CheeselandSkies

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.

It'll happen in February just in time to kill chase season...again.

Certainly interesting times ahead although it remains to be seen whether that translates into an active Plains/Midwest spring chase season which it did in 2008, not so much in 2012 where drought/capping dominated everything after a couple of early outbreaks.

Right?

Roughly 1 American every minute is dying of this thing. It's causing the equivalent of a 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina every 2-3 days. bUT IT haS a 99.5$ survIval RAtE... The problem is, when you have such an enormous number of cases, 0.5% of that is still a big number. That (plus the several more percent who get severely ill but survive) is also more than enough to burn out every ICU doctor and nurse in the country.

What's it like to be a TV met there?

Not too excited about what this system and the other ones coming down the pipe have had to offer in the severe department especially considering what this time of year is capable of (11/10/02, 11/15 & 27/05, 11/17/13, 12/1/18).

Nice flocking on the windward side of trees, signs and other objects. First Snow of Winter 2020-21 by Andy, on Flickr First Snow of Winter 2020-21 2 by Andy, on Flickr