SchaumburgStormer Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Had a 10 degree jump today from 50 to 60 from 12 to 1pm when the sun peeked out. Tagged 64, looks like a good soaking coming overnight, and hopefully some severe tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Some nice thunder and a few brief downpours in the past 10 mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Heavy downpours started in the last few minutes with some low rumbling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachLB Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Just had some nice thunder and a little down poor of pea sized hail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chitown Storm Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Only made it to 46 here today. Had a nice soaker this morning with about .7" in the gauge. Grass sure did green up after the rain, but unlike some of you mine won't even have patches that need cutting for another few weeks I bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Ended up with 0.29" of rain this evening. Brings us up to 3.38" for the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Ended up with 0.29" of rain this evening. Brings us up to 3.38" for the month. .33" here tonight. As hard as it was falling, it certainly seemed like more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 We are about 1.40" away from the all time March record for rain at DTW. Right now we are at 4.24" which ties 1976 for 9th all time. Interesting list of months fall in the top 20 for rainfall at DTW, including March of 1913, 1938, 1956, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1998, and 2011. Need less to say a lot of heavy hitters in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 .33" here tonight. As hard as it was falling, it certainly seemed like more. Was sort of expecting more thunderstorm action tonight. Radar looks pretty quiet right now. Looks like this system will be pretty meh for this area, as tomorrow's action looks to fire well east. Timing with this system looked like trash for the DVN area regarding severe from the beginning, so no surprises there. I'm sure their office is fairly happy after just dealing with March 15th lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Was sort of expecting more thunderstorm action tonight. Radar looks pretty quiet right now. Looks like this system will be pretty meh for this area, as tomorrow's action looks to fire well east. Timing with this system looked like trash for the DVN area regarding severe from the beginning, so no surprises there. I'm sure their office is fairly happy after just dealing with March 15th lol. For sure. Some of my buddies at work will be inspecting hail damage from that storm for months. Got enough rain to water my fertilizer in. Hoping to get swiped by some action tomorrow, but the best focus looks south and east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 0.25" of rain through 1am here. It's getting quite breezy out there now. 2.77" of moisture here so far this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 We are about 1.40" away from the all time March record for rain at DTW. Right now we are at 4.24" which ties 1976 for 9th all time. Interesting list of months fall in the top 20 for rainfall at DTW, including March of 1913, 1938, 1956, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1998, and 2011. Need less to say a lot of heavy hitters in there. That would be funny if we got a few extreme downpours and broke that record. It doesn't surprise me we're so close with all the synoptic rain events we've had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 loving this wet spring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 narrow band of pretty wet snow developing here this morning. should see 4-5" today and at least that Saturday. Winter not letting go just yet. I like wet Spring too Alek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 What kind of rivers do you have there? Pool and riffle style with fairly narrow drainage basins? The rivers are fairly low gradient, meandering within low and wide valleys. Not so much riffle-pool style due to the relatively fine sediment load around here. Fairly consistent in terms of depth and flow. Rivers are shallowly entrenched within the valleys and can hop the banks with only a 2-3ft rise. For example, here's a flood-prone area in West Montrose on the Grand River. Note the very shallow banks. Here's a (low-res) photo I took when it was flooded. One particularly interesting feature is the Elora Gorge, which cuts through the underlying limestone of the Niagara escarpment The grand canyon of southern Ontario Its fun to tube down in the summer low-flow months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elora_Gorge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 The rivers are fairly low gradient, meandering within low and wide valleys. Not so much riffle-pool style due to the relatively fine sediment load around here. Fairly consistent in terms of depth and flow. Rivers are shallowly entrenched within the valleys and can hop the banks with only a 2-3ft rise. For example, here's a flood-prone area in West Montrose on the Grand River. Note the very shallow banks. Here's a (low-res) photo I took when it was flooded. One particularly interesting feature is the Elora Gorge, which cuts through the underlying limestone of the Niagara escarpment The grand canyon of southern Ontario Its fun to tube down in the summer low-flow months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elora_Gorge Nice illustrations. I was wondering how quickly your floods can develop there. There's some small drainage basins within high gradient ravines along the lake here and the floods can be "flashy". Now you go a short distance over to the Des Plaines River and its stream channel is a lot your streams, not cut deeply and the gradient is mostly shallow. You got the similar low banks that you find in Upper MN to the west by Fargo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 About to undergo an extreme temp fall here. 39° in Racine and 64° here currently. Edit: 45° and 1/2 mile visibility at ENW right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 For awhile late yesterday it looked like I may not get anything from this system, but a line of storms sank south just barely enough to hit the north half of Cedar Rapids. Several brief, but very intense downpours added up to 0.68". There was only a bit of light thunder at the start. I'm still looking forward to getting some big boomers. My March precip total is 2.73". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Added 0.54" so far which puts us at 4.78" and 5th place all time for the month of March. Still 0.85" away from the all time March record with the line of storms moving this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Picked up 0.68" of rain in the last 24 hours. 3.20" of total moisture this month. 5.4" of that was snow. Now it's cool and sunny out now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 .43" today, 3.20" since the 9th (that's when the weather station got replaced. Lost data for the first 9 days.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Some hailers ended up popping around the area this morning. Didn't expect that. Didn't see any where I was, but did get a decent downpour. Picked up 0.11" here at the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 5.5" of snow today. snow depth 15" IMBY but it's very local depending on elevation. forecast looks more like early December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 5.5" of snow today. snow depth 15" IMBY but it's very local depending on elevation. forecast looks more like early December. 3-31-16.png That's quite the forecast for early April! Is there any snow cover closer to Marquette? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 That's quite the forecast for early April! Is there any snow cover closer to Marquette? haven't been to Marquette in a while but looking at webcams, looks pretty bare. snow remaining only in the favored higher elevations of the Keweenaw (where there's 20" still) and Huron's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osubrett2 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 CMH finished March with an average temperature of 48.5F, which is +6.8F to average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Warm and wet was the story at Detroit in March. +5.9 temperature departure with 4.86" precip, +2.58" and good for a top 5 wettest March. Total snow was 7.4". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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