hardypalmguy

This might be a cold summer akin to 1997.  Might want to get our heads wrapped around that possibility.

50 minutes ago, HillsdaleMIWeather said:

Tired of getting missed south and west lol

we get the stratiform rain.  it's lovely

1 hour ago, A-L-E-K said:

lol dirt roads 

little house on the prairie shit 

no dirt roads by you?

14 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said:

this weather definitely has an impact on the ole immune system after the mid month warmth

tell me about it.  i feel like i have a flu or something coming on.

38.4 at 2:00 pm in May.  This has to rank in the top 3 worst May days ever.

1 hour ago, josh_4184 said:

LOL, i am assuming this is overdone or  at least hoping. 

enjoy

1 hour ago, beavis1729 said:

A general comment, not just directed at you: most people on this forum know their climo.
 

But if you’re a warm weenie (or snow, severe, etc.), climo isn’t good enough. It’s just how life goes. 
 

If you’re a sports fan, an average season isn’t good enough. You don’t play the game for an average season, you play to win it all. 
 

And if you enjoy something in life, you want more of it. I like chocolate, so eating an average amount of chocolate isn’t good enough. 
 

I know these are strange analogies, but it’s reality. 

what if you like hookers and blow?

seems to me like we may be having a cold and dreary summer this year, which would suck, but I guess we're due for one.

21 hours ago, weatherbo said:

Looks like snow will be gone a tad sooner this year (maybe another week) thanks to the crazy week of warmth, I can't imagine how long it'd have hung around if this had been a typical April.

Cool one today with a high of 34 forecast but at least the uprising and violence in the coop is under control now that the ladies are able to roam, scratch around, eat worms.  Thankfully they'll shit more outside too.  winter coop duty- not fun.

remaining snowpack 

 

Does your ground freeze with all that snow?

Don’t tell hardypalmdude he’s gonna cream his boyshorts 

That’s usually about the time most of the remaining snow is gone around here. 

1 hour ago, A-L-E-K said:

yeah looks trash, western edge of the worst at least here

what's up with springs lately?  3 days to 1 week of nice then 3 weeks of trash.  rinse and repeat.  why are trash patterns easy to lock in?

It looks like the option has been taken away to see the 16-day GFS as text output.  Does it work for anyone else or does someone know of a comparable site?

July 1995 is one of those rare weather months that stands out in my memory. At the time we lived in a house with two window A/C units, one in the living room and one in my parents' bedroom which they didn't like to use because they didn't trust the wiring up there (1920's house with one two-prong outlet per bedroom, except the master which had two, my dad upgraded all the wiring on the first floor but never got around to the second before we moved out). I don't think nine-year-old me wore a shirt outside of school all month. Fans going full blast in every room and almost nightly thunderstorms. Good times.

So I am seeing mjo crawl through phase 7 on its way to phase 1 and going into the cod. NAO, AO, EPO all tanking while the PNA goes positive?  

Hitting mid 80s here in southern Wisconsin. This pattern isn’t actually that far off from what we had in March “Morch” 2012. This is not a one day warm up then back down — we have sustaining.

I saw the signs of a week of this back when I said we would have a Morch.

Delayed but not denied.

1 hour ago, hawkeye_wx said:

The mild to warm temp is great.  However, a bit of humidity would be nice because the air is very dry.

We have no foliage for evapotranspiration. 

Palm tree weather.

Palm tree weather is on the horizon.  I've already begun moving batches of mine outside this week.  By this weekend I'll have 400+ palms outside.

23 minutes ago, rainsucks said:

 

woahhhh hey....look at that.  March 2012 analog.  Looks like I was right that this was coming this year.

1 hour ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

30 and spitting flurries. Winter is hanging on strong this year. I’m on a job site in the woods in Lakeville MN (southern suburb) and there’s still easily 12-20” of snow here.

That is utterly disgusting.

2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

next week is going to feel incredible, leaf out will be fast and furious

you're definitely a warminista.

10 hours ago, Chicago Storm said:

Haven't had a chance to put out any April thoughts with the active severe weather pattern ongoing, but...

Spring is here for April, let's just put it that way. We are losing a lot of the ridging that has been in place up north, which was shunting the remaining cold air down into our region.

I feel highly confident in saying Chicago has seen it's last accumulating snow for the season, which was back on 3/13. There's a better chance of racking up numerous 70+ days this month than seeing more accumulating snowfall.

Morch was delayed, not denied. 

4 minutes ago, WestMichigan said:

GRR talked about that in the overnight AFD also.  It will be interesting to see what if anything can develop near Lake Michigan.

Having Lake Michigan next to us is like living near the Arctic Ocean.

ready to torch.  let's do it