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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

FIFY.

It would seem insane RI close to land is not just an Atlantic/GoM phenomenon this year.

This is how I feel about spring and severe weather. Not wasting 2/3 of it on moisture-scouring cold fronts, getting 2 or 3 "setups" that may or may not bust, then flipping right to summer doldrums. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

From the beginning it caught my attention that COVID-19 was causing daily death tolls in Italy greater than just about all the weather disasters in the U.S. this century apart from Hurricane Katrina. That's when I knew this was no flu.

Rage-tweeting and spamming lawsuits in MI, PA, WI, GA, AZ and NV.