cyclone77 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Man this new GOES-16 imagery has been spectacular to look at so far. You can see some amazing detail in certain images on various days. You can see the plume of steam blowing southwest off of the Byron nuke plant south of Rockford today. You can also see little streamers coming off the southern end of Lake Michigan. I like to rock the slider (on the bottom of the page) back and forth, as it lets you see things a bit easier than just looping it sometimes. http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=nrnil-02-48-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, cyclone77 said: Man this new GOES-16 imagery has been spectacular to look at so far. You can see some amazing detail in certain images on various days. You can see the plume of steam blowing southwest off of the Byron nuke plant south of Rockford today. You can also see little streamers coming off the southern end of Lake Michigan. I like to rock the slider (on the bottom of the page) back and forth, as it lets you see things a bit easier than just looping it sometimes. http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=nrnil-02-48-0 Thank you for this. Another add to my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Nice soaking rain overnight with several rounds of thunder. Raining hard again right now. Picked up 1.18" so far. May get another wave of decent rains around midday/early afternoon. This will really get the grass growing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Like the last big occluded system, I received the low end of the model qpf range, 0.76". Waterloo only got a half inch, so this general area got considerably less than what some models had falling. These occluded systems, with their spokes of energy pinwheeling around, make it difficult for models to pinpoint the best rain areas a day or two out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Lots of rain here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osubrett2 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Pretty distinct warm front draped/stuck across the sub, especially Ohio. Started the day at 49/33, currently 74/54 IMBY. Dare I say, almost too sticky? Just not used to it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 1.31" here for the 2-day total. Pretty much done now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Drought concerns a memory, picked up damn near 1" within the past 24 hours, with plenty of rain chances in the coming week. Lawn is looking good!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 10 minutes ago, Chambana said: Drought concerns a memory, picked up damn near 1" within the past 24 hours, with plenty of rain chances in the coming week. Lawn is looking good!! Another summer of mowing every 4 days on the way? You could almost watch the grass grow last summer with all the rain and high humidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 20 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: Another summer of mowing every 4 days on the way? You could almost watch the grass grow last summer with all the rain and high humidity. Oh tell me about it, last year was ridiculous. But coming from someone who does landscaping for a living, last summer was a mowers dream. Still early, but this potential El Niño could spark a cool summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 48 minutes ago, Chambana said: Drought concerns a memory, picked up damn near 1" within the past 24 hours, with plenty of rain chances in the coming week. Lawn is looking good!! Wow, that green grass and standing water sure looks nice! A couple more weeks of snow cover, and the sun can start working its magic here... A cool onshore flow today kept temps in the mid-30's and a few flurries around. Looks like the first mow isn't too far away there. My front yard today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 31 minutes ago, weatherbo said: Wow, that green grass and standing water sure looks nice! A couple more weeks of snow cover, and the sun can start working its magic here... A cool onshore flow today kept temps in the mid-30's and a few flurries around. Looks like the first mow isn't too far away there. My front yard today... I'm jealous of you during the core winter months. Seeing that heading into April? No thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Grass greened up today with all the dousing rain, despite temps in the 30s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 1 hour ago, Chambana said: I'm jealous of you during the core winter months. Seeing that heading into April? No thank you I hear ya man! It isn't easy sometimes, but you can't get 200"+ this far north and expect it to be gone by April 1st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Up to 1.87 here as of this moment for the day, breaks the record going back to 1922 which was 1.76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 7 minutes ago, Stebo said: Up to 1.87 here as of this moment for the day, breaks the record going back to 1922 which was 1.76 This winter season saw 6 record highs (Dec 26, Feb 18, 19, 22, 23, 24) and 2 record snowfalls (Dec 11, Mar 13), but this is the first daily record precip since Sept. 29th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 6 hours ago, cyclone77 said: 1.31" here for the 2-day total. Pretty much done now. Or not. Some decent rains have built back in again. Picked up another 0.11" in the last hour bringing the total to 1.42". Still coming down pretty good out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osubrett2 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 It took until yesterday, but March will (barely) end up warmer than February for CMH: February: 51.8/32.6 -- 42.2 (+9.4) March: 51.9/33.8 -- 42.8 (+1.0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 17 minutes ago, osubrett2 said: It took until yesterday, but March will (barely) end up warmer than February for CMH: February: 51.8/32.6 -- 42.2 (+9.4) March: 51.9/33.8 -- 42.8 (+1.0) Wow @ Feb down there!! Stats for MQT: January 25.4/11.8 -- 18.6 (+5) February 30.1/14.0 -- 22.0 (+6.5) March 31.9/15.8 -- 23.9 (-0.2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Finished with 1.95" of rain imby, very close to DTWs 1.97". Should see some more today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 March finished up at KLAN at exactly 0.0 @ 34.9F. I wonder when the last time I ever saw a perfectly normal month on the dot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 We're off to a roaring start precipwise here. Jan 4.51" (2.24) Feb 1.95" (2.05) March 4.22" (2.72) 2017 10.68" (7.01) +3.67" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 5 hours ago, IWXwx said: We're off to a roaring start precipwise here. Jan 4.51" (2.24) Feb 1.95" (2.05) March 4.22" (2.72) 2017 10.68" (7.01) +3.67" March was very wet around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 ORD finished +1.6 for the month. The only below average month out of the past 11 months was December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 DTW finished at 36.9F for March, which was a departure of -0.3F. At 36.9F in March and 38.0F in Feb, this was only the 6th time on record March was colder than February. March seemed to run unusually "warmer" than many surrounding areas at DTW on several days, so much of SE MI actually finished March 1.5-2 degrees colder than February. Detroit City airport finished a full 1.4 degrees colder than DTW in March. Its quite interesting how we have transformed from DET averaging 2-3 degrees warmer than DTW in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the 2000s it was down to about 1 degree warmer, and now all of a sudden in 2017 DET has averaged 1.2F COLDER than DTW. DTW is still a semi-rural area and when you look at the monthly roundups from DTX, which has probably 3 or 4 dozen stations listed, DTW is always the warmest with the occasional exception of Monroe. Not a fan of how UHI affects of the airport the climate sites like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 I find this VERY interesting. At Detroit... Only 6 of the last 24 months have been colder than normal. BUT...19 of the previous 26 months had been colder than normal. So in the past 50 months (Feb 2013-Mar 2017), exactly 25 months were colder than normal and 25 months were warmer than normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Finished with 3.32" for March. We needed it too, as Jan and Feb were pretty dry with 1.84/0.67" respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Yes it was wet here too, though it was not dry in Jan/Feb. March finished with 4.88" imby and 7.7" snow. DTW finished with 4.26" precip (11th wettest March) and 6.9" snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Many areas around here received near to slightly above avg rainfall in March. My total was 2.35". Our avg temp was 0.5 degrees above avg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 On 3/26/2017 at 3:00 PM, Hoosier said: NWS is really digging for something to classify as rare/record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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