DaveNay

Is it just me, or does the intensity and duration of the cold seems to be easing back a bit in the models?

Ok, y'all have had your damn snow storms. Is it spring yet?

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57 minutes ago, Sciascia said:

Officially in dry slot. A shame seeing as NWS Chicago’s belief was that this was a prime time for 1in/hr in the Rockford area until 11am or so.

Hope it fills in in relatively short order. 

@RCNYILWX Please ask the powers that be don't change the area numbers from slide to slide. I immediately went to area "4" when I looked, but today I am area "1".

2 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

6z guidance generally came in weaker/east for the most part, and slower developing.

Weaker/drier/east is a trend you need not want to see in the Chicago metro/NE Illinois. Shall see if it was a one run blip, or if it actually turns into a trend.


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Works for me!

2 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Hoping for 6” at this point. Higher end totals appear off the table. Heavy bands are pretty transient 

Those "heavy bands" in south DKB county you mentioned earlier aren't really putting much down on the ground either.

That rain line is also moving closer every minute...IDK if it will ever reach me though.

1 minute ago, Chinook said:

this was earlier today, with over 60mph winds creating severe blizzard conditions in some areas of Kansas

They can keep that shit.

4 minutes ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Is that a 2-stage (has a blower inside the chute in addition to the auger)?

Yes.

Wish I had one of those for my tractor.  They are soooo expensive.

I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

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3 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

I notice people who live in the country tend to just drive over a few inches of snow but in the suburbs people will shovel. My last shovelable 3"+ snowfall was 5.3" on March 10th.

Can confirm. Live in country and I haven't snow blowed the driveway in the last two winters. Porches and sidewalks have been shoveled, yes.

I'm not laughing...yet.

5 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Exactly. there are plenty of people here who like warm weather over cold. And they are totally fine because they don't troll

Although we do quietly laugh at some of the epic meltdowns over the years when big storms miss.

1 hour ago, DocATL said:

Accuweather has Chicagoland below freezing for the entire month of January. Whole month.

I'm not gonna hold my breath on that one.

And then that happened....

Hot, hot, hot!

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1 hour ago, TheClimateChanger said:

August hourly heat index records at ORD (1946-present) and MDW (1948-present), per Iowa Environmental Mesonet data plotter (see below). Should be close to some of these numbers the next couple of days, although that 117F from 8/1/1953 is probably out of reach.

ORD

MDW

I got married in Aug of 95 at a south suburban country club. Those temps were absolutely brutal.

Looking east at the cell in eastern DeKalb county. Approx 7:45pm

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Coming up on 3" and still raining.

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20 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

it's been like paradise, just unreal wx, especially for the normies who don't mind the lack of storms

makes it obv why lakefront living was so valued in the pre-ac historical era

 

"Cooler by the lake" is something all Chicagoans have burned into their psyche.

10 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Shutout cancel here, did manage to scrape up 0.06" from a micro cell.  Up to 0.18" for June!!!

We were camping at Mississippi Palisades. Guess which tiny blob of rain got the tent wet right before packing it up?

On 6/2/2023 at 9:41 AM, roardog said:

The problem is as soon as you get some wind to mix it up, it'll cool down. It takes more than a couple weeks of warmth to warm up such a big, deep body of water. It's pretty deceiving really. The water temp there could easily be cooler on the 4th of July than it is now.

Or you try to swim in it and your legs below the knees are freezing.

The drought will break (perhaps only temporarily) on Father's Day weekend.

I know this, because we are going camping.

Storm damage from the 6am line through southern DeKalb County. Mother in law is also reporting some siding damage in Sycamore.

Holy heatwave Batman!

1 minute ago, WaryWarren said:

Hawkeye'd. 

Ryan Hall just mentioned Malacka, not by name.

There's like 842 chasers out there tonight. How do you know he was referring to @Malacka11?