Snownado

3-4" seems like a safe bet for the northern Indy suburbs. I'll take it.

I love how it shows a greater chance of 3" in Cinci than Indy. Isn't Cinci further south ?

1 hour ago, StormfanaticInd said:

This is a widespread threat 

KIND says mainly a rain event.

2 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

lol midwesterners are known as being friendly. If you think they are not, id stay away from the east and west coasts if I were you

Midwesterners are "polite". Not overly friendly in my experience compared to places like Texas and Oklahoma. Midwesterners just seem very very anti-social. They pretty much keep to themselves and don't really strike up conversations with strangers. Im sure people who have always lived in the midwest don't even notice this, but I've lived all over and am very observant.

Some of you people remind me of why I can't stand so many midwesterners. I miss that southern hospitality. 

I hate inversions. Why does it seem like Indiana has more inversions compared to places on the east coast and the south ? Is it all because of Lake Michigan ? Im just trying to understand why clouds are more stubborn here than in Atlanta or New York.

7 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

impatience is all around, but a pattern change and pattern shakeup is imminent. The details are unknown, but its definitely a wintrier, more active look then the complete zzzz thats been in place at least a week.

With the dead of Winter approaching I looked up snowcover as a metric to see when the highest percentage of time with snow on the ground was for Detroit.  The highest likelihood of having snow on the ground is January 6th to February 17th, with the best time, aka the dead of Winter, being January 25th to February 3rd.  Interestingly it's almost 3 times as likely to have snow on the ground on March 1st as it is on December 1st.

That's interesting that Detroit is 3 times as likely to have snow on fhe ground on March 1 than Dec 1. I can only assume the avg temps are colder on March 1 than Dec 1.

We will be at the half way point of winter on Thursday. What a horrible first half in Indy.  Unless the second half delivers something memorable this will be a winter to forget.

11 minutes ago, mississaugasnow said:

Im thinking most of January is a dud. Not saying something random couldn't come about, look at Texas-Alabama right now lol.

But overall Im okay with it because if it means February can be rocking then we have a warm early spring hopefully. I love March with highs in the 40s/50s and sun with clear chilly nights in the low 20s. 

Highs in the 40s in March is considered warm ? Sounds awfully cold to me. Im hoping to see 70s in March.

Who wouldve thought that Jackson, MS would be under a Winter Storm Warning before Indy?

3 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

I know you're new to the north, but cloudy skies dominate Nov thru Apr. The worst combination a sun worshipper can have is a mild winter and a cold spring. it will be gray nearly constantly.

At least in Indy, the % of possible sunshine increases from 35% in Dec to 44% in Jan to around 50% in Feb. So we should be past the cloudiest time of year.

This is one of those REALLY crappy weather weeks. Cloudy and cold day after day. No precip. Just cloudy. 

This says it all folks. Look at all that snow in the south compared to Indy.

19 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said:

Grew up in Kentucky and do the same. I'm excited for literally any flake of snow. 

I grew up along the I-20 corridor where we would go years without even getting a flake !

4 minutes ago, Malacka11 said:

Exactly. Storms that we in the Midwest and the northeast can't possibly appreciate would make someone's day down south. It's just so much more rare that if they get their once-a-winter opportunity, I'm not gonna bitch about it.

As someone who has lived in the south most of my life, i miss the excitement that even the smallest of snows brings down there. Up here, if there's a 1-3" snow nobody even mentions it. Last weekend when they were calling for 1-2" in Indy ( which never materialized) i was super pumped up and stayed up until 4am and then gave up. I just hope to see the ground covered again before winter is over.

2 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said:

I'm much less bitter when the south gets snow than the northeast, that's for darn sure. 

Im more bitter when the south gets snow since my family lives there and i don't want them to rub it in.

8 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Pessimism is understandable with how things have been going, but I think you could add Atlanta, Birmingham and Dallas together and Indy will still come out on top by the time it's over.

There's talk of this being the most favorable winter weather pattern in 10 years across the south ! An epic, possibly once in a lifetime winter is in store down there. Why can't we have any fun up here ?

The people in the south are going crazy. It would be nuts if Atlanta and Birmingham get more snow than Indy this winter, but i think that will happen.

2 minutes ago, Baum said:

man, ILX got their pants pulled down big time.

Was any part of their area even under a Warning ? The public deserves better than this. No excuses for such poor forecasting.

I've never seen a place get so much cold and so little snow as Central Indiana. Lots of cloudy, cold days but not much snow.

2 minutes ago, zinski1990 said:

I swear were cursed in Central Indiana 

It does seem like places to our east in OH and west in IL have had more snow this winter. Am i wrong ?

7 hours ago, Hoosier said:

This system had overachiever written all over it as we were discussing in the January thread.  Just wasn't sure exactly where.

I hardly call getting no snow when 1-2" was forecast an overavhiever. Maybe an overachiever for some areas.

What happened to the snow in the Northern Indy suburbs ? I was expecting to wake up to a blanket of snow and there's nothing.

Indy is only at 27 at 1pm and the forecast high is 35. Not sure it will even make it to the 30 today. 

NWS has really lowered the forecast highs for tomorrow. The other day it was 54, then 50 yesterday, now 44.