Winter '23-'24 Piss and Moan/Banter Thread

[Stevo6899]

1 hour ago, CheeselandSkies said:

See you twice next season. Should be good games. Otherwise, 4 wins apiece against the Bears/Vikings sounds like a plan.

 

Man if y'all didn't choke too, would've been a fun nfc championship game in detroit. 

[roardog]

4 hours ago, Chicago Storm said:

don’t worry, i’m a falcons fan.

it could be worse…

That Falcons second half collapse in the Super Bowl was somehow even worse than the second half collapse of the Lions in the championship game. 

[roardog]

11 minutes ago, Stevo6899 said:

Man if y'all didn't choke too, would've been a fun nfc championship game in detroit. 

When the Lions were playing like an unstoppable force in the first half, I was thinking about how playing the Packers might have been a much tougher game. Then the second half happened and I changed my mind. lol

[btcs31]

I guess this is off topic. Anyone else dealing with fog in the Chicago area, or is this just smoke and pollution in northwest Indiana from the refinery burning off excess product from the power outage? It’s thick and can see ‘clouds’ of it blowing by out the window.

[SolidIcewx]

2 hours ago, CheeselandSkies said:

See you twice next season. Should be good games. Otherwise, 4 wins apiece against the Bears/Vikings sounds like a plan.

 

Ohh I can’t wait for that day already. Wish yall beat the 49ers so Detroit could have hosted 

[buckeye]

This beats his infamous excuse, "I nailed it at 5h"

Basically this one is,  if it wasn't for the warmth, it would have been cold 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

5 minutes ago, buckeye said:

This beats his infamous excuse, "I nailed it at 5h"

Basically this one is,  if it wasn't for the warmth, it would have been cold 

Where is JB getting those maps? MSP was over 5 degrees above average in January, and that is showing near normal temps.

[rainsucks]

That dude is a fucking idiot lmao

[winterwx01]

48 minutes ago, buckeye said:

This beats his infamous excuse, "I nailed it at 5h"

Basically this one is,  if it wasn't for the warmth, it would have been cold 

Delusional 

[A-L-E-K]

return

 

[roardog]

1 hour ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Where is JB getting those maps? MSP was over 5 degrees above average in January, and that is showing near normal temps.

Those are just high temperature anomalies. 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

44 minutes ago, roardog said:

Those are just high temperature anomalies. 

Gotcha, makes sense to further his narrative. Someone want to post a low temperature anomalies map.

[Stevo6899]

2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

return

 

For some odd reason I don't recall this storm here in metro detroit. Maybe it was ghd2? I do remember a snowstorm forecasted 3-5 days before detroit hosted the superbowl in 2006.  I don't think anything even ended up accumulating.

[Lightning]

20 minutes ago, Stevo6899 said:

For some odd reason I don't recall this storm here in metro detroit. Maybe it was ghd2? I do remember a snowstorm forecasted 3-5 days before detroit hosted the superbowl in 2006.  I don't think anything even ended up accumulating.

It was SB day.  Got several up this way with the SB2006 but most places only got a couple/few inches.

[michsnowfreak]

1 hour ago, Stevo6899 said:

For some odd reason I don't recall this storm here in metro detroit. Maybe it was ghd2? I do remember a snowstorm forecasted 3-5 days before detroit hosted the superbowl in 2006.  I don't think anything even ended up accumulating.

If you truly don't recall GHDII, Feb 1-2, 2015, SMH lol. It was a fantastic storm and the 16.7" of snow at DTW made it the largest storm since 1974. It's my favorite storm.

 

It's easy to get lost in the shadow of the 2013-14 winter, but the 2015 storm was incredible.

 

[michsnowfreak]

41 minutes ago, Lightning said:

It was SB day.  Got several up this way with the SB2006 but most places only got a couple/few inches.

Super Bowl 2006 dropped 3.6 inches here, but just 2 inches at DTW. Several days in advance much heavier snow is forecast.

 

2015 on the other hand, as posted above, was awesome. It was probably the most widespread storm to drop more than a foot of snow over all of Southeast Michigan in decades (jackpot was this area).

[Lightning]

1 hour ago, michsnowfreak said:

Super Bowl 2006 dropped 3.6 inches here, but just 2 inches at DTW. Several days in advance much heavier snow is forecast.

 

2015 on the other hand, as posted above, was awesome. It was probably the most widespread storm to drop more than a foot of snow over all of Southeast Michigan in decades (jackpot was this area).

Yeah that SB storm was only heavy in the hills of Oakland but most place 2-5"  I lived near Alpine Valley and parts of Oakland had a bit over 6".  After an incredible Dec start to winter that SB storm ended up being my biggest storm of that winter.  

 

Oh I remember that 2015 storm being near a foot+ all over.  I was happy knowing you finally got your big one.  That February was awesome!!

[michsnowfreak]

13 minutes ago, Lightning said:

Yeah that SB storm was only heavy in the hills of Oakland but most place 2-5"  I lived near Alpine Valley and parts of Oakland had a bit over 6".  After an incredible Dec start to winter that SB storm ended up being my biggest storm of that winter.  

 

Oh I remember that 2015 storm being near a foot+ all over.  I was happy knowing you finally got your big one.  That February was awesome!!

Its actually incredible to think that we had two Februaries in a row (2014 & 2015) with wall to wall double digit inch snow depth here.

[SolidIcewx]

2 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

If you truly don't recall GHDII, Feb 1-2, 2015, SMH lol. It was a fantastic storm and the 16.7" of snow at DTW made it the largest storm since 1974. It's my favorite storm.

