hardypalmguy

50 minutes ago, mississaugasnow said:

are your palms still unprotected? I put mine in the garage but might bring them out for Christmas Eve and Christmas haha 

I have about 60 unprotected windmill palms outside that I'm testing for hardiness. 

13 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Nothing is more festive than worms on Christmas.  Here's a snippet from DVN's AFD today.

Looking at Christmas, there seems a higher risk of smelling
worms outside than shoveling snow around here this year with
moist air and highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s, and lows
above freezing.

perfect

Well look at that. Another top shelf record could fall. Loving this warm December. Palm tree weather continues.

9 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Someone who is into every stat imaginable for the area, I can assure you that everything and anything is possible. A warm december does not mean it won't snow. Likewise, I'm confident in a much colder January and February, but that does not guarantee a lot of snow (of course even if we do get the dreaded CAD we have the lakes on our side). I don't think this December will come close to Dec 1881 or 2015 warmth, but it will certainly blend right in with the other mild decembers of strong ninos. Really nothing you can do but just ride the roller coaster that is the weather.

however you can cope man

18 minutes ago, nwohweather said:

Picture of Milwaukee in 2060

Don't think we will have date palms yet by then, but probably windmill palms and needle palms will make it through winters.

I'll be 80 by then, so I'll be the old man yelling get off my lawn.

looking like the palm tree will go un-boxed into january.
this will be the first such time since i've had it, which dates back to 2008 or so.

funny thing is if it weren’t for that short-lived albeit severe cold snap, last Dec would’ve finished comfortably above average temp wise.

22 minutes ago, KokomoWX said:

Bah Humbug!  

perfect.  palm tree weather.  get the suntan lotion out.

1 hour ago, Powerball said:

 

Right.

Will have to wait until after New Years in order for the days in totality to get longer.

Actually last week of December....

27 minutes ago, DocATL said:

Let this sink in…on December 23rd the GFS has high temps in the mid 60’s in South Dakota. Mid 60’s!!

fine with me.  let's get back to april

Valencia orange. In Wisconsin.

When talking trends....clearly the recent trend is Decembers suck and Februarys are the best month of winter. But when you plug in different time periods into xmacis, you can see what trends were when making time periods longer or shorter. For instance, the last 100 year trend at Detroit has shown ZERO warming in Jan-Feb so the entire warming of winter (which isnt much) has been December.
POR (1874-2022)
Dec warmed 2.1F, gotten 0.19” wetter & 0.7” snowier
Jan warmed 0.4F, gotten 0.12” drier & 2.1” snowier
Feb warmed 2.9F, gotten 0.36” drier & 2.8” snowier
100 years (1923-2022)
Dec warmed 2.6F, gotten 0.25” wetter & 2.5” snowier
Jan COOLED 0.5F, gotten 0.13” drier & 5.4” snowier
Feb warmed 0.5F, gotten 0.21” wetter, & 7.3” snowier
50 years (1973-2022)
Dec warmed 5.9F, gotten 0.40” drier, 6.5” less snowy
Jan warmed 4.0F, gotten 0.17” wetter, 1.8” snowier
Feb warmed 2.7F, gotten 0.64” wetter, 10.5” snowier!
30 years (1993-2022)
Dec warmed 3.4F, gotten 0.70” wetter, 0.2” snowier
Jan warmed 0.6F, gotten 0.73” drier, 2.2” less snowy
Feb COOLED 1.0F, gotten 0.51” wetter, 12.6” snowier!
 
 

Fun fact — MKE has not been below freezing through the first 10 days of December.

the CFS has a favorable pattern for a January 2006 redux

Glad they aren’t succumbing to the cold. Did you have anything outside during the January 2019 cold snap? Wasn’t that the last deep cold in Milwaukee?
 
For me this time of year I’d define “palm tree weather” as days within 3 degrees of a record high. 

You’ve really lowered the bar if that’s considered palm tree weather. 
 
 

Keep what we have going for next 90 days. Definitely won’t complain.

Looks like we have more palm tree weather than winter weather this year. I’ll definitely take this any day it’s delivered as each day like this makes one less cold day possible and one more day closer to spring.

fooled u

Close, but no cigar. MKE topped out at 58. You even bested us way down here by a degree.

As big a snowlover & Christmas lover as I am, if I HAD to pick which DJF month to suck, I would actually pick December. I mean it's like choosing which bone to break. It's NOT a preference, just if I HAD to pick one. Always so busy with so many Christmas activities in Dec, whereas January & February are the boring quiet months, outside of weather. 

another 2 week winter incoming 

january here we come, then just a couple months until spring
eps just brutal for snow lovers

MKE beginning today at 46 should allow 60 to be realized as long as we can maintain sunshine and good mixing.

This is a top shelf December day. Palm tree weather is back!

Sure miss big December storms like this one 14 years ago today in 2009.  8-12" for the QC, about a foot for much of central and eastern Iowa.  At least we have events like this to look back on and reminisce lol.