beavis1729 Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Assuming there wasn't an intra-hour bump, today's high of 9 at RFD sets a new record for the coldest max temp so late in the season. Normal high is 41. Other notable cold highs: 9 on 3/2/2014 10 on 3/8/1932 11 on 3/9/2003 12 on 3/17/1941...probably the most impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 50 minutes ago, beavis1729 said: Assuming there wasn't an intra-hour bump, today's high of 9 at RFD sets a new record for the coldest max temp so late in the season. Normal high is 41. Other notable cold highs: 9 on 3/2/2014 10 on 3/8/1932 11 on 3/9/2003 12 on 3/17/1941...probably the most impressive Rockford did get to 10 intrahour. Chicago's high of 12 broke the daily record low max of 17 in 1890. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 We have been consistently getting payback for Morch. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 4 hours ago, Chambana said: We have been consistently getting payback for Morch. I am just hoping to be able to watch the masters this year without snowflakes flying outside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 This cold wave has been impressive. Not only did we break the record with a low of -3 yesterday, we also broke the record high min with a reading of 11. This is the coldest high min reading in Champaign for the month of March since records began in 1888. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1038 AM CST TUE MAR 5 2019 ...RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES SET ON MONDAY, MARCH 4... ANTIGO: 4 (old record 12 in 2002) MARSHFIELD: 4 (old record 13 in 2015) WAUSAU: 4 (old record 11 in 1916) MERRILL: 5 (old record 9 in 1928) STURGEON BAY: 5 (old record 10 in 2002) MANITOWOC: 6 (old record 14 in 1884 & 1888) WISCONSIN RAPIDS: 6 (old record 12 in 1932) APPLETON: 7 (old record 12 in 1917) OSHKOSH: 7 (old record 15 in 2002) RHINELANDER: 7 (old record 10 in 2002) STEVENS POINT: 7 (old record 11 in 2015) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 0.2" of snow at ORD and 0.1" here this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackstraw Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Nice model battle setting up for the Thurs\Fri system in IA and central IL/IN/OH. GFS/FV3/12kNAM all with advisory level 3-5 inches (up to warning criteria in IA), GEM/3KNAM/EURO with a whiff. IA gets the most love from all of them, imagine that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Last measurable snow was back on Feb 17th. Unless something substantial happens in the final few weeks of March the all-time snowfall record at MLI looks safe. Looked quite beatable the way things were going 3 weeks ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 A cold brisk breeze the last few days has been quite invigorating. Off and on lake snow squalls have periodically left fresh dustings. The March sun angle has been no match for the feel of deep winter cold, but its clear that this will be about it for big cold until next winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackstraw Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 I hope the NAM is right then I'm done w/ winter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConvectiveIA Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Excited about a nice little snowstorm likely to affect us tomorrow here. It might be one of our last here. I expect 2-3 inches imby. This has been a pretty amazing winter but I’m ready for spring and summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 21 hours ago, cyclone77 said: Last measurable snow was back on Feb 17th. Unless something substantial happens in the final few weeks of March the all-time snowfall record at MLI looks safe. Looked quite beatable the way things were going 3 weeks ago. Yeah. The snow season appears to have ended on February 20th. It's going to be generally cold for a while longer, but models have no snow here other than a dusting tomorrow. This was certainly a memorable season. We received 4 ft of snow, nearly all of it in a 5 1/2 week period. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 1 hour ago, hawkeye_wx said: Yeah. The snow season appears to have ended on February 20th. It's going to be generally cold for a while longer, but models have no snow here other than a dusting tomorrow. This was certainly a memorable season. We received 4 ft of snow, nearly all of it in a 5 1/2 week period. That was quite the stretch for you guys. We had a nice run during that period as well, but not quite as good as that. We benefited from that late November blizzard though. Despite the 5 week lull from late Nov to Jan 11, and the abrupt end to the snow season this will likely go down as my favorite winter. '14-'15 was excellent, but we failed to acquire a warning criteria event. The extreme wind chills and all-time cold both topped what we saw in that winter as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Oh look, it's snowing again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Wanted to share 2 pics from yesterday. One was a beautiful sunrise. The other I thought was funny...this one mall, they haul and dump all the snow in the back (rather than pushing it into piles like everyone else). So its a sea of unsightly dirty and ancient snow from the entire winter. With a bit of fresh snow it actually gave the optical illusion of a mountain range 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 9 hours ago, Stebo said: Oh look, it's snowing again Picked up almost a foot of new snow the last few days, much was not forecasted. Ready for spring to start any day now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 11 hours ago, cyclone77 said: That was quite the stretch for you guys. We had a nice