on_wx Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Check out this light pillar that suddenly appeared following the snow tonight here in the ol' backyard. Must have been lots of suspended ice crystals following the clipper. About got frostbite shooting these as I was in flip-flops out in the back yard lol. Brilliant pics! One of the few times I've seen light pillars was about winter 2009 at a local hippy gathering at Waterloo Park to view a lunar eclipse. About a dozen, maybe more, of these pillars surrounded the park for a couple minutes during the eclipse, and the people high on something were losing it. Then I got smacked by a flaming stick of sage about a metre long. Perfect memories of a great light pillar experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 fire near MDW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 In and out of moderate to at times high end moderate snow this morning. 4" of fresh powder fell overnight. wnw flow to continue today with an additional 2", maybe a few 3-4" amounts scattered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Nice pictures cyclone. Is that a shadow of your weather station in the second pic? Picked up 0.6" of pure fluff from the overnight clipper flipper. Looks like winter again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Check out this light pillar that suddenly appeared following the snow tonight here in the ol' backyard. Must have been lots of suspended ice crystals following the clipper. About got frostbite shooting these as I was in flip-flops out in the back yard lol. Very cool pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Nice pictures cyclone. Is that a shadow of your weather station in the second pic? Picked up 0.6" of pure fluff from the overnight clipper flipper. Looks like winter again. Interesting that you had fluff. I also had 0.6", but pure sugar here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Thanks guys. Nice pictures cyclone. Is that a shadow of your weather station in the second pic? Picked up 0.6" of pure fluff from the overnight clipper flipper. Looks like winter again. Yep lol. Got down to -5 here this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 snow depth is back to around 2' again after the mini thaw. snow has let up and only expect mood snow the rest of the day. beautiful mid winter morning however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 For those with personal weather stations, have you found a big difference between the (high + low)/2 method versus integrating the daily temp? This has always been a big pet peeve of mine as the high + low method appears innacurate anytime you've got midnight highs erasing a days worth of cold air or conversely an 11:59 pm low erasing a days worth of warm temps. For my personal weather station, December had an average temp of 32.6 degrees using the integration method, however if you do the high + low method, the average drops to 32.0 degrees. That's a pretty significant difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 fire near MDW? KMDW 311551Z 25007KT 10SM FEW010 SCT080 SCT250 M13/M17 A3034 RMK AO2 SLP297 FU FEW010 T11331172 KMDW 311451Z 26009KT 10SM FEW010 SCT150 M14/M18 A3031 RMK AO2 SLP289 FU FEW010 T11441183 53030 KMDW 311351Z 29007KT 10SM FEW010 SCT250 M16/M19 A3026 RMK AO2 SLP271 FU FEW010 T11561189 Looks like there was one this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 KMDW 311551Z 25007KT 10SM FEW010 SCT080 SCT250 M13/M17 A3034 RMK AO2 SLP297 FU FEW010 T11331172 KMDW 311451Z 26009KT 10SM FEW010 SCT150 M14/M18 A3031 RMK AO2 SLP289 FU FEW010 T11441183 53030 KMDW 311351Z 29007KT 10SM FEW010 SCT250 M16/M19 A3026 RMK AO2 SLP271 FU FEW010 T11561189 Looks like there was one this morning. cool lots of people talking about cryoseism on skilling's fb page, naso sure if legit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Interesting pictures Cyclone. Reminds me of the airport lights that go in a circle at night. Or the type of lights they use for special events. Only -1° this morning. Clouds hung in for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDude Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 fire near MDW? There is a large brush fire in McCook. It's been going 3 days now. Almost entire south side smells like smoke. Yesterday it was really thick, looked like fog. Website is currently down but check it later: http://www.chicagoareafire.com/blog/2013/12/large-mulch-fire-in-mccook-12-28-13/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 WWA issued for snow and blowing snow! WESTERLY WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH WILL CAUSE SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW...REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE HALF MILE AT TIMES. Snow and wind, deep snow pack, appropriate beer... all ready to setle in for a cozy evening at home! Happy new Year everyone.... ENJOY YOUR STORM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFF Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 New years eve snow angle on the pool. Air temp 18 deg