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I was looking around last night, and I'm not 100% sure but I think yesterday was Madison's earliest 90 since 1980. 2012 wasn't until May 19th and the other 90+ record highs are from before 1980. And I am struggling to think of any other year between then and now that could have maybe had 90's before now. Maybe 1988 but that's about it. The 1980 90+ was the absoutely ridiculous 94 on 4/22/1980, which is probably one of the most anomalous temperature days we have ever had.

Nothing like having all day snow flurries on *checks notes* April 26th. At least in the longer range it's looking like this week will probably the last of the real cold stuff. After tomorrow night we don't get near freezing for lows for at least the next 5 days. Even with still lackluster highs in the 50's, that should finally get us going for greenup around here. About time.

Models have been pretty consistently showing at least a medium level severe threat on our region on the 12th and 13th. The 12th has triple point potential out in Iowa and the 13th could be a very large part of the forum. The 13th already has most of illinois under a 15 or 30 percent on the day 4-8 outlook. This could be a very active few days of severe weather.

Today was day 11 with at least a trace of precipitation at KGRB. That has to be getting close to a record for KGRB. We probably have a break here the next two days, but then have more chances of rain pretty much all week next week. Since March 5th we have had over 7.5" of rain, including the rainiest March on record for KGRB with essentially 6". Any semblance of drought here from over the fall and winter is totally gone, at least short-term. It will be very interesting to see if this wet pattern continues later into the spring or if we go back into the dry pattern from fall and winter. Now only if we could get some warmth with this and we will be right back on schedule for green-up.

I give this winter a solid D+. We have had all of 25.6" snow this winter at Madison. And most of that is from the three clippers in the end of january and from a couple weeks ago. We just now left the top 10 least snowiest winters list. We haven't even had a 6"+ snowfall this winter, barring anything weird happening in the next month. The only pluses about this winter were that what little snow we did have on the ground stayed around for quite a while with the cold January. And thanks to this winter's dryness we had an unusually sunny January, or at least it felt like that. And while yes 12/15 was an awesome storm that's going to be remembered for quite a while, it really sucked from a pure winter perspective. Overall just a cold, dry, incredibly boring winter.

Forgot to post this yesterday, not too much change this week for the most part. Some slight reduction in Illinois and Northern Minnesota, but that's about it.

Yeah the way this winter has been with barely any snow but just constant cold dry NW flow is literally how a North Dakota winter is most of the time.

Washburn has a serious shot IMO of breaking the official 24 hr state record for snowfall of 26" set in 1904 in Neillsville. For reference: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/scec/records/all/maxs. Now that does come with the caveat that we likely have had some LE events by Hurley that have broke that record, there's just no stations where the max snowfall normally occurs.

I am so glad that I went from almost a foot to 4 inches. Not from SE trend, but a N trend. F*** this winter.

Can't wait for this to end up weak and over Springfield as well.

Well things just got worse in this week's drought monitor.

This may be a bit early, but considering the incredibly lackluster winter so far for most of the region and the antecedent dry conditions, I think it's time for this thread. Most of the northern and western areas of the Midwest have been dealing with some sort of drought for at least the last 8-9 months if not over a year. Last year was a top 10-15 driest year for much of this part of the region. The extended forecast and climate indices show no sign of this changing anytime soon. We are entering a second La Nina year, which often lead to some of our hottest and driest years in the Midwest. We have had expanding drought through the winter, which doesn't happen very often in our climate. Now obviously there is the caveat that all it takes is a wet period in spring to erase the drought, but that doesn't seem very likely this spring.

The over running alignment is different and the storm is south and weaker.

December 20th, 2012 says hi.

Well this is the weenie run of the century for Wisconsin. I mean nothing much, just over 2 feet of snow over a good quarter of the state. Oh and breaking a ton of records for snowfall and snow depth. Good thing this is Hr 252 and totally has a shot of verifying as a 2-4" over Detroit. Man I couldn't even imagine a storm like that.

Ahh Black River Falls and Sparta, the cold air drainage capitals of the midwest. Without fail those areas are usually the coldest or second coldest in setups like this.

Man to have a year drier than not only 2012, but 1988 and 1989 too is insane. And to think if it weren't for the last two weeks of june and the second week of august it would probably be a sub 20" year. Those two periods are legit the only reason why this year didn't enter the drought pantheon years despite the low precip. Very similar to 2005 in that regards. Unfortunately, this coming year is probably going to really suck for drought. We are already having expanding severe drought in the southern part of the state and it's January. If we don't have a wet spring which considering it's a 2nd year Nina is not very likely, we are going to be in serious trouble come May and June.

Can we please do this? Maybe just a touch SE so I'm not so close to the gradient but other than that this is pretty much perfect.

Wow did the wind just pick up in the last 15 minutes here. Can hear it outside and my dorm door is just going nuts from the pressure differences. What's left of the line is going to be in the next 5 minutes, so this should be fun.

I figured that their should be a thread for this storm at this point with the wind threat and unusual warmth. The models are really starting to hone in on a major wind event tomorrow night for most of the region. Some runs like the 0z GFS even have 70-75mph gusts for multiple locations, especially in Iowa, Northern Illinois and Wisconsin. This could be the largest non-Tstorm wind threat in at least 5 years if not since the Chiclone of 2010 for some areas. I'm increasingly worried about power outages, as our grid is not really used to such sustained heavy winds. Add in the incredibly unusual warmth for this time of year (Madison looks to break their monthly record) and the Iowa severe threat, this is shaping up to be quite the storm for the area despite the lack of wintry weather.

So far this is looking like a potentially pretty solid hit up here by Green Bay. Models have us in the 6-8" range. If this pans out we wlil actually have a pretty decent snowpack going. Too bad it's going to melt in the torch of the century afterwards.

Had about an inch from this event. Really only accumulated on roofs and open grassy surfaces, barely anything under trees or on pavement. I was surprised at how long it lasted, all of yesterday and most of the day today had at least some snow on the ground. Overall a pretty classic late fall snowfall.

No, no, and hell no. He's so bad. I don't get why he's so popular among weenies on this forum. Every winter it's like Bastardi said this or Bastardi predicited that. Like who cares? He's never been that good at forecasting to begin with. Plus there's the whole climate change denier thing which just makes him 1000x worse. Like how can you be a weather forecaster and not believe in climate change at this point? I just don't get it.

Can we reawaken the covid thread so the rest of us can ignore this stuff? Please?