Malacka11

Go big or go home

Stuck with the last little crack of dry air over head 

Flakes just started flying here

34 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

There was so much carrying on about snowfall amounts falling short with the pre-Christmas storm, I kept thinking, were you guys actually out in it? Road conditions were terrible. 

Right! The morning after is what made it truly memorable for me. The snow was blowing so hard that even in daylight you could hardly see a hundred feet ahead of you. 

2 minutes ago, wintertime said:

I digress. It's not the same. It started with people complaining about the NWS dropping the ball by not issuing a winter storm warning instead of a winter weather advisory. That's what I've been discussing. It's getting ridiculous at this point. Really, enough said about it. Lol

I'll bet you my left nut that snowstorms kill far more people than tornadoes do so it's actually totally the same. 

2 minutes ago, wintertime said:

That would have happened to you whether there was a winter storm warning issued or not. Why where you out there in those conditions to begin with in a winter storm warning knowing the conditions were as bad as they were? Why? Because it's life. You wanted and decided to be out there. You knew the risk. People can manage their lives in snow. If you tell them how much snow you are forecasting to fall, people will adjust their lives. People aren't stupid. Neither are businesses. Give them an accumulation forecast and they will adjust their lives and businesses accordingly.

I took the risk because I presumed that nothing stupid like that would happen to me and because I knew I'd almost certainly be okay no matter what since I'm in the suburbs. However, the warning specifically highlighted things that the average Joe will definitely not figure out for themselves unless you hammer them home, primarily that the windchill and blowing snow means You're fucked if you get caught in the middle of nowhere. Hence why I say that if that would've happened to me like a couple counties south in the middle of nowhere, it would've have been a very dicey situation. The entire point of the NWS is to make everyone's lives easier by offering reliable forecasts. I don't see why we would want to strip their ability to do their job away from them. Not all winter threats are built the same, why is that so controversial? It can snow an inch overnight and not even warrant an advisory, or it could snow an inch in the middle of rush hour with cold road temperatures and fuck everything. Most people I know don't even start checking the weather until they catch wind of some sort of bigger story brewing, so methinks that a large number of advisory events would slip through the cracks until they show up out of nowhere and make you 45 minutes late for work. And guess who gets blamed if that happens?

I can speak from firsthand experience that winter headlines make all the difference not just to individuals but to businesses that rely on them. Just because your mom doesn't know or care about the difference between 1" and 4" in the forecast doesn't mean that the difference doesn't have a major impact on society as a whole. An argument that all of this nuance doesn't matter is seriously riddled with naivete.

Anyone who thinks this year's Christmas storm didn't deserve a warning definitely did not drive around in it. I lost a fuel injector about half way through the 20 minute drive to my SO's apartment, and I barely managed to limp the car there the rest of the way. Thank fuck it's a short drive in a fairly populated area, idk what I would've done out in the middle of bumfuck. 

I'll do any weather except hurricanes. Idk how mfers post up a kilometer from the ocean knowing it's basically a matter of time till their house gets swept away. Summer derechos do the trick for me. 

Edit: One day I'd love to chase a hurricane tho

7 minutes ago, Baum said:

might be the first real spread the wealth event that includes the Iowa/N. IL/N. IN/N. Ohio trek all winter minus the pre Christmas Arctic wave. Shame ratios will be pretty rough. But based on 12Z runs time to get invested.

If we get that clipper behind it to wring out an inch or something this would be basically the only snowy stretch of the winter no? As in multiple snowfalls in semi close order?

19 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

North, South, East, West. There really isn’t a direction this thing can trend away from MSP.

 

Ready 2b buried 

4 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

rainer

Cringe

2 minutes ago, madwx said:

A cool mid month pattern looks to kick off with a significant snowstorm.  GFS putting up laughable totals north of the Wisconsin/Illinois border but regardless this looks like it will require advisories/warnings.

I literally had the fucking thread creating window open and was about to  look at naming conventions when this popped up 

Bit of a jog south across the board this morning, I'm hoping that we get another one or two of those. Even if it ends up being a marginal kind of deal looks like a decent front end thump type of thing. Right?

We gonna make a thread for the 9th-10th or...

I'm actually so excited for popcorn t-storm season. And Afternoon/evening squall season. Really hope we get a couple nader opportunities too.

26 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

A really nice sunset: storm total 

It's okay we'll bag the next one. Lol.

Like Baum said, I'm ready to chase the next ball kicker. This looks like a much more interesting setup no?

29 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

Euro back to trolling the poor souls of northern IL/southeast IA. 

 

Nice little maximum (close to) in your backyard huh

Coping hard but we got an interesting sunset out of it at least over here. The edge of the cloud deck is visible to the west with blood orange skies beyond. It's the little things 

20 minutes ago, MidwestChaser said:

I don't think I'll even get rain out of this.

You and me both. Probably just a few miles away from you rn, been watching the edge of the precip just slowly edge closer and then stop in its tracks.

Band of heavy returns about to pivot over dupage like molasses taking a shit.

The system around 180 hours out catches my eye because it looks like if it happens, it might be a less thermally marginal setup (right?). I guess if it isn't a shitter sludge storm then I'd be more open to one last chance. 

3 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

That is not the way. Project our bitterness and disappointment across borders. WHITE RAIN FOR ALL. 

Yeah true fuck all of you /s

I must concede of course that this is going to be just another painfully close mess for the Chi-Town crew, but I hope it overproduces somewhere at least instead of bitching out at the last minute.

Still like where I'm at, this is totally gonna be one of those now casting north western shifters

2 minutes ago, Lightning said:

How does the Brazilian model look??  

Lays down the white stuff imby like coke on a hooker's back

Edit: so about four sleet pellets worth