Winter 2024-25 Medium/Long Range Discussion

[TheClimateChanger]

2 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

LMAO. I have him blocked so i only see stuff if someone quotes him. Someone needs reading comprehension Im guessing. Apparently since 2024 has been a warm year, the cold pattern coming up cant be called a cold pattern. . Im very worried about being at 11% of avg snowfall thru November 21st though. Back in 2019, we were at 1,188% of avg snowfall as of November 21st, and that imminently led to a season of 1,188% snowfall I assume (I just have to confirm DTW saw 53,460 inches of snow in 2019-20). 

You don't need to tell me math is not your forte. Actually, you were 1055.6% of normal that year. 9.5/0.9 = 10.556.  And 1055.6% of your normal of 45 inches is 475 inches, not 53,460 inches. You're only off by a couple of orders of magnitude. That would be 1188 times your normal snowfall or 118,800% of normal. 

[sbnwx85]

Sick burn.

[michsnowfreak]

2 hours ago, DocATL said:

Looks like we are absolutely getting the cold. Now if we can get the storm track.


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Since youre relatively new to the midwest, I will tell you that if we can get a clipper pattern going, that is fun as well!

[michsnowfreak]

3 minutes ago, sbnwx85 said:

Sick burn.

Yikes, I did have that math off. However shall I recover from being burned by an agenda pushing troll who annoys almost every poster in every subforum with excessive cherry picked drivel. 

[michsnowfreak]

Its kind of a given, but if the ingredients come together right, there could be some major LES in the coming weeks. Your talking well above avg lake water temps and well below avg air temps to end November and start December. Theres going to be some regardless, but already will have a few of the key ingredients in place for a major outbreak.

[sbnwx85]

1 minute ago, michsnowfreak said:

Its kind of a given, but if the ingredients come together right, there could be some major LES in the coming weeks. Your talking well above avg lake water temps and well below avg air temps to end November and start December. Theres going to be some regardless, but already will have a few of the key ingredients in place for a major outbreak.

To your point... in my amateurish observations over the years you can basically double whatever the global models put out in terms of lake-effect. Both GFS and Euro are spitting out about a foot in SW Michigan between Black Friday and the following Tuesday. Could be some big boy totals when all is said and done!

[DocATL]

Since youre relatively new to the midwest, I will tell you that if we can get a clipper pattern going, that is fun as well!

That’s true. From what I’ve seen, those are near term events in that you really need to have the conditions established first and then things start to show up in the models a few days out.


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[Frog Town]

This pattern is turning out very December 2000ish..  That was a crazy cold and snowy December that quickly turned into a mild January/Feb.   I believe we had 15+" on the ground for for Christmas that year in Toledo.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

18 minutes ago, Frog Town said:

This pattern is turning out very December 2000ish

Don’t tease the Chicago crew with that reference. What a month to be a kid. 

[Geoboy645]

3 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Its kind of a given, but if the ingredients come together right, there could be some major LES in the coming weeks. Your talking well above avg lake water temps and well below avg air temps to end November and start December. Theres going to be some regardless, but already will have a few of the key ingredients in place for a major outbreak.

Yeah this feels like the pattern that we have managed to somehow avoid the last few years where the LES belts just go on overdrive, for everyone in the belts. We've seen how it's been for Buffalo with the well-above average water temps (LSTs?) and favorable cold air and wind direction. We haven't seen that with a NW-flow event in quite a while while the lakes have been at the early season max for temps. Will be interesting to watch over the next couple weeks here. 

[Chicago Storm]

6 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

You don't need to tell me math is not your forte. Actually, you were 1055.6% of normal that year. 9.5/0.9 = 10.556.  And 1055.6% of your normal of 45 inches is 475 inches, not 53,460 inches. You're only off by a couple of orders of magnitude. That would be 1188 times your normal snowfall or 118,800% of normal. 

you were a middle child, weren't you.

[michsnowfreak]

4 hours ago, DocATL said:

That’s true. From what I’ve seen, those are near term events in that you really need to have the conditions established first and then things start to show up in the models a few days out.


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Yes that's exactly right. You know you're in a clipper pattern, but some modeled events fade away and others can surprise and pop up out of nowhere.

[snowman33]

GFS has been consistently showing a clipper signal 11/30-12/1. Hoping I can see some football in the snow that weekend.