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November 2016 General Discussion


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  It has not only been warm this November it has been sunny as well. November it generally a very cloudy month here in West Michigan with GRR have on average only a 26% chance of sunshine, but this year so far in the first 11 days with have had 7 clear days and 3 partly cloudy days and only 2 cloudy days.  Last year GR had 6 clear days in the whole month of November in 2014 and 2013 there was 1 clear day each. In 2013 there was 0 clear days and in 2011 there were 5 clear days. And with the sun out today and several sunny days this week we look to have a much sunnier November than average here in Grand Rapids. BTW the sunniest November was in 1939 were 56.6% of possible sunshine was reported.

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While should turn colder for a while after next week and yes we even have a chance of seeing some snow. But snow in November is very common here, in fact only two November in Grand Rapids history have not had any reported snow fall. They were the back to back Novembers of 1906 and 1907.  Here in Grand Rapids there were 4 other winters with a Trace reported 1931, 1946, 1984 and 2001. And three November with 0.1” reported 1905, 1927, and 2010. All other November have had more than .2” of snow with the most being 31.0” in 2014 and 26.9” in 1951 for 2nd

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12z Euro drops the late week system down to 982mb over western MN Thursday night.  Huge blizzard over the western Dakotas.  Frontal system associated with it looks pretty benign until passing through the MS valley area.  You folks to the east could get some showers and storms.  Looks like a big bag of wind and a cool off here.  Still more exciting than the last 3-4 weeks.

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57 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

12z Euro drops the late week system down to 982mb over western MN Thursday night.  Huge blizzard over the western Dakotas.  Frontal system associated with it looks pretty benign until passing through the MS valley area.  You folks to the east could get some showers and storms.  Looks like a big bag of wind and a cool off here.  Still more exciting than the last 3-4 weeks.

Yeah, its Mid November. Let the cold and flakes fly! The last few runs of all models bring in enough cold for some snow from next weekend on. The AO goes negative.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao.sprd2.gif

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8 hours ago, slimjim101 said:

While should turn colder for a while after next week and yes we even have a chance of seeing some snow. But snow in November is very common here, in fact only two November in Grand Rapids history have not had any reported snow fall. They were the back to back Novembers of 1906 and 1907.  Here in Grand Rapids there were 4 other winters with a Trace reported 1931, 1946, 1984 and 2001. And three November with 0.1” reported 1905, 1927, and 2010. All other November have had more than .2” of snow with the most being 31.0” in 2014 and 26.9” in 1951 for 2nd

By looking at the GFS, you will have snow over the next 2 weeks.

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45 minutes ago, weatherbo said:

58 here... 19 degrees above the norm.  Feels like it's never going to snow. :D 

Wow, it was warmer up there than here today. I know that it's crazy, but I did put up some Christmas lights today so I wouldn't have to do it when it's cold. (Not lighting them up yet).

I must be missing something by not visiting the political thread per your sig.

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14 minutes ago, IWXwx said:

Wow, it was warmer up there than here today. I know that it's crazy, but I did put up some Christmas lights today so I wouldn't have to do it when it's cold. (Not lighting them up yet).

I must be missing something by not visiting the political thread per your sig.

Don't do it

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It has been not only mild this November it has also been much sunnier than average. Here in West Michigan we not have had 8 sunny days and 3 partly cloudy days. I can not recall such a sunny period in November.  Even with the cool down we are now so much above average (+7.0) that we should end the month above average. Of course, the expected big “turn around” is now being expected in December. While it may happen then or it could happen in January or February or it may not happen until March. While our string of above average months will end, I am not good enough to forecast when that will happen. But it will happen.

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GFS continues to bring the pain to the northern MW and Plains.  Dumps almost 2 feet of wind driven snow over northwest MN by Saturday.  45-55mph wind gusts along the heavy snow swath as well.  Very impressive baroclinic zone over MN Friday.  MSP area could be in the 60s, while a few hundred miles north/west will be in a full-on blizzard.  

Glanced at the GEM too for the heck of it, and got a nice laugh.  It completely blanks the areas the Euro and GFS have consistently dumped heavy snow on, and instead dumps the heavy snow from Iowa into Wisconsin. 

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9 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

GFS continues to bring the pain to the northern MW and Plains.  Dumps almost 2 feet of wind driven snow over northwest MN by Saturday.  45-55mph wind gusts along the heavy snow swath as well.  Very impressive baroclinic zone over MN Friday.  MSP area could be in the 60s, while a few hundred miles north/west will be in a full-on blizzard.  

Glanced at the GEM too for the heck of it, and got a nice laugh.  It completely blanks the areas the Euro and GFS have consistently dumped heavy snow on, and instead dumps the heavy snow from Iowa into Wisconsin. 

I saw the 12z global Gem as well. and damn, talk about a big shift. it wasn't too far off from the GFS. Further south, yes, but still not too far off. Then this run comes in, and wow talk about a dive south. it goes from blasting areas from the North shore to St Cloud to Alexandria to  Aberdeen; to like you said, go Ironwood to  Wausau to Rochester MN to Des Moines. Definitely have to not consider this Canadian Global run much more than weenie candy, unless the Euro pulls a surprise in this upcoming run.

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11 minutes ago, Jim Marusak said:

I saw the 12z global Gem as well. and damn, talk about a big shift. it wasn't too far off from the GFS. Further south, yes, but still not too far off. Then this run comes in, and wow talk about a dive south. it goes from blasting areas from the North shore to St Cloud to Alexandria to  Aberdeen; to like you said, go Ironwood to  Wausau to Rochester MN to Des Moines. Definitely have to not consider this Canadian Global run much more than weenie candy, unless the Euro pulls a surprise in this upcoming run.

The GFS has been sinking the heavy snow further south over the last several runs since 0z. Not nearly to the extent the GEM is, but there is a trend. Should be a fun few days of model watching. But you're right, the 12z GEM is pure candy at this point. 

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