F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 WWA issued for snow and blowing snow! WESTERLY WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH WILL CAUSE SIGNIFICANT BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW...REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE HALF MILE AT TIMES. Snow and wind, deep snow pack, appropriate beer... all ready to setle in for a cozy evening at home! Happy new Year everyone.... ENJOY YOUR STORM photo.JPG lol. Where's that brewed? Somewhere in the upper lower? Happy New Year bo. Enjoy your brew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Wow....the event hasnt even started and we are already off to a good start. This mornings 0.6" of sugar was just about what I expected.....but a lake effect band this afternoon with a few bursts of moderate snow was not expected. Was very surprised when I walked out of work. Picked up a fresh 0.8" so total on the day was 1.4". At DTW, total snow today was 1.2" (0.6" clipper, 0.6" LES). Ground is solidly white once again...now onto the big show Happy New Year all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 9.3" total will be it, IMBY for this December. Hopefully we get double that in January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Sort of an interesting drive into work this morning. When I left it was -4 here, but the temp just outside of town dropped to as low as -11 on the truck thermometer. Then bounced back up to around zero a couple times. Then as I approached work I could see the usual trail of steam streaking away from the plant, but this morning it was literally producing snow. I've seen this happen many times on very cold mornings, but never got around to taking any pics. When I was walking in to the plant you could see the little ice crystals falling and glistening in the sun. Pretty cool. I guess we can call this Tyson-effect snow lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Made it to 14 today after starting at -5. Walked around a bit in the yard earlier. The bottom 3" of snow is now so dense and frozen that it supports your weight without much sinking in. A true glacier from the thaw/rain/freeze cycles over the past several weeks. It's gonna take a good long torch to get rid of that even though it's only 3" deep or so. The total depth is around 4", with the top inch or so dry fluff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 A few more hours of December left, but close enough. Overall a very cold month, with 9 subzero days. Blows away the last two seasons. The monthly precip total of 0.88" is a bit misleading, as we did get a little rain one day when there was still some snow in the rain gauge funnel. That eventually melted though, and drained through, so the total might not be too far off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Will post the final data after I find how much snow falls tonight, but I can say the month was -7.35° from normal! Tyson effect snow... as in Tyson Chicken? Pretty cool pics. That sort of thing can happen near the coal fired power plant in Kenosha and the north side of Racine on very cold mornings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Feeling like a post whore here lol. Might as well throw the yearly summary in too. Always fun to look back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Tyson effect snow... as in Tyson Chicken? Pretty cool pics. That sort of thing can happen near the coal fired power plant in Kenosha and the north side of Racine on very cold mornings. Nope, beef plant. We do cows too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 My final stats for December. Will post some yearly stats in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Coldest December at YYZ since 2000 with a mean temp of 24.4. But unlike December 2000, snowfall was just average this time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 The average maximum temperature was 6.4° colder than last December at FWA. Pretty good year-to-year variability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewers Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 The 19.3" of snow that fell this month at MKE is good enough for 15th snowiest December. Also the average temperature of 21 degrees ties for 25th coldest December since 1871. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 2013 at YYZ: Calendar year snowfall: 48.0" Rainfall: 40.26" (2nd wettest year behind 2008) Hottest Maximum Temp: 94.8F on July 19th Coldest Minimum Temp: -5.6F on January 23rd Mean Annual Temp: 47.3F Koppen Climate Classification: DFA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Too busy with todays snow to worry about Dec or 2013 stats....will work on that stuff this weekend....but December did finish with a temp departure of -3.3F at DTW after -4.0F in Nov. (In 2013, 7 of the 12 months had a negative temp departure). December saw 15.5" snow at DTW, which is the 18th snowiest December on record. I finished with 15.8" imby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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