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Excuse me while I go punch a wall.

Visibility way down, can barely see the trees on the hill across the street. @madwx @Luftfeuchtigkeit

My commute home should be "interesting..." Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Thought it was for all types of weather.

Shades of 2013-'14. My first winter back here after 3 years in Milwaukee (and first in Madison proper since childhood). With having a job that starts at 3 AM, having to brush/scrape snow or a least a thin layer of frost off all the windows of my car in single digits or colder every morning for like 9 weeks straight got real old. Garbage/recycling started to pile up because the trucks couldn't get to the Dumpsters at the back of the lot.

If it has to be cold...better than cold and boring!

In other words, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Still a watch per MKX site.

So strange. I went to UWGB and it was invariably snowier there than at home (Stoughton/Madison) except for 2007-08, my senior year, when we had some big storms over both areas (although GB area was less affected by the early Jan torch, so held on to its snowcover better).

Wow, this is starting to look big time (although unfortunately, not for SE MI...again). I doubt it can actually produce >6" of snow over the vast majority of WI, but just seeing it on a map is impressive. Little different than a rainy cutter, eh?

@madwx @Luftfeuchtigkeit

I think it was early January 2019, we had an Arctic outbreak where it was in the single digits either side of zero with bare ground. Puke.

Because guys are dumb. Although have seen women wearing skirts/dresses outside while it's in the single digits, but it's less common and they're usually (a) not outside for very long and (b) heavily bundled up top.

Something something sun angle yadda yadda.

We here over to Chicago probably have considerably more OTG.

It's also the 10th anniversary of the beginnings of GHD I. A short video I took from where I was living in Milwaukee at the time, notice how the cars are mostly clean due to the wind:

I need you to find me 11,780 inches of snow. BIG CONSEQUENCES if you don't!

My fiance's car parked across the street is mostly clean just from the wind we had with the snow. Only the ones parked in that part of the front lot in the building's "wind shadow" are completely covered.

So we go from a 975 MB MS River cutter to this?

Thundersnow reported in Darlington (SW WI) per a Facebook post.

Seems like that is an issue for us with every storm. I remember one storm (I think the winter before last) that was supposed to be a big dog for us, but we either busted the warning or just barely made criteria because the first few hours were lost to dry air resulting in either nothing or pixie dust flakes.

It's a tradeoff between raw numbers with the fluffier stuff and I think higher impacts with the wetter stuff. Harder to shovel and it sticks to your car tires and further reduces traction. The first notable accumulating snow we had (the one before Christmas which mostly melted by then) was wet and heavy, and I had to charge the hill out of my apartment building's parking lot about ten times praying my car wouldn't get stuck before I finally made it up to the road. Had the pedal to the metal, front wheels spinning like mad spraying snow everywhere, and moving at maybe 2 MPH. That, plus spinning out twice this winter on just the thin-packed layer left on secondary roads from snow events days earlier, prompted me to get new tires.

A quick question about ratios to make sure I'm understanding them right. A 10:1 ratio would mean you take the QPF and multiply it by 10 to get expected inches of snow, correct? In other words, 0.1" = 1"?

Encouraging to see some active severe weather seasons on those analogs, although not necessarily stellar from a Plains chaser perspective (apart from 1999 and 2008). 2017 wasn't ideal but not the worst of the lackluster half-decade plus that we've been in (tie between 2018 and 2020 IMO).