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January 2018 Discussion


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1 hour ago, Jonger said:

It kind of sucks we don't have the same potential for lows on this side if Lake Michigan, but at least we get snow and snow preserving clouds.

 

Yeah it sucks that we don't get pipe bursting, water main breaking, car not starting type cold.

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Right now the dewpoint is -21, it's -16, and the snow crunches beneath your feet.  You gotta love the extremes we experience from season to season here in the MW.  In July a dew pushing 80 at this time of the night wouldn't be out of the question.  Precip wise the weather has been kind of disappointing the past few months, but weather always seems to find other ways to remain quite interesting. It's truly amazing, and fascinating to see how much the weather can change from one extreme to the other over the course of a season.  

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GOES-16 meso over Chicago shows the ice on Lake Michigan slowly floating away from the western shore this morning.  If you look closely you can see the eastern edges of the ice melt as it goes further out into the lake, particularly east of the WI/IL border.

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=meso-meso2-02-96-0-100

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Gonna have to keep an eye on that band of snow rolling south out of the upper MW.  HRRR is pretty consistent in maintaining it all the way to central MO/central IL by later tonight.  Looks like it could be a quick hitting burst of moderate to perhaps heavy snow that could lay down a quick half inch to an inch of fluff.  Fargo went down to 1/4 mile in heavy snow a short while ago.

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9 minutes ago, Chicago WX said:

Pleasant surprise this morning...snowing pretty hard at times...nice flakes too. Viva la winter.

We Chi town folks have fallen a long way when we get pumped on a band of snowshowers at 13 degrees. :unsure: LOT riding categorical pops for weekend system. Agressive for 4-5 days out.:yikes:

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On 1/1/2018 at 9:57 PM, Stebo said:

Yeah it sucks that we don't get pipe bursting, water main breaking, car not starting type cold.

Somehow, back in '94 the UP and NMI managed all of that list, and a ton of LES, so the lake wasn't ice, and it didn't stop THAT brutal stuff! 

On 1/2/2018 at 2:55 PM, roardog said:

Too bad Lake Erie isn't frozen over. It could have been a blizzard of '77 remake. lol

Per the NWS story, not only had it frozen over record early, but somehow had by their estimate 3 foot of snow on top of the ice, which blew into BUF and was more responsible for the massive drifts vs the estimated ~7" of new snow. Still scratching my head on how that much snow accumulated post freeze-up in an otherwise dry winter like we've had so far. But, I don't make history, just report it..

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Man the south has been killing it this year, seeing snow reports out of the south, Knightsville, SC has recorded 5” of already, not to mention some of these same areas got slammed back in December with  8-12” of snow. 

 

If this janury thaw thaw comes to fruition like JB and others have been talking, yikes. All depends on the MJO. January also happens to be our driest month the year. 

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