 

It's easy to get lost in the shadow of the 2013-14 winter, but the 2015 storm was incredible.

 

This storm definitely #1 and the other real awesome one for #2 imo was the winter storm that brought the extreme cold early 2014.

[wishforsnow]

Coming home crossing the lift bridge into Hancock off to the left I seen a group of presuming MTU students playing hockey on the canal. The ice can't be that thick. It just froze when we got that blast of cold and snow and has been warm since. 

[roardog]

1 hour ago, wishforsnow said:

Coming home crossing the lift bridge into Hancock off to the left I seen a group of presuming MTU students playing hockey on the canal. The ice can't be that thick. It just froze when we got that blast of cold and snow and has been warm since. 

I’m not sure I’d trust any ice south of Hudson Bay this winter. lol

[OrdIowPitMsp]

23 minutes ago, roardog said:

I’m not sure I’d trust any ice south of Hudson Bay this winter. lol

The fire dept was at my local lake with an ice rescue boat on my drive home today. Not sure if they were training or someone fell through the ice. People had ice houses setup yesterday but none today. My brother in law was ice fishing in the suburbs last weekend and that lake still had 10” ice on it, but surely conditions have degraded by now. 

[wishforsnow]

I seen more people out on the canal today and they were on both sides of the bridge. Stupid idea. This is the first time in the 28 years I lived here I seen people out on the ice outside the snowmobilers going across. 

[bowtie`]

This will piss off the winter weenies. This afternoon a small V of sandhill cranes were winging their way back north. True this is just the vanguard and not the main body of V's upon V's. But Mother Nature is still starting to think about the coming Spring.

 

With minimal cropping and just a hint of a sundog...

 

 

A whole bunch of cropping on this one. About a third of the sensor was all that was saved...

[Lightning]

13 hours ago, bowtie` said:

This will piss off the winter weenies. This afternoon a small V of sandhill cranes were winging their way back north. True this is just the vanguard and not the main body of V's upon V's. But Mother Nature is still starting to think about the coming Spring.

 

With minimal cropping and just a hint of a sundog...

 

 

 

A whole bunch of cropping on this one. About a third of the sensor was all that was saved...

 

Not sure why you say this will piss off winter weenies.  I live on a lake and see it all the time.  Many groups of birds hang here until the lake freezes and then go south to the next unfrozen lake. And so on.  Not all birds go deep south or Mexico/Latin America.  I have seen it many times with mid-winter thaws like this as they will head north to find open water.  Had some here the other day but my lake is solid ice.  They flew over and moved on.   If we get an ending with lots of cold they will go back south.  Many try to hang on the fringes of frozen lakes instead of flying deep south.

[nwohweather]

On 2/2/2024 at 1:47 PM, michsnowfreak said:

If you truly don't recall GHDII, Feb 1-2, 2015, SMH lol. It was a fantastic storm and the 16.7" of snow at DTW made it the largest storm since 1974. It's my favorite storm.

 

It's easy to get lost in the shadow of the 2013-14 winter, but the 2015 storm was incredible.

 

February 2015 was absolutely brutal. I remember as a college student struggling along in sub-zero weather to morning classes bundled up like the Michelin man. College of Business was not the shortest walk from my house back then. It was the snowiest February in Toledo history at 25" and second coldest at an average of 12 degrees. 

[Lightning]

I don't know why anyone would want to go out on Portage ice especially in the Houghton/Hancock bridge area.  When I went to MTU, yes there were snowmobiles all the time, but they wouldn't stop unless it had been very cold.  Even then not so much in the Bridge area.  We rarely saw people out on it.  A winter like this you must be crazy to go out there!!!

[dmc76]

On 2/2/2024 at 12:36 PM, Stevo6899 said:

For some odd reason I don't recall this storm here in metro detroit. Maybe it was ghd2? I do remember a snowstorm forecasted 3-5 days before detroit hosted the superbowl in 2006.  I don't think anything even ended up accumulating.

Mysteriously u don’t remember. That was an area wide 13-18”  15-16” in central macomb to be exact 

[Powerball]

As nice as GHD 2 was from a total amount and spread-the-wealth standpoint, for this subforum it wasn't really an impressive wind producer nor a storm with particularly heavy rates (compared to its predecessor in 2011).

It was mostly a long duration light/moderate event, lasting over 24 hours (at the peak, rates were maybe 1/2 inch per hour). There was some blowing/drifting towards the end, but again, nothing out of the ordinary for that area.

That could be why it's sort of hard to remember this event, lol.

[michsnowfreak]

12 hours ago, nwohweather said:

February 2015 was absolutely brutal. I remember as a college student struggling along in sub-zero weather to morning classes bundled up like the Michelin man. College of Business was not the shortest walk from my house back then. It was the snowiest February in Toledo history at 25" and second coldest at an average of 12 degrees. 

February 2015 does not get it's fair due, most likely because it followed the historic 2013-14 winter. It was the coldest February on record in many spots in this region, and second place in others only to 1875. And the deep snow didn't even have its chance in the spotlight because it was second to 2014. But had that month occurred in a world where 2013-14 didn't exist, we would be remembering it for its nonstop deep snow. As I mentioned, 2 Februarys in a row where Detroit saw a wall to wall double-digit inch snowdepth. It had never come close to happening before, and boom. Now it happened 2 years in a row. While some in the general public do still remember 2013-14 (its hard not to), you'll hear almost nobody recall 2015 other than a weather weenie. The general public is too busy remembering winters of their childhood with snow to the rooftops...that never happened.