December 2024 General Discussion

[michsnowfreak]

  On 12/6/2024 at 5:51 AM, Snowstorms said:

Looks like HRRR nailed the Georgian bay band. Measured 2.1" with the band today in Woodbridge, just north of Toronto. About 5" on the ground now.

Nice to see snow piles again on the edge of my driveway. Winter wonderland 

 

 

 

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Wow very nice. Just a dusting on the ground here. We have had 9 days this season with T - 1" on the ground but no more yet. Im waiting for those piles!

[Snowstorms]

  On 12/6/2024 at 3:28 PM, michsnowfreak said:

Wow very nice. Just a dusting on the ground here. We have had 9 days this season with T - 1" on the ground but no more yet. Im waiting for those piles!

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The Georgian Bay band was a little surprise. We don't see see lake effect bands extend that far south. Thanks to the snow cover, YYZ got down to 12 last night. Our coldest low so far. 

Hoping we can both see something more widespread so we can have a piece of the pie together. 

[michsnowfreak]

  On 12/6/2024 at 6:22 PM, Snowstorms said:

The Georgian Bay band was a little surprise. We don't see see lake effect bands extend that far south. Thanks to the snow cover, YYZ got down to 12 last night. Our coldest low so far. 

Hoping we can both see something more widespread so we can have a piece of the pie together. 

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It'll come! The snow season statistically has about 93% more to come here lol.

[Torchageddon]

  On 12/6/2024 at 5:13 AM, Snowstorms said:

London got slammed today with 20-30". Good thing it was moved. You would've gotten stuck. 

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I saw the crush on radar, but you mean 20-30cm instead of inches? TWN had reported the former.

I got more heavy snow mid-day 15cm. In the last 7 days I've maybe gotten 105cm+ now. Its a snow bonanza here.

[Chinook]

Toledo's only time above freezing since Black Friday, that is December 4th, featured... almost thundersnow?

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Remaining patches of snow in the yard will get obliterated today and tomorrow. Back to BN temps next week. Lakes are starting to see the annual return of ice fishing shacks, my ski hill has been making tons of snow during this cold stretch. Should be a great day on the slopes today. 

[cyclone77]

Glad we finally shook this worthless northwest flow CAD regime.  50s tomorrow and Sunday.  

If it ain't gonna snow then give me warmth fo sho

[RogueWaves]

Burst of mod snow and large flakes now - snow globe happening here this morning. Nice little surprise before the mini-torch

[Chinook]

It looks like the NAM-4km and other models want to keep the inversion tomorrow, but the NWS has my area up to 47 degrees, much better low level warming.

 

[hawkeye_wx]

Iowa is way over-performing today.  A couple days ago it was supposed to be upper 40s here.  This morning it was raised to the low 50s.  It is currently 59º.  Central Iowa is in the low 60s.

[sbnwx85]

As much as I love snow, one thing I miss about Central Illinois weather is the occasional 60+ degree day in the middle of winter.

[Chinook]

sunset a few minutes ago

[cyclone77]

MLI hit 56 today, which was about 10 degrees higher than forecast.  

Point for tomorrow has 55, so will likely be 60-65 under full sun again.

[A-L-E-K]

49 and feels warm

[hawkeye_wx]

Cedar Rapids hit 60º.  Des Moines hit 64º and Ames hit 65º.

[Chinook]

cold weather has now turned to 50's and 60's in the Plains

[hawkeye_wx]

Cedar Rapids hit 60º again today.

[Stevo6899]

Nothing bothers me more than pouring rain during one of our 3 main months of potential snow. Another slow start and most likely another weak December snow wise.

[WestMichigan]

  On 12/9/2024 at 12:31 PM, Stevo6899 said:

Nothing bothers me more than pouring rain during one of our 3 main months of potential snow. Another slow start and most likely another weak December snow wise.