run during that period as well, but not quite as good as that. We benefited from that late November blizzard though. Despite the 5 week lull from late Nov to Jan 11, and the abrupt end to the snow season this will likely go down as my favorite winter. '14-'15 was excellent, but we failed to acquire a warning criteria event. The extreme wind chills and all-time cold both topped what we saw in that winter as well. To each his own of course...but man, these are very low expectations! Winter was nowhere to be found for half of DJF. If we are supposed to be happy with one warning criteria event in a winter and a 2-day cold snap where temps rebound to 50F two days later, that’s pretty sad for all of us. In your backyard, I would give this winter a D+. In my backyard, a D. Sure, there were some good periods, but you can’t lose 50% of winter and give it a favorable grade. If we didn’t have the huge thaw after the cold snap, the grades would be C+ and C respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackstraw Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 From 3-5 to nothing in 24 hrs. From Stebo's quote below this little system was the proverbial bird fart lmao! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 26 minutes ago, beavis1729 said: To each his own of course...but man, these are very low expectations! Winter was nowhere to be found for half of DJF. If we are supposed to be happy with one warning criteria event in a winter and a 2-day cold snap where temps rebound to 50F two days later, that’s pretty sad for all of us. In your backyard, I would give this winter a D+. In my backyard, a D. Sure, there were some good periods, but you can’t lose 50% of winter and give it a favorable grade. If we didn’t have the huge thaw after the cold snap, the grades would be C+ and C respectively. You realize thaws happen pretty much every winter, right? Combo of historic cold, Nov blizzard, Feb ice storm, Feb high wind event and several headline snows...makes this an easy A winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 4 hours ago, beavis1729 said: To each his own of course...but man, these are very low expectations! Winter was nowhere to be found for half of DJF. If we are supposed to be happy with one warning criteria event in a winter and a 2-day cold snap where temps rebound to 50F two days later, that’s pretty sad for all of us. In your backyard, I would give this winter a D+. In my backyard, a D. Sure, there were some good periods, but you can’t lose 50% of winter and give it a favorable grade. If we didn’t have the huge thaw after the cold snap, the grades would be C+ and C respectively. If this winter was a D+ here, then that would make all other winters here besides maybe a few an F- lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Will give this winter a B+. Reserve A grades for epic winters like 2007/08, 2013/14 and 78/79. Also the continued cold pattern with no snow that looks to possibly linger through March is annoying. The pattern set up was so close to delivering here in February but alas heavy snow events here don't occur frequently for a reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 I won't be seeing that for another month at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 On 3/7/2019 at 1:12 PM, beavis1729 said: To each his own of course...but man, these are very low expectations! Winter was nowhere to be found for half of DJF. If we are supposed to be happy with one warning criteria event in a winter and a 2-day cold snap where temps rebound to 50F two days later, that’s pretty sad for all of us. In your backyard, I would give this winter a D+. In my backyard, a D. Sure, there were some good periods, but you can’t lose 50% of winter and give it a favorable grade. If we didn’t have the huge thaw after the cold snap, the grades would be C+ and C respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 As I was headed to work this morning, it almost looked like a snowbow with snowflakes falling through the rising sun. Very cold first week of March, now we warm up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Well, of course I respect all of your opinions...but I guess I see things from a different point of view. First, Winter is an absolute thing, not relative to climo. Even if Atlanta has a record snowy winter, it would still get an F, because there isn’t a persistent wintry appeal throughout DJF. You may say my expectations are too high, but it’s not about that. I fully admit Chicago will never get an A for a winter...because I agree with Chicago storm’s point that we always get thaws. That just proves my point. For this season, we had no white Christmas...and during the first 6 weeks of DJF, winter was nonexistent. Because of that, the starting point is an F. Then the November storm and the late January arctic outbreak could have (generously) brought it up to a C...but then the quick thaw and snowmelt after both of these events just killed it. So, split the difference with a D. The ice storm doesn’t contribute much either way. Sure, it was interesting...but 2 days later, you never knew it happened. True wintry places focus on SDDs, peak snow cover date, # of days with 20”+ depth, etc. Chicago never entertains these discussions at all. If Chicago truly got an A for this winter, does Rhinelander get an A+++? Do Bo and Will get an A++++++++++++++? Think about that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 The Euro schooled the GFS on today's weak wave. The GFS was way too wet and widespread with the precip swath until the last minute. If the Euro model didn't exist and we had to depend on the GFS and GEM it would be a very sad affair. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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