 40s in the medium range will likely become 50s as we get closer. I wouldn't face palm anything over 144 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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