CheeselandSkies

The day Salina, KS has 46" on the ground while we have like 4" I will literally eat a hat. Although, I like the idea of building up a big snowpack over the Plains. Might help forestall the standard La Niña drought and help chase season '21 be rockin'.

Yeah WTH happened to the "King"?

When does that happen anymore in this sub, for winter or severe? A big dog is forecast for days AND it actually pans out as such.

Interesting tension there as I was of the understanding that -AO is favorable for snow/cold in the central and eastern CONUS...but so is SSW.

Looks like dry air ate up the dusting we were supposed to get overnight.

La Niña can be such a mixed bag. You have years like 2011 (obviously an extreme example but the general idea of being dangerous in Dixie holds), which wasn't great in the Plains/Midwest in May/June apart from that late-May series which included Joplin, 2012 which aside from a couple early outbreaks was obliterated by drought, and 2008 which was IMO one of the best all-around severe seasons in my memory, although I could have done without so much flooding. Activity commenced with that early January N IL/SE WI outbreak, Super Tuesday in Dixie, and continued right on through peak with about a 3-week stretch of nonstop action from late May through mid-June. ...and ya, 2020 sucked for interesting weather unless you're a hurricane chaser. Even the Cristobal remnants were a downer here, just wasted an early June day on drizzly, blustery conditions more suited to early spring or fall.

February 2018. Snowed well into April and obliterated chase season (didn't think it could get any worse in that regard, then 2020 happened).

As I said in another thread, good thing I use either GR Level 3 (PC), Radarscope (phone), or COD website (public/work computers). Still, shame the official U.S. government forecasting agency has such a poor radar product on their site. Definitely seems like a step backward but it's far from the only one.

Yes it does. Who decided that was a good idea? Good thing I've used GR Level 3 almost exclusively since I got it, Radarscope (on my phone), or COD website (when on a public/shared device that doesn't have either of the aforementioned applications).

Yikes. They didn't even put the "child" locks on to prevent him from doing that.

From the LR thread: 2 hours ago, Cary67 said: A clipper miss to the north and the rinse repeat El Nino track providing winter from Detroit and Central Ohio and pts east through the end of the month. Outside of the 2 day rainer giving us all our December precip its been warm and dry since late October. I feel like storm systems used to spin up in the lee of the Rockies and then raise hell (winter + severe) from there to the east coast throughout winter and spring. For the better part of the last decade it seems like everything forms/intensifies east of us. The only impact events the Midwest gets anymore are sneaky mesoscale accidents like the August derecho.

I saw the footage this morning. The prisoner escaped while the company driver was ordering at a McDonald's drive-thru.

Chief met at my works' forecast of mostly cloudy skies today not looking so hot.

So, I was just reviewing my outdoor photos taken around southern Wisconsin during the 2006-'07 winter and I noticed something... In photos taken on December 29, 2006, there was BARE GROUND. Not a trace of snow anywhere. In photos taken on March 11, 2007, there were large dirty piles/glaciers on every curb and in every parking lot. The melt-off was well underway, but clearly a LOT of snow fell during that roughly 10-week interval. I don't recall the particulars of that winter in southern Wisconsin very well since I spent the bulk of it in northeast Wisconsin while attending UW-Green Bay (kind of like what @Geoboy645 is doing now), but I recall it being pretty snowy up there as well. So there is hope...maybe it won't meet Beavis standards, but at least it's something for the rest of us.

So you're back in southern Wisconsin for now?

I have mixed feelings about this.

View out my window this morning.

1.5" at Freeport, IL as of 0300 according to a report marker that popped up on my GR Level 3.

That's how I feel about chase season every year when "winter" decides to show up from the back half of March through April and sometimes the front half of May.

Fatal enough for 2-3,000 people per day in this country alone.

I was gonna say, that map shows nothing for MSP!

Was a time when it used to snow in December in Wisconsin...not so very long ago either. This is from 12/15/2007 in Plymouth, WI. Pretty much all of eastern WI was getting a heavy coating that day. Soo, Steam, Smoke, Snow & Swinging Signals by Andy, on Flickr

The sad thing is, 4-6 degrees above normal in Wisconsin in December isn't exactly warm, so when the inevitable flip to BN occurs right around the spring equinox, it effectively keeps us at roughly the same temperature (highs 35-45, lows 25-35) for about 5 months straight.

That's how my fiance and I found out we had it. It didn't really hit her until the next week.