TheClimateChanger

BVI has been below .75 mile visibility since 6:15, down to .25 mile at 7:55 am. https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KBVI.html

At the worst, I couldn’t even see my neighbor’s outdoor lighting. Visibility must have been 50-100 yards.

It’s absolutely insane here right now. Near zero visibility.

Weatherbug was showing a couple strikes near New Castle earlier.

Lightning has been detected in the snow squall.

Lol, not the same person at all.

Thanks for the update, Don. Wild start to February. Almost exactly "normal" through the first 4 days, but actually 20F warmer than normal in the northern Rockies and 20F colder than normal in parts of the Eastern U.S. Very spring-like 73F in Rapid City, SD yesterday (2F shy of February monthly record high), while the deep freeze continues in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes.

Possibly, but I'm also factoring in the fact that we are aging and our remaining lifetime is less. So most of don't have another 50 years or more.

Wow, that's quite impressive IMO, considering 1991-2020 was, by far, the warmest climatological normal period in recorded history. And the last 20 years are outpacing them by 0.6-1F across the board. One would think the warmer norms would tilt the scale towards more cooler than normal years, but, in fact, one finds the opposite phenomenon. Very intriguing.

Surprised to see some areas of freezing drizzle on my way into work today.

You're welcome, