Steve Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Time to get the ball rolling...was going to wait untill tomorrow Oct 1st..but figured what the heck,let's get started!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 First in! Let's do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 1, 2014 Author Share Posted October 1, 2014 Highs in the 50's this weekend..pretty strong front going to move through Friday!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondo1000 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Getting tired of all the crazy predictions for this winter. I knew this would happen based on what happened last winter. Here's to more snow and less extreme cold around here. Looking forward to getting it going in here soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vespasian70 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 OK, it's Oct 1st. Time to really start discussing the upcoming winter. Perhaps now some of the predictions can start coming out of fantasy land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondo1000 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Looks like a nice little 5 day cold shot for Ohio Saturday forecast high keeps getting lower and lower! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 The next two and a half months are for fun speculation. In the meantime I'll take 50's and 60's, blue sky, and quiet until mid December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHweather Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 It feels awesome out there, 47 on campus a little after noon! There's been some frozen stuff with a couple of showers here since 11AM, probably small hail with surface temps only falling into the lower 40's under the showers, but it looks like sleet and is a direct result of it being cold enough in the low levels for these tiny showers to even produce anything frozen, so we'll call it "cool"...frost advisory for here tonight although with dews expected to fall into the upper 20's a freeze wouldn't shock me in this valley if winds can decouple for even a few hours late tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoraopolisWx Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 It feels awesome out there, 47 on campus a little after noon! There's been some frozen stuff with a couple of showers here since 11AM, probably small hail with surface temps only falling into the lower 40's under the showers, but it looks like sleet and is a direct result of it being cold enough in the low levels for these tiny showers to even produce anything frozen, so we'll call it "cool"...frost advisory for here tonight although with dews expected to fall into the upper 20's a freeze wouldn't shock me in this valley if winds can decouple for even a few hours late tonight. Same here a few minutes ago. Tried to get a video, but it sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHweather Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Same here a few minutes ago. Tried to get a video, but it sucked. I tried taking a picture of two ice pellets on my car, and that also sucked My roomate said it was enough to start covering the ground for a few seconds a bit before 11am, but I wasn't even looking outside. Eric Elwell tweeted a pic of either ice pellets or grauple nicely covering the ground in New Albany. Pretty cool for early October I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 The next two and a half months are for fun speculation. In the meantime I'll take 50's and 60's, blue sky, and quiet until mid December. Hardy har har. You'll be chomping at the bit for a major dump the day after Thanksgiving, just like the rest of us weenies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 My parents said they got sleet or graupel in Toledo. That's pretty remarkable for the date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 4, 2014 Author Share Posted October 4, 2014 We had some sleet and rain mixed with wet snow east of Newark this morning!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbcmh81 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 My mom's deck south of Columbus this morning. Looks like a sleet/hail mix to me. Edit: Port Columbus did record an official trace of snow today, which is extremely early. I'll post some stats here in a bit on early snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Same here a few minutes ago. Tried to get a video, but it sucked. Capturing precip is difficult on video with phones and low end cameras... My Galaxy S5 can do 4K resolution, I'm excited to try that out on a snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbcmh81 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Okay, so looking back, I can't actually find an earlier first trace of snow than what occurred today. Here are the top 10 earliest traces. 1. 10/4/2014 2. 10/10/1906 3. 10/12/1917 4. 10/12/1921 5. 10/14/1937 6. 10/16/1943 7. 10/16/2004 8. 10/19/1880 9. 10/19/1925 10. 10/20/1888 There are some very good winters in there and some very terrible ones, so not much can be said just based on this one metric. However, what happens if both the first trace of snow and the first measurable snow occur in October? Those years were: 1880, 1917, 1925, 1954, 1962, 1989, 1993 and 2012. Aside from 1954 and the latter half of 1989, this is an awesome list to be on in terms of snow and/or cold. So let's root for an accumulating snow this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 The next two and a half months are for fun speculation. In the meantime I'll take 50's and 60's, blue sky, and quiet until mid December. Completely agree with you. I am a pretty big winter enthusiast as I board, ski, and snowmobile. But I also enjoy all 4 seasons. I start cheering for winter around mid November to Mid March. Any other time I want sunny skies and warmth! There has only been one storm in October to get excited about as it was such an insane anomaly. That was the October 12th/13th 2006 storm where over 2 feet of heavy wet snow fell on fully leafed trees. The city and surrounding suburbs lost 75% of the total tree population. Such anomalies are not good for the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 My mom's deck south of Columbus this morning. Looks like a sleet/hail mix to me. Edit: Port Columbus did record an official trace of snow today, which is extremely early. I'll post some stats here in a bit on early snow. Yep, I was out, (in Upper Arlington), yesterday morning and I can confirm sleet, grapple (sp?), mix. Temp on my car thermometer dropped from 41 to 35 during this time too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Hardy har har. You'll be chomping at the bit for a major dump the day after Thanksgiving, just like the rest of us weenies. Well ok, I can't deny that from this point moving forward, if the models are showing a storm moving from the gulf to State College with an unseasonable cold airmass in place, my eyebrows, ears, and nips will all be at full perk. That being said, I'm not actually rooting for that scenario to unfold before December. Also,if we are going to get another January 5th, 2014 storm track, that crap better happen before December Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 My parents said they got sleet or graupel in Toledo. That's pretty remarkable for the date. I was in Toledo on Saturday for BOA Marching Band Regional and also witnessed the graupel. It was a miserable day all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I was in Toledo on Saturday for BOA Marching Band Regional and also witnessed the graupel. It was a miserable day all around. You need to update your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdudemike Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Well ok, I can't deny that from this point moving forward, if the models are showing a storm moving from the gulf to State College with an unseasonable cold airmass in place, my eyebrows, ears, and nips will all be at full perk. That being said, I'm not actually rooting for that scenario to unfold before December. Also,if we are going to get another January 5th, 2014 storm track, that crap better happen before December Yes let's get all of these systems like today out of the way before December! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Yes let's get all of these systems like today out of the way before December! This would be a total bummer in December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 enso...shmenso analogs....shmanalogs indices...shmindices this will be a very forgettable, average winter in Central Ohio...which will seem like a dud after last winter. Going with 24-28" for the season 1 decent storm of 6+", a couple of 3-5" events, and a few nickels and dimes. Will have to break out the snow blower twice. Average temps with maybe one short period of zero/subzero temps and a few warm spells. Spring breaks early and a hot summer follows. Book it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 enso...shmenso analogs....shmanalogs indices...shmindices this will be a very forgettable, average winter in Central Ohio...which will seem like a dud after last winter. Going with 24-28" for the season 1 decent storm of 6+", a couple of 3-5" events, and a few nickels and dimes. Will have to break out the snow blower twice. Average temps with maybe one short period of zero/subzero temps and a few warm spells. Spring breaks early and a hot summer follows. Book it Life in a city straddling the sub-tropic boundary. I'm joking... that's Cincinnati. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 so JB's winter forecast is out and he basically targets the Ohio Valley for greatest above normal snowfall departure (167%). The axis is a line from western TN to northern VT, right up the ohio river. Southeastern 2/3rd of Ohio included in this area. Interesting that this lines up very closely with OHweather's thinking, (I have more faith in his forecasting than JB's). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Now the season REALLY has started! first wxbell map posting of the 2014-15 season (10/29 00z euro)..... Congrats Mansfield, 5-8" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Yes! Thanks for starting my day out right buckeye. Hey, it could happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hard to believe that summer is long gone and we are now posting snowfall maps! Hopefully that wxbell subscription comes in handy this winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vespasian70 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 A good solid 2" across Licking county according to that wxbell map ... if only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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