IWXwx Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 On 2/11/2021 at 3:19 AM, Cary67 said: Thanks for highlighting my area personally Expand I did that for our friend McHenrySnow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Now that Jan data is out, I updated my chart for the Great Lakes region. Warm Jan's not unusual at all. Data source: https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/testdap/timeseries.pl Edit: changed graph with data from the region reflected here in our forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 After tonight/tomorrow's little 1" duster it looks CAD for quite awhile. Think I'm getting more and more ready to start thinking about spring. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McHenrySnow Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 On 2/12/2021 at 11:11 PM, cyclone77 said: After tonight/tomorrow's little 1" duster it looks CAD for quite awhile. Think I'm getting more and more ready to start thinking about spring. Expand I hate spring, but I can relate to being sick of the CAD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo6899 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 I saw this tower blossom on my bike ride tonight. Thought I'd snap a pic and upload it since its prob been 5 months since y'all seen one. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 https://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/users/meg/gefs_plumes/index.html?stationname=KMSN Just wanted to show everybody this website. Its the equivalent of the SREF plumes but for the GFS ensemble. You can just select the station on the map and you can bookmark it. Very helpful for seeing how the GEFS members are trending. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Hows TWC doing on their Feb grade? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 On 2/14/2021 at 1:35 PM, michsnowfreak said: Hows TWC doing on their Feb grade? Expand There’s someone who was here this morning who swears by private forecasters but looks like he got banned. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Chicago is only 4” behind Minneapolis on snowfall for the season. No doubt will pass us in the next few days. What a turnaround for you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snownado Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 I'm not even sure why people pay attention to monthly or seasonal forecasts. How often are they right ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 dewpoints have been around -20 all day. Can really feel your skin dry out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartman Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 A crappy Valentine's Day weekend with no sun at all following one of those weeks with not many days of it. Outside of accumulating snowfall chances, looks like we may very well be fixing for the longest overcast stretch of the season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 56% of the country is covered by snow now. Will be interesting to see how high that number gets later this week 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 up to 70.4% of the country covered in snow. Have a chance of passing that tomorrow, depending on how much melting(if any) occurs in Texas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Back in 2017 we hit 70 degrees on the 17th. That seems almost unfathomable with how cold it's been as of late. We're about to pop to zero after 42 consecutive hours below zero. Pretty impressive in January let alone mid February. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 On 2/15/2021 at 5:19 PM, cyclone77 said: Back in 2017 we hit 70 degrees on the 17th. That seems almost unfathomable with how cold it's been as of late. We're about to pop to zero after 42 consecutive hours below zero. Pretty impressive in January let alone mid February. Expand Almost strange not to have a mid January thaw. Became quite accustomed to the random 50+ day in January, usually snuck in a winter golf day. As it’s going, Feb has a decent shot of having snowcover the entire month as well. If you had told me on the brown Christmas Day that 2021 would start white and I would make it to Valentine’s Day without seeing grass, I would not have believed you. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 On 2/15/2021 at 9:38 PM, SchaumburgStormer said: Almost strange not to have a mid January thaw. Became quite accustomed to the random 50+ day in January, usually snuck in a winter golf day. As it’s going, Feb has a decent shot of having snowcover the entire month as well. If you had told me on the brown Christmas Day that 2021 would start white and I would make it to Valentine’s Day without seeing grass, I would not have believed you. Expand I hear that lol. Yeah I was still planting trees on Dec 18th. Things changed pretty fast after Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/15/2021 at 2:31 PM, madwx said: up to 70.4% of the country covered in snow. Have a chance of passing that tomorrow, depending on how much melting(if any) occurs in Texas Expand Got slightly higher today with 73.6% snow coverage. Thinking this should be the max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Snow depth as of 6am is 21” at ORD and 24” at MDW.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutlew Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 1:52 PM, Chicago Storm said: Snow depth as of 6am is 21” at ORD and 24” at MDW. . Expand That MDW value has to be near/in the top 5 all-time no? By my personal tally the city proper has received more than 40” of snow in the last 22 days; official ORD total is a smidge over 36” for that time frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 up to 9 degrees and full sunshine. Feels like a heatwave outside. Will finally be able to melt some of the snow and ice that's been stuck on the roads 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 1:34 PM, madwx said: Got slightly higher today with 73.6% snow coverage. Thinking this should be the max Expand This is the greatest snow cover extent since at least 2003. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 1:52 PM, Chicago Storm said: Snow depth as of 6am is 21” at ORD and 24” at MDW. . Expand Chicago's 21" snow depth means that only 3 winters on record had a higher snow depth 1978-79: 29" 1966-67: 27" 1917-18: 25" 2010-11: 21" (tie) Toledos 17" snow depth means only 2 winters have had a higher snow depth 1899-00: 21" 1977-78: 19" While Detroit's 14" snow depth is not close to a record, it's remarkable how many winters have seen snow depth eclipse a foot since 1999. 1998-99: 24" 2000-01: 12" 2004-05: 12" 2008-09: 14" 2010-11: 16" 2013-14: 20" 2014-15: 18" 2017-18: 14" 2020-21: 14" 9 of the past 23 winters saw a snow depth over a foot at Detroit. prior to this 9 of the previous 100 years did so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 16, 2021 Author Share Posted February 16, 2021 We've had the 6th coldest first 15 days of February here with an average temp of 3.7 degrees. The only comparable stretch in recent history is 2007 which had an average of 4.4 degrees but ended the month at 14.4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 ORD is up to 44.2” on the season now.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 10:43 PM, Chicago Storm said: ORD is up to 44.2” on the season now. . Expand 40.7" of that has occurred since January 1. It is the 6th highest January 1-February 16 snow total on record (would be even more impressive at Midway). None of these other winters had as slow of a start as this one. Most snow from Jan 1-Feb 16: 1) 50.4" -- 1978 2) 47.8" -- 2014 3) 47.3" -- 1918 4) 45.5" -- 1979 5) 43.0" -- 1967 6) 40.7" -- 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertSul Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 6:55 PM, madwx said: This is the greatest snow cover extent since at least 2003. Expand When Mississippi and Louisiana have greater snow coverage than North and South Dakota in the middle of winter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 5:26 PM, madwx said: up to 9 degrees and full sunshine. Feels like a heatwave outside. Will finally be able to melt some of the snow and ice that's been stuck on the roads Expand I thought temps overachieved today when I left work, it felt pretty decent out. Was surprised it was only 9 degrees lol. 30s will feel like the 4th of July. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McHenrySnow Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 11:37 PM, cyclone77 said: I thought temps overachieved today when I left work, it felt pretty decent out. Was surprised it was only 9 degrees lol. 30s will feel like the 4th of July. Expand We definitely overachieved here. Got up to 21.7. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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