KeenerWx Posted Thursday at 11:39 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:39 PM Getting some good pics & reports so far to the east! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Posted Friday at 01:41 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:41 AM 3 hours ago, KeenerWx said: Getting some good pics & reports so far to the east! We have been viewing them here. Not as strong as the May event so far. Very glad I live out in the boonies so we can star gaze. EDIT: Just had a really nice wave of Aurora go through with some great colors. Especially lots of reds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeenerWx Posted Friday at 03:55 AM Share Posted Friday at 03:55 AM 2 hours ago, Lightning said: We have been viewing them here. Not as strong as the May event so far. Very glad I live out in the boonies so we can star gaze. EDIT: Just had a really nice wave of Aurora go through with some great colors. Especially lots of reds. Had a pretty phenomenal show from ~9-9:30P CDT. Since then, most of the visible reds have been hanging out to the south. Looking north is just a diffused green glow that has been along for most of the event. (I also live in the sticks) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeenerWx Posted Friday at 07:15 AM Share Posted Friday at 07:15 AM Snapped far too many pics on my iPhone. Haven't gone through most of them; attaching one of my favorites from early in the night. The show has basically been visible to the naked eye from just after sunset until now. Mostly diffused for sure, but had several long runs of vibrant colors bursting in the sky. In some ways, this event has eclipsed May from personal observations. (1) Was able to see sustained (to naked eye) curtain movement, (2) witnessed pulsating aurora overhead. The second bit tripped me out a bit & I thought my eyes were fooling me. It looked like electrical currents running the sky and at first reminded me of bioluminescent jellyfish. Has been widely reported, though, so I'm confident I haven't gone crazy. 10/10. And an unforgettable run so far this year with visible aurora. Can't recall any recent stretch where we've gotten so many great shows at this latitude. The only thing to beat/match is my OG memory of aurora as a kid sometime 2003/2004? Had the quintessential show that you see advertised in Alaska, Iceland, etc -- vibrant green curtains & coronas -- but in Northwest Indiana. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted Friday at 11:21 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:21 AM excellent^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted Friday at 11:23 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:23 AM Nice to finally see some precipitation showing up. Yeah, it is the GFS but hopefully after weeks of dryness it is on to something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestMichigan Posted Friday at 11:29 AM Share Posted Friday at 11:29 AM Not a great show last night, but I did manage to get a couple of ok pics. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted Friday at 12:19 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:19 PM I live in light pollution abyss, in between downtown and the airport only 1 mile to my south. Nonetheless I could see a faint naked eye Aurora in my backyard and things were vivid through a camera lens. Great night, must have been epic away from the city 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted Friday at 01:02 PM Share Posted Friday at 01:02 PM Some of my pictures at home around 10pm last night. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted Friday at 02:22 PM Share Posted Friday at 02:22 PM On 10/3/2024 at 5:43 AM, A-L-E-K said: selling halloween snow 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted Friday at 03:00 PM Share Posted Friday at 03:00 PM 3 hours ago, WestMichigan said: Nice to finally see some precipitation showing up. Yeah, it is the GFS but hopefully after weeks of dryness it is on to something. Big change from runs over the past couple weeks, that's for sure. I noticed we are finally starting to see a little movement on the Great Lakes, especially Lake Superior. Forecast calls for levels to continue dropping through March. Note that most precipitation in the Superior Basin is frozen in the winter, so less uncertainty moving forward. The other lakes are more uncertain. Current forecast calls for levels in March to range from 183.02 to 183.27 meters. At the low end, that would approach levels last seen in 2013. Big change from the record high levels of 2019 & 2020. Also note, there's a well-defined seasonality in lake levels, which reach their lowest typically in March or April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvck Posted Friday at 07:28 PM Share Posted Friday at 07:28 PM Pretty good show just north of Mt Pleasant, MI. Crazy sight with the wind farms surrounding you as well 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted Friday at 