cyclone77 Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Kind of cool out there today with gusty winds and temps in the upper 30s. Funny how quickly the mindset changes. A few weeks ago temps like this felt like a sauna lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 HPC from about 13hrs ago. New map should be coming out soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 IND going with an inch or less. Reasonable call at this point but think there's a chance for slightly higher amounts in the northern cwa. Timing looks pretty good...mostly evening/overnight which may help given that rates probably won't be that great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 22, 2014 Author Share Posted March 22, 2014 Yeah pretty cloudy here today too. Hovering around 38° right now. Looks like some clearing about 30 miles to the west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Picked up a couple inches last night. At this point will probably have snow until May unless April really warms up. Still have over 2' in my yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Love that piece of property^^^ Gorgeous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Love that piece of property^^^ Gorgeous! Thank You! Not to bad for a 29 year old I suppose. Saying I love living up here and where I do would be an understatement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 SN with an inch down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Picked up a couple inches last night. At this point will probably have snow until May unless April really warms up. Still have over 2' in my yard. really nice Josh! How far off the interstate are you there? -2 here this morning....thinking/hoping tonight will be the last below zero readings for the season, but as long as we maintain such deep snow, it isn't out of the question to have more, especially your area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 went for a walk this morning across the road to St. Claire Lake/Ellsworth River, The snow is hard packed about a foot on top of 3-4' of ice. a few pics I took. summer cottage summer cottage of course my yard, still buried. I can actually walk on top of all the snow and not sink at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 SN with an inch down Nice lake effect streamers. Looks to be shifting east now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 really nice Josh! How far off the interstate are you there? -2 here this morning....thinking/hoping tonight will be the last below zero readings for the season, but as long as we maintain such deep snow, it isn't out of the question to have more, especially your area. 1012145_606458486095419_283278922_n.png I am about a 1/2 West of I75. But the nearest intersection is about 4-5 miles North or South of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 What a cruel day. Full sun, blue skies ...almost no snow except shaded areas (and that is mostly ice)...yet all we can manage is 20F with a stiff (COLD!) wind... yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 Been sunny most of the morning here. Few clouds earlier when the LES made its closet pass. Glad there is no wind to speak of today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Home for the day in WB. Surprised how much snow there still is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimChgo9 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 It was weird watching this morning's lake effect snow. None fell out by me, it missed, literally by about 2 miles or so, with parts of Brookfield and other towns to my east getting a dusting or so. Sun was out, and Channel 7 was showing snow fall down down. I could go outside and see the clouds just east of me that were dropping the stuff. On to spring, I hope, after tomorrow's clipper.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Home for the day in WB. Surprised how much snow there still is WOW. Thats crazy. There arent really any woods here, but you can certainly tell there are a lot more patches of snow in the wooded sections alongside roads and the parks than there are in regular neighborhoods...but not like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 It's made it up to about 30° on my backyard thermometer. Impressive air mass, especially given there is no snow here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 23F here...wind is raw. All i care about (LaCrosse AFD) "A COOL SATURDAY IS FOLLOWED BY WHAT COULD BE THE FIRST 60S OFSPRING SUNDAY-MONDAY WITH MAJOR RIDGE BUILDING." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 19 with a 15 mph wind. doesn't feel too bad in the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Yet another odd quirk I have noticed that i can never recall seeing before. At pretty much any time of any winter, the rule of thumb is the snow piles are the last thing to go. Once again, not this winter. Well....plow piles obviously will be last to go...but Im talking shoveled piles. On many N-S facing streets, even most piles have melted or withered away to almost nothing (while the shady side still has piles). But yet the drifts are still stuck in the wooded areas, or shaded areas in the backyards, alleys, etc. So what does that tell you when a 6 foot snow pile exposed to sun goes before a snowdrift does? Obviously that the March sun does its thing no matter the airmass, but also that the assault of wind this winter had packed the snow into such immensely hard packed drifts that it leaves me to wonder what kind of snow depth we might have had if we DIDNT have the constant wind and drifting? Took this pic of neighbors yard today....as the last of the snow has slowly receded away, it has revealed grass that was basically bludgeoned from the weight of the deep winterlong snowpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 32 for a high here. Only a few scattered small piles here and there. Those were once huge mountains of snow. Looks like a dusting of snow tomorrow afternoon, and then we warm up in the longer range. Can't wait for this benign month to end. Hopefully we can get some good severe setups going in April. Warm front action in IL could get interesting.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 There's a few isolated pockets of snow in the most shaded wooded areas and a few remnants of drifts around - but even those are really small now. 95% of the snow is just in piles now (within a 20 mile radius). If anything falls tomorrow night and accumulates will be gone probably within 12 hours. Even after the cold night last night, the ground in sunny areas turned soft this afternoon. Very dull month outside of the first week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 There's a few isolated pockets of snow in the most shaded wooded areas and a few remnants of drifts around - but even those are really small now. 95% of the snow is just in piles now (within a 20 mile radius). If anything falls tomorrow night and accumulates will be gone probably within 12 hours. Even after the cold night last night, the ground in sunny areas turned soft this afternoon. Very dull month outside of the first week. I could not care less at this point about the bolded. And this is coming from the snowcover king. Its all about getting whatever we can get to break a 134 year old record and shut the old timers up for good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 I could not care less at this point about the bolded. And this is coming from the snowcover king. Its all about getting whatever we can get to break a 134 year old record and shut the old timers up for good! Lol. How much do you need? Nevermind - found it. 3.0" http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=dtx&storyid=100198&source=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Lol. How much do you need? Nevermind - found it. 3.0" http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=dtx&storyid=100198&source=0 Whats funny too is that all of these recent years weve been setting top 5 or top 10 snow records the public comments on what a harsh winter it is, but by the following Fall they are right back to that "weve had mild winters lately" or "when I was a kid" crap. But ever since the last snowstorm and the media hyping it up, thats now got everyones attention that we are 2nd snowiest winter just a few inches from #1. Never mind the fact thats its already the snowiest winter in any living persons lifetime for this area, or the fact that had Detroits records started in 1885 like many cities it would already be the "snowiest winter on record". The public are quite puppets when it comes to anything about the weather, so for the love of everything nature and all the bs tales of walking uphill to school when you were a kid, lets set the damn record any way we can! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Whats funny too is that all of these recent years weve been setting top 5 or top 10 snow records the public comments on what a harsh winter it is, but by the following Fall they are right back to that "weve had mild winters lately" or "when I was a kid" crap. But ever since the last snowstorm and the media hyping it up, thats now got everyones attention that we are 2nd snowiest winter just a few inches from #1. Never mind the fact thats its already the snowiest winter in any living persons lifetime for this area, or the fact that had Detroits records started in 1885 like many cities it would already be the "snowiest winter on record". The public are quite puppets when it comes to anything about the weather, so for the love of everything nature and all the bs tales of walking uphill to school when you were a kid, lets set the damn record any way we can! People like to exaggerate experiences they once had. I asked my dad about the 1970's winters and he always says it wasn't that memorable for snow. He thinks this past decade was way snowier than anything he remembers from the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Whats funny too is that all of these recent years weve been setting top 5 or top 10 snow records the public comments on what a harsh winter it is, but by the following Fall they are right back to that "weve had mild winters lately" or "when I was a kid" crap. But ever since the last snowstorm and the media hyping it up, thats now got everyones attention that we are 2nd snowiest winter just a few inches from #1. Never mind the fact thats its already the snowiest winter in any living persons lifetime for this area, or the fact that had Detroits records started in 1885 like many cities it would already be the "snowiest winter on record". The public are quite puppets when it comes to anything about the weather, so for the love of everything nature and all the bs tales of walking uphill to school when you were a kid, lets set the damn record any way we can! I've heard those stories all my life as well! I bet DTW gets to 95" or really close to it. --- On the moisture note as a whole, it's been a dry month for most of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimChgo9 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Weather is one of those things that actually very few people remember with decent accuracy. Some weather events stick out in my mind mainly because they were so unusual. (i.e. Winters of 77-78 and 78-79) The floods of 1993, GHD blizzard.) but, even now, 30 years later for some of this stuff, memories are not as clear as they used to be. In many cases I remember some weather events, just not the year they occurred. We had a bad ice storm, back when I was in high school. I don't remember if it was 1982, or 1983. Power was out for two days. I also remember a severe weather outbreak, where we had two nights of intense thunderstorms, which caused power outages, and even wires down on my block, may have been in the early 80's, perhaps '80 or '81. I also remember the Hillside Village Picnic being interrupted by some severe storms, high winds, hail and driving rain. I remember getting soaking wet and scared to death, perhaps in the mid 70's. I remember myriad days of cold, snow, storms, and tornado warnings from my youth, but, just can't remember the years. Sometimes, single events can, in our memories become distorted as to their actual impact. Back in 1979, it seemed to take forever for spring to arrive. I tend to remember it taking as long as mid-April for all of the snow to be completely gone, but that could just be my memory distorting the time frame. Same with the floods of 1993. I remember the constant cycle of thunderstorms, roughly every 4 or 5 days we were under a thunderstorm watch or warning. 20 years later, it defined the whole summer, but, I don't think that stormy pattern actually lasted more than a few weeks. I started keeping weather diaries back in 1997, for the sole purpose of having something to reference, when we started comparing "then and now" later in life. I kept them pretty much up to date through 2012... however, a hard drive crash last year destroyed all of that data (I never printed them out. I should have) so, now, I have no historical records of my own to go on, if I want to recall something from that time period. I think if all of us "old timers" were to spend some time going back to the years of our youth, and looking at some weather records from back then, we would probably be shocked at the accuracy of what we remember, and "remember". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Made it to 17° last night. A bit above guidance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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