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Definitely depends on where you live.  The snow belt regions are doing OK.  I understand inland it is a different story but I don't think anyone in Buffalo, Erie, or even Gaylord would say, "another weak December snow wise."

[Stevo6899]

  On 12/9/2024 at 1:26 PM, WestMichigan said:

Definitely depends on where you live.  The snow belt regions are doing OK.  I understand inland it is a different story but I don't think anyone in Buffalo, Erie, or even Gaylor would say, "another weak December snow wise."

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Yea I'm weird, lake effect is cheating snow. I'm talking mainly system snow and the detroit area. Up here north of detroit, we haven't hit our december avg of snow in 6 winters. 

[michsnowfreak]

  On 12/9/2024 at 1:39 PM, Stevo6899 said:

Yea I'm weird, lake effect is cheating snow. I'm talking mainly system snow and the detroit area. Up here north of detroit, we haven't hit our december avg of snow in 6 winters. 

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We did hit avg in 2020. But without a doubt Dec has been the month of the snow season that's been lagging it's avg over any other month.

[Stevo6899]

  On 12/9/2024 at 4:44 PM, michsnowfreak said:

We did hit avg in 2020. But without a doubt Dec has been the month of the snow season that's been lagging it's avg over any other month.

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The city may have barely by less than an inch in 2020 but here north of the city we haven't. But as you said it's been zzzz. 

[michsnowfreak]

  On 12/9/2024 at 6:49 PM, Stevo6899 said:

The city may have barely by less than an inch in 2020 but here north of the city we haven't. But as you said it's been zzzz. 

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Surprisingly despite a stretch of anemic Decembers, we have been able to keep pace with our 50/50 White Christmas avg. 

[Snowstorms]

  On 12/9/2024 at 7:57 PM, michsnowfreak said:

Surprisingly despite a stretch of anemic Decembers, we have been able to keep pace with our 50/50 White Christmas avg. 

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Would be nice if Nina Decembers could act like typical Nina Decembers. The last time we had a typical Nina December was 2017. From 2000 - 2019, only 2011 was a warm Nina December.  

[Stevo6899]

  On 12/9/2024 at 7:57 PM, michsnowfreak said:

Surprisingly despite a stretch of anemic Decembers, we have been able to keep pace with our 50/50 White Christmas avg. 

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Obviously you have a better memory than me but I feel like we've had more brown winters than white the last 10 years.

[Snowstorms]

  On 12/9/2024 at 11:57 PM, Stevo6899 said:

Obviously you have a better memory than me but I feel like we've had more brown winters than white the last 10 years.

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Yeah we've definitely had a lot of brown Christmases the last 10 years. Only 4 winters since 2014 here. The 4th was just under an inch so technically 3. 

[RCNYILWX]

Decent looking snow squall setup on Wednesday on some of the guidance, 00z HRRR, past few NAM12 runs, and the 18z Euro.

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[michsnowfreak]

  On 12/9/2024 at 11:57 PM, Stevo6899 said:

Obviously you have a better memory than me but I feel like we've had more brown winters than white the last 10 years.

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The last 10 years have had 4 White Christmases (2016, 2017, 2020, 2022). Since 2000 exactly half the Christmas mornings have been white.

[sbnwx85]

  On 12/10/2024 at 2:43 AM, RCNYILWX said:

Decent looking snow squall setup on Wednesday on some of the guidance, 00z HRRR, past few NAM12 runs, and the 18z Euro.

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Having never been in a Snow Squall Warning I wondered if the emergency alert would be triggered on my phone if one is issued. Here’s what I found:

“Only high-impact snow squall events that are tagged as “significant” will trigger a Wireless Emergency Alert in the warned area, which will reduce overalerting. The new “significant” tag will be implemented by various weather forecast offices on Nov. 7, 2022 with nationwide implementation completed by February 2023”.

[Baum]

what section of the house do we go to in the event of a snow squall warning? Southwest corner? And do we open windows?