beavis1729 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 22 hours ago, Hoosier said: I'm going to call Thursday a beavis day. Looks like snow will be falling in Chicago during the daylight hours... maybe some accumulations if temps cooperate. Still seeing sub-510 thicknesses in central and northern MN/WI on some models for Friday 4/6...has to be a -3 to -4 SD event if it materializes. Normals for Thursday 4/5 at ORD are 55/35. My daughter has softball practice that day...ha. Bring it on. Here are current records for ORD. From what it looks like now, the low max on 4/6 has the greatest chance of being broken. Will need snow cover to break the record lows...which is highly uncertain at this time. April 5: record low 18 (1995); record low max 31 (1982) April 6: record low 15 (1982); record low max 32 (1982) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 12z Euro has around 0.6" of frozen QPF over the next 10 days at ORD...a slight uptick from the 00z run. And, as the sun sets on Friday 4/6, it shows temps in the low 20s. Wow. Around 1.0" frozen QPF from Madison to Milwaukee. Obviously it's a 10-day prog...and even if it were to occur verbatim, I'm not expecting more than half of the frozen QPF to stick. But even 2-4" accumulation on grassy surfaces this late in the season would be impressive. Makes you realize how impressive April 1982 was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 9 minutes ago, beavis1729 said: 12z Euro has around 0.6" of frozen QPF over the next 10 days at ORD...a slight uptick from the 00z run. And, as the sun sets on Friday 4/6, it shows temps in the low 20s. Wow. Around 1.0" frozen QPF from Madison to Milwaukee. Obviously it's a 10-day prog...and even if it were to occur verbatim, I'm not expecting more than half of the frozen QPF to stick. But even 2-4" accumulation on grassy surfaces this late in the season would be impressive. Makes you realize how impressive April 1982 was. The Thursday system has some decent frontogenesis/banded signals. I am thinking it will snow hard enough for some accumulations despite marginal temps/time of day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Looks like we'll finally break the snow drought Thursday night. Probably just an inch or two but enough to get us over 40" for the season. Then the D7 threat, whatever becomes of that. And then, mercifully...spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Conditions were about as bad as they can get for April around here today. Mid to upper 30s all day with persistent drizzle and heavy drizzle. A few days ago the Euro was showing a soaking rain event for the DVN cwa, but it was far from that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Been in the upper 30s here too but so far 2 hours of thunderstorms with more coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 00z NAM weenie banding far northern IL/southern WI and eastward pretty good on Thu into Fri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Went ahead with a thread to cover Thursday-Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Ripping snow pretty nicely right now. Ground has whitened up in the past 15 mins or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Lake effect snow, wind, cold... high today of 22 forecasted, with winds gusting to 30 at times should keep wind chills in the single digits today. I know cold is common in April but the persistence this year is impressive. Unless something changes mid-month, should see seasonal snow pack hang on until around May this year. Winter not letting go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Picked up 0.3", which brings us to 37" even for the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondo1000 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Last 24 hours in central Ohio- Flooding rain, thunderstorms, sun, hail, couple of tornadoes reported, high winds, snow flurries. Incredible weather for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachLB Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Finished with 3.24 inches of rain for Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Got about 4 inches of snow with last night's defo. band and lake effect snow this morning. Snow showers ongoing. Reading endless posts of friends complaining about "winter" today on Facebook amuses me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 60-70 Mph winds here. Toledo is about to hit 0" depth. Crazy stuff. Totally ready for spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 0.2” of snow at ORD last night, and 0.5” here.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 The Paxton, IL low temperature from a couple days ago will be reviewed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Around the corner from my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roardog Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 How far north has spring green up started? There's nothing even close to green grass here yet .It's covered in snow today but under it, it's still completely brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 20 minutes ago, roardog said: How far north has spring green up started? There's nothing even close to green grass here yet .It's covered in snow today but under it, it's still completely brown. Grass is a mix of brown and green here. Trees are not even close to leafing out though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Had 0.89" of rain yesterday, including some thunder. Wind whipped snow squalls today produced 0.1" of snow imby, although it was more like 0.4" at my work. Wind gusted well into the 40s mphs so it literally feels like the middle of Winter outside as snowflakes continue to dance through the air in between the heavier squalls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Hurricane force wind gust in our area, best wind storm in awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 6 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said: Hurricane force wind gust in our area, best wind storm in awhile. Seems like the Buffalo area is in a good spot to get these big windstorms every so often... deepening lows on a track like this which results in the flow coming in right off Lake Erie (less friction). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 23 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Seems like the Buffalo area is in a good spot to get these big windstorms every so often... deepening lows on a track like this which results in the flow coming in right off Lake Erie (less friction). Yeah sw winds are like a funnel right towards the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 I am surprised that we have not lost much snow at all today considering it is April. As long as it continues to stay overcast with snow showers, I think we'll be able to make it through the whole day with several inches of snow on the ground. Looks like December! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Duluth and INL have both had at least a Trace of snow cover since October 27. So, today is Day 160 of the streak. Duluth still has 7" of snow on the ground, and INL has 10". Given the ongoing cold temps, the snow cover will probably remain for at least 7 more days. Although each individual location may have had a longer duration of Trace+ snow cover...this is probably close to a record streak for both towns simultaneously. The only winters close to this streak were probably 1995-96 or 1996-97. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Crazy seeing these flurries with heavy winds in early April. Just absolutely awful weather, cannot believe the utter lack of spring up here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 The OP should remove all of the tags for this thread except "storms", especially "spring" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Very impressive snow event up here yesterday. Rare to get accumulations such as this during the daytime, had this been midwinter could have easily been bigger then the 1/25 storm. MSP officially finished with 9” putting us over 60” on the season and above the annual average. Probably 5” snowdepth with the April sun is doing serious work. Looking ahead we probably will hold onto this snow through the weekend with record cold and more snow chances. Midwinter feel again and I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHweather Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 It’s been snowing off and on all day here, and has at times come down hard enough to start whitening things up a bit. It’s been mostly graupel but dendrites have been thrown in at times too. With the strong winds just an amazingly awful day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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