iBrian

Has anybody had any cicada sightings yet?

38 minutes ago, CheeselandSkies said:

We've been close to or in the sweet spot with this one for a while...and surprisingly that hasn't really changed.

Should be interesting when I'm trying to leave work around midday Friday.

@madwx I just realized how similar our avatars are ever since I changed mine to a frame from my Keota tornado video; horizon and debris cloud are at about the same level, only difference is my foreground is drab brown since it was taken in March.

grab a beer together, mates!

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

check out this lobe

this sounds like me to my wife...

4 hours ago, Lightning said:

Briefly at accuweather; on from basically the beginning of Eastern; a bit on Harry’s; briefly on another place (I think I was the only one from MI); took a long break; now here. 

Ok, I'll give my backstory, too! I used to be a member of tennesseewx.com then I moved to IL making that no longer relevant - had always heard references to "the morons at americanwx" so I became one

Hurricane Otis - insanity.

man, temps are wild right now.  near 90 in northwest missouri, 150 miles west it's 36.

On 3/23/2023 at 12:34 PM, hardypalmguy said:

Windmill palms. I have several hundred in cultivation.



 

friend once visited vancouver, bc and reported back that they have palm trees.  still gotta see this one.

Just now, iBrian said:

my brazilian ex-girlfriend would agree with you.  she lived in miami i lived in tampa.

oh, and sorry for snagging that old post to reply.  i'm catching up - my phone said im under a warning?

On 3/23/2023 at 8:08 AM, A-L-E-K said:

florida is objectively bad in almost every way but the gulf side is def the worst, total snoozer and just filled to the brim with the worst combination of old folks and rednecks

at least in miami u fell like you're in the tropics not the south and there's action and waves 

my brazilian ex-girlfriend would agree with you.  she lived in miami i lived in tampa.

Went out to shovel the over-an-inch of sleet / ice pellets in Mundelein - just changed over to snow.

On 2/5/2023 at 12:20 PM, cyclone77 said:

It's getting to where if the sun's out and there's little wind it feels warmer than what the temp is.  Sun angle ftw

as my buddy used to say, "when 40 feels like 60."

17 hours ago, Chinook said:

The world's windiest place

 

I need to look up a short documentary on Mt. Washington - why are winds consistently so high on a ~6000 ft. mountain??

2 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

Graupel and +SN in this squall.



 

some good sideways flaking going on in Mundelein...

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

tldr^ riding the ggem to big totals

Maybe I missed it, but still waiting on a call?

21 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Pretty pic but I actually was mad to see the sun today. I don't care that it's been cloudy 95% of the time this Winter or that more snow is on the way, I just can't stand to see sun melting snow lol.

"name checks out"

5 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Rolling these years forward, here were the final snowfall amounts for each.  Pretty ugly overall, with every year finishing with below average snowfall.  

Doesn't mean that this year's total has to fall within this range, but it gives a sense of where the goalposts have been.  If there is one positive, it's that the two years in the 2000s rallied the most to break 30"

 

30.1"  2012-13

19.0"  1912-13

12.0"  1936-37

21.7"  1889-90

24.0"  1943-44

18.2"  1901-02

20.6"  1905-06

????   2022-23

31.1"  2001-02

26.6"  1982-83

21.5"  1922-23

Certainly!  I'm sure we'd all find joy in 29" falling from here on out...

1 hour ago, KokomoWX said:

Interstate 65 north of Indy is frequently a mess without snowy (or near blizzard) conditions.  I'd avoid Friday travel.

@Kaner88could go the Nashville>Paducah>Chicago route up I-57.  That area will have much less impact than northern Indiana.

1 hour ago, hardypalmguy said:

yup, beach house.

I had no problem with Tampa - lived  there 2.5 years until 2019.  Of course, choose your area wisely as with anywhere. It was close enough for me to gravitate to St. Pete Beach a couple of evenings during the week and Anna Maria Island on Sundaze...  

1 hour ago, Chicago Storm said:

I'll be down there in a week and a half. 

Wish timing lined up better for me.

i lived there a few years ago when Irma came through. 95% of people seemed to have evacuated.  Nobody on the roads, Interstate 75 southbound lanes were converted to northbound. all tolls were waived (that'd never happen in Illinois!).  The winds were down to 100 when they reached my part of the area since it came onshore earlier than expected further south. it was amazing to see how well everything held up.  only some fence panels were blown over and signs outside gas stations were busted, but mother nature handled it well. no downed trees that I saw. it was cool leaning into the wind-driven rain at 2:30am wish it'd have come through during daylight.  it was intense!

and HE is from the area of Winter 21/22 Snowfall: 13.5"  let's get some!

38 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

6.1" here as of 930 am. The rates when I woke up at a bit after 8am were really impressive, some of the heaviest since I've been living in the Naper Carriage Hill subdivision (since May 2015). We've since eased back to -SN/borderline SN with a slight recent uptick.

Had told neighborhood friends expecting 6-8" locally, so should fall right in that range. My top end/90th percentile range was 10-12" which would've required that band to be a lot more slow moving. Nice event.


 

In recalling the models and their gradient across Cook County I'd have to say they nailed it.  I'm just about to 2" here in southern Lake County while I see you folks in Cook reporting 6"+.  

1 minute ago, iBrian said:

Having moved to Chicagoland from the south all I have seen is a mass southern migration. Columbus can’t be excluded from this trend.  

Obligatory Part 3 info. Virga here in Lake County, IL. 

4 minutes ago, NTXYankee said:

At the rate Columbus is growing, we’ll surpass Chicago soon enough.  Also this is an Ohio Valley section not Chicago and vicinity.

Having moved to Chicagoland from the south all I have seen is a mass southern migration. Columbus can’t be excluded from this trend.  

14 minutes ago, Baum said:

gorgeous morning out here. Hard to believe that we are on the cusp of a decent winter event

my dog may not come inside today   as my friend used to say, "when 40 feels like 60" with that sunshine...

38 minutes ago, RyanDe680 said:

Why 18?