08:47 PM Share Posted Friday at 08:47 PM 1 hour ago, nvck said: Pretty good show just north of Mt Pleasant, MI. Crazy sight with the wind farms surrounding you as well Nice! I tried to go outside to look for it. I might have seen a vaguely green sky. Kind of frustrating. But hey, I saw two solar eclipses with sunny skies in the last 7 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted Saturday at 02:39 AM Share Posted Saturday at 02:39 AM I was watching this live stream last night, as well as one from Quebec 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted Saturday at 01:52 PM Share Posted Saturday at 01:52 PM 18 hours ago, nvck said: Pretty good show just north of Mt Pleasant, MI. Crazy sight with the wind farms surrounding you as well Nice, going to CMU for college? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvck Posted Saturday at 04:26 PM Share Posted Saturday at 04:26 PM 2 hours ago, Stebo said: Nice, going to CMU for college? yep, freshman in the met program! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted Saturday at 04:27 PM Share Posted Saturday at 04:27 PM Just now, nvck said: yep, freshman in the met program! LFG! Great program to be a part of and those who I know up there in the program are really good too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted Saturday at 05:57 PM Share Posted Saturday at 05:57 PM A cool, wet weekend on tap. A decent steady rain forecast for tonight into the am. A batch of showers moving through right now. Been dreadfully dry around here. Temps pretty seasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Posted Saturday at 09:08 PM Share Posted Saturday at 09:08 PM Looking pretty good for at least some rain around here tonight. Nice storms over LM right now. Hopefully they don't drop just to my south (something that happens commonly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted Sunday at 12:03 AM Share Posted Sunday at 12:03 AM this seems like the low-CAPE version of several huge squall lines heading at me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Posted Sunday at 01:31 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:31 AM While the Thunder has been south of here. We have had a steady rain now for a couple hours. I haven't seen something like this since early August while in La Crosse WI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted Sunday at 12:12 PM Share Posted Sunday at 12:12 PM 12 hours ago, Chinook said: this seems like the low-CAPE version of several huge squall lines heading at me 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted Sunday at 05:29 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:29 PM 5 hours ago, IWXwx said: Too bad you missed out. My area had the rainiest day since July 10th and, most likely, the most thundery day since June. It's too bad this rain couldn't help the farms much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Posted Sunday at 09:55 PM Share Posted Sunday at 09:55 PM 4 hours ago, Chinook said: Too bad you missed out. My area had the rainiest day since July 10th and, most likely, the most thundery day since June. It's too bad this rain couldn't help the farms much. Today I surpassed 1" total for this event. This is the most rain I have seen fall from the sky since driving August 5 from North Dakota, Minnesota to La Cross WI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted Sunday at 10:11 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:11 PM Looks like a tenth or two of precip around the 22nd and then bone dry through halloween. Hopefully a real weather system arrives in November. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted Sunday at 11:51 PM Share Posted Sunday at 11:51 PM 1 hour ago, cyclone77 said: Looks like a tenth or two of precip around the 22nd and then bone dry through halloween. Hopefully a real weather system arrives in November. By November I’ll be hoping it’s frozen, but anything helps at this point. We had a few sprinkles today but nothing measurable. Felt like a true autumn day, temps in the lower 50s and gusty winds taking lots of leaves off the trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted Monday at 09:47 AM Share Posted Monday at 09:47 AM Solid lake effect rain event 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartman Posted Monday at 11:15 AM Share Posted Monday at 11:15 AM Looks like a day or two of suicide weather to start the workweek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted Monday at 01:02 PM Share Posted Monday at 01:02 PM Low of 35 at the airport. Freeze across the suburbs. Heavy frost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Posted Monday at 02:36 PM Share Posted Monday at 02:36 PM 1.5" total for the weekend. Looks like we are going back to a bit of dry pattern after today (don't mind in October). Hopefully get a freeze one of the next couple mornings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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