Malacka11

Obligatory pls lmk if this is nonsense. Y'all know I'm the premier climate change believer ofc, but the one vibe this winter in isolation hasn't given me yet is that it's suddenly that much harder to get snow at our latitude. It's a bad winter for meteorological reasons far beyond my understanding, but it's not like it's been torching the entire time and only snowing up north. There just really hasn't been shit anywhere. For that reason -and please don't take this as me trying to sugarcoat a shit winter- this season's L's aren't quite as depressing as last year's were (again, in isolation) where we kept being just a bit too warm every time or something.

44 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

I think any snow melting weather is gross lol. I loathed seeing the sun today haha. 

I agreed completely, especially considering the upcoming cool down. But with the snowpack damage done  yesterday already, I can't let myself be a downer today

At the risk of sounding like a shitposter like the rest of yall, this warm spell kind of just ruined me because I realized I literally dgaf about getting snow momentarily. The warmth feels so nice

3 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

confirmed

I think I'd rather suffer like we have been than endure three storms back to back missing somehow, which seems to be the plan over there as of now

38 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

I've been really hesitant to talk about the upcoming potential pattern change.

For one, the can has been getting kicked down the road as to when when it will occur. But also, when it does occur, there like three different directions it may go.

Are two and a half of them shit?

3 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

u get buried down there?

Regrettably I just woke up now and it's hard to say, definitely not more than an inch. But it's fresh again out, which is already an over performance for this one. What more can you ask for these days

Time to see if at least the city can reel the next Michigan special in a lil

Hoping the mini event moving through tonight over performs a little. Looks like definitely north 

Lol global warming who hurrdurr

5 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

because some of you really need it.

You're a king.

9 minutes ago, Brian D said:

Looks like a quick 0.5-1" of snow this aftrn with a front moving through. Hopefully that weekend clipper will give me a couple more. Any Lake bands would be welcome as winds turn E to NE. Very brown still after the warmer end to Dec, along with the rain we had here in town. 

Is it at all normal for you to have bare ground going into mid-January?

Grass will be covered. Final call.

12 minutes ago, DocATL said:

I’m not sure if I can make it three days @Malacka11 . I’m trying.


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I'm struggling too believe me. But fr, we look good for at least the grass being covered for next week. And we also at least don't seem to be losing the signal for a shot or two later in the month 

2 minutes ago, DocATL said:

Alright break it up break it up…three day moratorium.


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Now that I got my vent out, idc what happens with this Friday system as long as it doesn't end up being another balloon knot-puckeringly close miss, which certainly seems a strong possibility.

Personally I get the vibe that we in N IL need to stop being so pessimistic right about now because like Alek says, the clippers are coming, and like Cyclone said, there's a lurking sign for something around the 18th through the 20th. Yea yea obviously it can all go to shit and ensembles this ensembles that, but like guys just shelf the pessimism for a few days and let's turn into real assholes if it doesn't pan out and/or things go straight back to shit afterwards for February (which some might consider a W at that point, again like others have said).

I'm not even saying that the upcoming stretch is in any way more remarkable than the ones that have mostly not materialized or not produced so far this year (y'all know I'm not qualified to make that judgement), but ffs at this point this board is depressing me more than my actual life is. And ofc shit weather is shit weather, don't polish turds etc. etc., but just stfu for three days and if it still looks like ass then we can be sad again. Deal?

9 minutes ago, Vol4Life said:

Don’t have access to UKIE…what is it showing?

Just so you know, the ukmet is available for free on pivotal weather complete with at least 10:1 snowfall products https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ukmo_global

16 minutes ago, mimillman said:

Friday could put down our first lasting ground coverage of the season. Outside of the November snow which melted same day, ground has been bare all year 

That's my hope. Finesse enough to cover the grass and then build on it with a clipper or two or something.

3 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

Looking forward to a thick cirrus canopy with some dim sunshine from time to time.  

Yeah dude you've really been getting boned this year right? Hopefully we'll cash in soon

Here's to hoping I can eek out a half inch before another week of boredom

Not even fucking cold yet and my car battery still died overnight. I'm definitely due to get a new one though so I can't be mad. Nothing will beat losing a fuel injector right after the glorified Christmas fropa of '22

1 hour ago, Cary67 said:

During these days of CAD miss hardypalmguy updates on his palm trees. 

Dude that guy faded from memory completely holy cow

Somebody please lmk how the 18z Euro looks my broke ass does not feel like waiting until Tropical tidbits roles out

Is the NAM even that much of a northerly outlier? Seems like basically every model gets the snow shield *about* that far north

22 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Circa-2007 wagons north trend incoming. @cyclone77 to me jackpot. You heard it here first. 

I get the vibe too tbh

Can someone pretty please explain to me what our expectations should be like regarding wind with this system? My understanding is limited essentially to "bigger pressure gradient = more wind" but I got no idea about the nuances. 

We could always just jump for a timeshare up in snow belt