Stebo Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, weatherbo said: Brief clearing today between lake snow Somewhere there is a house back there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Possible storm for Wednesday (Feb. 20th) - Is a discussion thread needed for upper Midwest? I am not sure. I usually don't start threads for you guys. It seems as though the models are beginning to agree on snowfall >3" in Iowa, possibly over 6" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 39 minutes ago, Chinook said: Possible storm for Wednesday (Feb. 20th) - Is a discussion thread needed for upper Midwest? I am not sure. I usually don't start threads for you guys. It seems as though the models are beginning to agree on snowfall >3" in Iowa, possibly over 6" We have it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 1 hour ago, weatherbo said: Brief clearing today between lake snow Your roof looks like it was not cleared just a week ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoalCityWxMan Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 3 hours ago, weatherbo said: Brief clearing today between lake snow How do you even get around at this point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Most back roads up here that aren't seasonal are plowed, just narrow. I suspect once the Marquette road commission is caught up in towns, they’ll then come back through and push the snow back, further widening the roads. My road is basically a path still... haha! Snow's too deep to sled, too deep to snowshoe, just these massive walls everywhere. Spent hours yesterday clearing the seasonal roof snow away from the house that we shoveled off last week, which is basically like packed avalanche snow.... and looks like several inches fell while I was sleeping. Just constant snow removal this month and it looks to keep falling through the rest of the month with regularity. 6 hours ago, CoalCityWxMan said: How do you even get around at this point? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 5 hours ago, weatherbo said: Most back roads up here that aren't seasonal are plowed, just narrow. I suspect once the Marquette road commission is caught up in towns, they’ll then come back through and push the snow back, further widening the roads. My road is basically a path still... haha! Snow's too deep to sled, too deep to snowshoe, just these massive walls everywhere. Spent hours yesterday clearing the seasonal roof snow away from the house that we shoveled off last week, which is basically like packed avalanche snow.... and looks like several inches fell while I was sleeping. Just constant snow removal this month and it looks to keep falling through the rest of the month with regularity. I was away on a little trip with the family last week but when got back home was pretty surprised to see how much LES we received last week. I would say average depth is around 36" with other areas well into the 40" around the property. I will admit I had given up on this winter with the early season woes and being almost 35" down on this season but this second half has really been something. Oddly enough i am ready for spring, LES guns are not going to be firing at full anyhow with the growing Ice Pack on the lakes. Looking at the next ferw weeks still looks pretty set in full winter mode for most of the upper Midwest. Edit: Gazing at today's satellite, looks like there is much more open water than this graphic depicts which is not all that uncommon, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoboy645 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 I just saw an interesting graphic on the local new this morning. Apparently Madison has reported snow 24 out of the last 31 days and 36.7" of snow in that time span. That means here we probably have had 45+" snow in the last month.That's bleeping crazy. To put in perspective we had 45" total last year and didn't even hit that the winter before. The only reason we don't have an LES belt-like snow pack is that we've had 2 major thaws in that period too. We'd probably be talking top-10 snowiest winter if we had an even average snowfall in December and Early January. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 7 hours ago, josh_4184 said: I was away on a little trip with the family last week but when got back home was pretty surprised to see how much LES we received last week. I would say average depth is around 36" with other areas well into the 40" around the property. I will admit I had given up on this winter with the early season woes and being almost 35" down on this season but this second half has really been something. Oddly enough i am ready for spring, LES guns are not going to be firing at full anyhow with the growing Ice Pack on the lakes. Looking at the next ferw weeks still looks pretty set in full winter mode for most of the upper Midwest. Edit: Gazing at today's satellite, looks like there is much more open water than this graphic depicts which is not all that uncommon, There's still plenty of open water. Twin Lakes area received 30-36" a few days ago because the ice shifted and a crack opened. Northern Lakes are freezing quickly, however.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Seasonal snowfall accumulation to date. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 5 hours ago, cyclone77 said: Seasonal snowfall accumulation to date. That map looks pretty good around here. Just hit 30" with the recent snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Pretty impressive temp drop-off from Chicago to areas outside of the big city. Midway currently a balmy 27 while it's already down to 1 above at Aurora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 3 minutes ago, cyclone77 said: Pretty impressive temp drop-off from Chicago to areas outside of the big city. Midway currently a balmy 27 while it's already down to 1 above at Aurora. Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 10 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Wow Just noticed there's still some clouds hanging over parts of the city. Still pretty impressive. It's amazing how bright it looks out there tonight with the full moon and fresh snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 8 degree difference between mby and DKB. Impressive for <5 miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEiowaWX Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 6 hours ago, cyclone77 said: Seasonal snowfall accumulation to date. Picked up 4.2" on this last storm bringing our total since Nov 1st to 58.1". Record for Ottumwa is 63.9" in 1977-1978. Certainly looks like we're going to break it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 got down to at least -5 at 7 am this morning. May have squeaked out a -6 in between hours. Already up to 7 two hours later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoboy645 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Yeah got down to -6 here. It was really weird though, we had fog at -4 degrees. That's pretty rare I would think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 On January 11th my season snow total was 3.9". On February 20th my total is 47.7". This has been the snowiest period of that length on record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 Forgot to post this picture of the moon from last night. Was in the right place at the right time to capture this shot. Crappy cell phone pic... it looked better in person. Been a while since I've seen it look so spectacular and so low in the sky. A casual observer might be tempted to think they are looking at the setting sun. However, you would expect the color of the surrounding sky to look different. Also, this shot is facing east, not west. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 26 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Forgot to post this picture of the moon from last night. Was in the right place at the right time to capture this shot. Crappy cell phone pic... it looked better in person. Been a while since I've seen it look so spectacular and so low in the sky. A casual observer might be tempted to think they are looking at the setting sun. However, you would expect the color of the surrounding sky to look different. Also, this shot is facing east, not west. What did you film this with, a potato? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 5 hours ago, Hoosier said: Forgot to post this picture of the moon from last night. Was in the right place at the right time to capture this shot. Crappy cell phone pic... it looked better in person. Been a while since I've seen it look so spectacular and so low in the sky. A casual observer might be tempted to think they are looking at the setting sun. However, you would expect the color of the surrounding sky to look different. Also, this shot is facing east, not west. I noticed the "snow moon" the other night too. I took this pic. It was much higher in the sky when i took the pic then your shot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Lol at APX, not over anything relevant but did enjoy their humor this morning. Quote Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Gaylord MI 637 AM EST Thu Feb 21 2019 .NEAR TERM...(Today through Tonight) Issued at 310 AM EST Thu Feb 21 2019 ...Spotty nuisance precip... High impact weather potential...none. All hail the NAM! (Don`t say /that/ very often.) 1003mb surface low is tracking a bit north of the Sault early this morning, as successfully forecast (24 hours ago) by the Nam and no other model. An associated cold front is moving across ne lower MI, and cold advection is underway across most of northern MI with gusty wsw surface winds. There is a total lack of mid/high clouds over northern MI per satellite, but plenty of low clouds. Cyclonically-curved low level flow is contributing to continued light snow in parts of eastern upper MI. In northern lower, upsloping is also a contributing factor, with spotty light snow showers/drizzle/freezing drizzle. Precip trends are the primary concern. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Season total stands at 16.1” my father who lives 20 miles south has had 13.5”. After the 33 degree rain once again yesterday, I am ready to put this winter out of its misery. Buying a ticket for a big dog has just been impossible to do here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 Pretty impressive coverage of the High Wind Watch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Gorgeous Day today with sun and pretty light winds. Another stinker of a weekend on tap. Second weekend in about 4 where the snow will get nuked. Lets see if my MI Snow Freak pile can hold up. I'll be glad to have the walkway clear of the ice though! Wish the Feb sun could have done work there this week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Couple decent sunsets this week. Failed on the second one with the sun trying to peek out after the ice event - or maybe it was the day after, shrugs. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Two yrs ago we had a record high of 71 on this date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 Wind potential still looks rather impressive on the 00z runs. I think you could even argue for a window of 60-65 mph gusts in the LOT cwa (and elsewhere) with a prolonged period of 50+ mph gust potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterStorm294 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 GFS and FV3 are showing a 3-5" type event for next Wednesday, but the Euro has been much less bullish. Could be a nice refresher after the rain wipes out the remaining snowpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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