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There's that slide south, perfect timing lmao.

Why can't the Euro be king anymore?

Which is why I don't remember that winter being so impressive, just miserable f**king cold for way too long without a break.

My ideal April day is 74/68 with a high risk of severe thunderstorms. When has that happened in this region in the last 20 years?

Remember when the Euro showed something happening, you sat up and took notice?

2014 wasn't bad considering the slow start (although frustrating for me since I missed the Pilger family by an hour and targeted Iowa the following day, but at least the opportunity was there). There were a number of high risks in 2001 but they generally busted. 2017 was meh, but actually one of the better post-2015 seasons, sadly. The event of the year locally happened before I was ready for it (February 28th).

Great, down to a 4/27/11's worth (give or take a hundred) of deaths per day and that'll be great progress. This whole thing has really made weather seem a lot less awe-inspiring (that combined with the extended period of atmospheric suckitude in the central CONUS).

You know it's bad when Angry posts something that makes sense.

About as stark a contrast as you can get between those two sets of analogs. I sure as hell don't know what to make of it. Granted ENSO isn't the only large-scale driver of severe weather potential but it'd be much more confidence-inspiring to see things leaning more 1974/2008/2011-ish than 2006/09/12/18, although the line seems rather fine. Also, at least anecdotally, 2012 behaved nothing like the other years in that group being extremely warm and dry throughout the central CONUS from March through about September. Also, shouldn't this be "2021 ENSO" by now? Seeing as we skipped over 2020.

Which one did you get?

Finally coming down here, pavement and parked cars lightly coated.

Wasn't it supposed to be snowing by now?

Still cold enough to make my knuckles bleed...and not a one day warm enough for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2008_tornado_outbreak

I'mma need it to not snow on Thursday, k? I've got Wed-Friday off this week and I had planned some travel, but as a rule I don't drive when snow is falling unless absolutely necessary.

Very interesting article from New York magazine. I've been dead-set opposed to any suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from anything other than a natural spillover event, because the insinuation that it was lab-created in China whether intentionally as a bioweapon, or by accident has almost from the beginning been used as a blame-shifting excuse by the ***** admin and its MAGAhead sycophants. However, this article goes into great depth about the risks of so-called "Gain-of-function" research and makes a plausible case that an accidental release at the Wuhan Institute of Virology could have been the final link in a chain that began with a bat coronavirus that infected its first humans (through massive overexposure, and couldn't transmit between humans at the time) all the way back in 2012, in southern China hundreds of miles from Wuhan. I'm not saying it's convinced me, but it's certainly opened my mind a little more to the possibility. Make sure you have ample time and some popcorn, it's a lengthy read. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

I have at times found myself driving in snow when none was in the forecast, pulled up my radar app and gone "WTF?! There's nothing here."

The equivalent (or more) of a 9/11 or about 2 Titanic's worth of deaths in this country every day from this one cause (or in weather terms, about 1 1/2 Hurricane Katrinas or 8-9 4/27/11s) but they're mostly elderly and probably would have died within 10 years anyway so sure, no big deal.

I'm definitely in the "go big or go home" camp. I like stuff that's meteorologically impressive/unusual. Sustained cold/built-up snowpack doesn't do anything for me since I'm not into snowmobiling and the like.

After a brief intermission due to the sun-induced melt yesterday, the Great Midwest Rime Ice (Not Hoarfrost) Party of 2021 has resumed. Today might actually have been the most spectacular day yet. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Yep, back to the same old grind. We could see about a week straight of this.

I'll jump on the hoarfrost train. Got more with my DSLR. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Another epic fail of a chase "season." Sequences like May 4-10, 2003, May 21-30, 2004 and May 22-June 12, 2008 (2010 wasn't bad either, between 5/10, Bowdle and the June events) seem to be a thing of the past. 2019 tried but each day had issues that led to them coming in below their ceiling, with unfavorable storm modes and the like (plus the abominable wildfire haze). I'm finding it harder and harder to go into spring with the same anticipation that I used to because my expectations keep getting crushed. Kind of like how @beavis1729 feels about winter.

Great, just in time for my birthday (not that I have any plans or am going anywhere this year)...

Car facing me was clean when it was parked there. Two forward-parked cars to the left have not been cleaned off since Tuesday night's snowfall. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Light snow has commenced in Madison. Band of >30dbz returns is just southeast of us. @madwx @Luftfeuchtigkeit @Geoboy645