Fall/Winter '24 Banter and Complaints Go Here

[Malacka11]

53 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

It definitely helps that the entire region has been snowless this winter.  It would be much worse if I was sitting at 7" and Waterloo and Dubuque were at 35".

100%. It's like this winter just didn't take at all so far.

[King James]

I’m in full on spring mode. Ready for Morch and some day drinking.


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[Harry Perry]

15 hours ago, RogueWaves said:

My complaint this morning was too much snow on the x-way. Roscommon hadn't touched S 127 so it was basically two tire ruts in the slow lane, and 4" in the passing lane. You're at the mercy of the slowest snail driver. 

You’re tantalizing me here. I guess I didn’t realize you moved that far north. How are you liking it? Bring some of that down here would ya?

[Harry Perry]

14 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Depends what you mean area wide snowfall. You're never going to get a snowfall that hits the entire subforum. We have had area wide snowfalls in southern MI so far (obviously nothing heavy). Going forward the pattern looks more active in Feb, so where storm tracks/baroclinic zones set up will be telling as to who gets some fun, but that is something with little skill more than a few days out.

Yeah, I’d imagine it’s going to be lots of rainers. Maybe some pingers. The pattern has been like this since November, we wait for the cold and wet at the horizon, and it keeps getting pushed farther back. We finally got the cold, short lived albeit but little precipitation (outside of lake effect). Now on the horizon, I see lots of early spring systems with much of the sub in the warm sector and really a bias for warmth through the end of the month. EPS weeklies looking toasty.  Kind of reminds me a bit of last February - maybe we’ll get another middle of the night tornado outbreak with some golfball size hail come the end of the month. 

[michsnowfreak]

1 hour ago, Harry Perry said:

Yeah, I’d imagine it’s going to be lots of rainers. Maybe some pingers. The pattern has been like this since November, we wait for the cold and wet at the horizon, and it keeps getting pushed farther back. We finally got the cold, short lived albeit but little precipitation (outside of lake effect). Now on the horizon, I see lots of early spring systems with much of the sub in the warm sector and really a bias for warmth through the end of the month. EPS weeklies looking toasty.  Kind of reminds me a bit of last February - maybe we’ll get another middle of the night tornado outbreak with some golfball size hail come the end of the month. 

Short lived? Pretty much the entire month of January was cold, save for a few days. The first half of December was cold too. There has definitely NOT been a lack of cold this winter season, nor has their been a surplus of rain, outside of a rainy week in late Dec. Sometimes a cold pattern just does not sync with the storminess we want. In fact, this type of winter was more common 100 years ago than it is now. Likewise, some years that are dominated by a mild pattern luck out with snowstorms every chance you get (see 2022-23 for example, a terrible winter pattern yet multiple nice winter storms). The outlook for Feb per most is very up and down, theres very much potential with our region in the battlezone (if you believe projections/ensembles/etc).