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12 minutes ago, Chargers09 said:

Good luck with that in an El Niño winter

We’ll torch to the solstice and freeze til the next one. 

2 hours ago, hardypalmguy said:

winter won't play too nice for you, i'm sorry man. 

gas on the flame. you’re a damn good troll I’ll give you that. one of the greats. 

thx for the wishcast, I have one too. 

2 hours ago, hardypalmguy said:

you're too cold this weekend.  it will be way warmer.  probably not as humid.

enjoy the heat. you're schtick has run its course once again, you're about 6 months overdue for your cyclical ban. folks are tolerating your shit as its summer but if you keep the antics up the next few months you're donezo again. maybe tone it down and try to act normal. 

The Rockford airport/RFD obs site has seen significant development and paving over the past 10 years as it has grown to one of the largest cargo airports in the US and for a few recent years the fastest growing cargo airport in the world. It's also UPS's #2 hub and one of Amazon's larger air hubs. Several large maintenance/rebuild/overhaul operators have built large hangers and pads as well. 

Outside of the airport actually development in the RFD region has been minimal since the financial crisis. But of course the actual obs site itself is probably holding on to a fair bit more heat than in the past given many more paved acres in recent years. 

(I'm luckyweather, the board's rockford region regular. for some reason when I log in to the board in a browser it has my old screenname, vs same login on tapatalk on mobile, some tapatalk weirdness BS. whatevs.)

Hunga Tonga volcano had low sulfur content / high water, kind of the opposite of normal, so instead of cooling we get warming. saw 10-15% increase in stratospheric h2o content. this+nino, going to be very interesting to see how this unfolds for the next several seasons. 

 

Feels inappropriate to follow up Chicago Storm's excellent analysis with this model diarrhea. I present the 12z run of the 384hr gfs with an accum map that I hope doesn't portend the winter to come. 

Decided to head up to Wausau, WI at the last minute today to take advantage of some possible skiing while the snow comes down tomorrow. looking like 6+" is a solid bet, although thermals are questionable, just hoping its snow more hours than fzdz / fzra.