CheeselandSkies Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 4 hours ago, Central Illinois said: I'm pretty sure most of the forum is under 10" at this point unless you live in WI/MI Quote ..THE MADISON WI CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 4 2018... VALID TODAY AS OF 0500 PM LOCAL TIME. CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1871 TO 2018 WEATHER ITEM OBSERVED TIME RECORD YEAR NORMAL DEPARTURE LAST VALUE (LST) VALUE VALUE FROM YEAR NORMAL .................................................................. TEMPERATURE (F) TODAY MAXIMUM 18 1216 AM 55 1890 28 -10 30 MINIMUM 9 1202 PM -23 1965 12 -3 6 AVERAGE 14 20 -6 18 PRECIPITATION (IN) TODAY 0.08 1.47 1986 0.04 0.04 T MONTH TO DATE 0.32 0.17 0.15 T SINCE DEC 1 2.73 3.14 -0.41 4.79 SINCE JAN 1 2.00 1.40 0.60 2.76 SNOWFALL (IN) TODAY 1.4 6.0 1903 0.4 1.0 T MONTH TO DATE 4.3 1.7 2.6 T SINCE DEC 1 18.2 28.1 -9.9 33.8 SINCE JUL 1 18.5 32.2 -13.7 33.8 SNOW DEPTH 3 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TODAY 51 45 6 47 MONTH TO DATE 194 180 14 194 SINCE DEC 1 2900 2914 -14 2776 SINCE JUL 1 4259 4493 -234 3798 COOLING TODAY 0 0 0 0 MONTH TO DATE 0 0 0 0 SINCE DEC 1 0 0 0 0 SINCE JAN 1 0 0 0 0 .................................................................. If you'd told me Madison was still below 10" (at least going into this weekend), I'd have believed you. We've had so many inch here, 1/2" there snowfalls followed by suppressing deep freeze, followed by a thaw, we've spent the vast majority of this winter with bare or nearly bare ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 7 hours ago, Chinook said: Here's a pretty interesting picture. I have seen sun dogs before, but never with blowing snow, only with cirrus clouds. The mechanism is the same with cirrus clouds and blowing snow. Winds get the ice crystals (ice plates work the best) all oriented in the same direction/plane. Actually the blowing snow works the best just because it is closer to us observers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Now that we're back to snow I'm over it. Living downwind of the lakes is not all it's cracked up to be. It's always snowing, even if it's just 1-4" a day. A significant lake effect outbreak must be a huge headache. The roads are always snow covered, the car needs to be cleaned every time you need to go somewhere, and the driveway always needs shoveling. Lake effect is more like a nuisance snow than an exciting snowstorm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Okay, I have my deepest snowpack since 2/7/15 (6") and hoping to build on it and now this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackstraw Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Yep, and around here the models are splitting everything until Sun with us in the middle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 It just hurts knowing that this event could have been decently noteworthy(and was modeled that way even yesterday) but the overnight and today runs are trending awfully towards "marginal" warning event at best. It still is a warning snow I guess........ better than WI or IWX can say, so I should probably stop whining and take what I can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I am so ready to put this winter out of its misery, but this thing is going to linger well into March, me thinks. Some more incredible stats for CMI. last 7” snowfall was 3/1/15 last 5” or greater was 3/1/15 last WSW was 2/24/16 and a major bust A brief warmup of 42 degrees tomorrow, just enough to melt our measly 2” snow depth and reset the landscape to bare ground again. I hope Chicago peeps enjoy the 10-14” of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geddyweather Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 On 2/4/2018 at 3:03 PM, Hoosier said: Here are some maps, Snowless in Carrollton Seeing these while being on the sharp southern cutoff of this MI storm is like dangling a carrot in front of a rabbit. PLZ COME BACK SOON SPRING & SVR SEASON I BEG YOU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Let’s play spot the screw hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 At least you're ahead of extreme Northern Alabama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Chambana said: Let’s play spot the screw hole. Need a nice panhandle hooker, wipe out all those biggies from Lubbock to IL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 6 hours ago, Hoosier said: The WRF "family" I will call it, came in pretty wet. So it's pretty obvious that LOT is leaning toward the wetter hi-res and global output. Lol. I didn't want to clutter up the storm thread, but I also call it the WRF family (We Are Family, Sister Sledge from the '70's, look 'em up). Man I'm old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Thankful in a way that much of this is occurring overnight. I might've gone a little crazy watching the southern cutoff for hours on end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Illinois Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 10 hours ago, Chambana said: Let’s play spot the screw hole. I'm glad we get to keep the streak going instead of ILX issuing a possible borderline warning that would've busted high like they were talking last night for Marshall and Stark counties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 This event ended up being a bit disappointing, but I'm pretty happy with how Feb has gone so far. Definitely blowing Jan out of the water. With today's 1.2" we're now up to 7.3" for the month already. Should get another inch or so tomorrow night, and again Sat night. Baum's prediction of a foot plus for this month is looking pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlliniWeather Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 10 hours ago, Chambana said: Let’s play spot the screw hole. Sigh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 17 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: This event ended up being a bit disappointing, but I'm pretty happy with how Feb has gone so far. Definitely blowing Jan out of the water. With today's 1.2" we're now up to 7.3" for the month already. Should get another inch or so tomorrow night, and again Sat night. Baum's prediction of a foot plus for this month is looking pretty good. New euro has a few inches falling on you Friday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 20 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said: New euro has a few inches falling on you Friday night. Yeah looks like both of us could have a nice little refresher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Remember those times when we hit modeled snowfall totals? Or.... *gasp* overperformed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naptown Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 18 hours ago, Chambana said: Let’s play spot the screw hole. Did Indianapolis/Marion County have a Winter Storm Warning this year? I know south of the Indy area had one. We've had several advisories here but I don't recall being under a warning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Looks like the Cedar Rapids area is riding the edge tonight as well. I’m sure this event will find a way to sag south with time as opposed to north like the last one. This entire event has been a massive letdown out here so far. Sick of riding the edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Can I join this thread? I got 6” last night, but will be low for LOT as I watch a great line go south today after watching the line go north last night. good amount of frustration and grumbling around here regarding this busted forecast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 1 minute ago, SchaumburgStormer said: Can I join this thread? I got 6” last night, but will be low for LOT as I watch a great line go south today after watching the line go north last night. good amount of frustration and grumbling around here regarding this busted forecast At least you got warning criteria, we didn’t even get that. Tonight’s snow looks like another glancing miss to the southeast. This is the biggest Cedar Rapids screwjob that I can remember in quite some time. Literally everything is avoiding us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 1 minute ago, NWLinnCountyIA said: At least you got warning criteria, we didn’t even get that. Tonight’s snow looks like another glancing miss to the southeast. This is the biggest Cedar Rapids screwjob that I can remember in quite some time. Literally everything is avoiding us. Definitely. But just brutal to get photos from 20 miles north and 20 miles south with significantly higher accumulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 19 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said: Definitely. But just brutal to get photos from 20 miles north and 20 miles south with significantly higher accumulation Nature of the beast when you have essentially a 2 or 3 county-wide train of snow trucking through the sub. Gonna be a lot more heartbreak than glory. We just went through it in Ohio, (albeit smaller amounts), CMH lucked out but literally 1 county south or couple counties north got screwed. This forum is overdue for a widespread snowstorm. I'm talking an arctic high in place getting attacked by a G.O.M. qpf bomb. Ala January '99.... double digit snows from the eastern OV to the Missippi River and lower great lakes. Instead we have these weak waves running boundaries with a 25 mile wide swath of snow on the edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Torching away at 48 degrees, good riddance snow, landscape reset to bare ground (damn near) at this point I want no more snow to stat pad what has been a boring winter. Sorry guys, im bitter and starved for a good 6-10” storm. Don’t mean to constantly complain. But I have good reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 17 minutes ago, Chambana said: Torching away at 48 degrees, good riddance snow, landscape reset to bare ground (damn near) at this point I want no more snow to stat pad what has been a boring winter. Sorry guys, im bitter and starved for a good 6-10” storm. Don’t mean to constantly complain. But I have good reason. The snowpack if I can call it that was pretty fragile here. Today's modest temperatures and partly cloudy sky killed all but the man-made piles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 4 hours ago, Chambana said: Torching away at 48 degrees, good riddance snow, landscape reset to bare ground (damn near) at this point I want no more snow to stat pad what has been a boring winter. Sorry guys, im bitter and starved for a good 6-10” storm. Don’t mean to constantly complain. But I have good reason. Holy crap! I didn't realize that level of warmth had made it that far north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Made it up to 40° here. My 5.3" overperformer is down to scraps. On top of that, I get 0.2" from the current system. Maybe I can get a couple of inches Sunday, which will be gone a couple of days later. The state advertising slogan should be, "Indiana-Winter Hell". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Would be nice if for once, just once, we can get a nice Gulf/Texas Low. I can't even remember the last time we had one. I don't think we will get one this winter, maybe next year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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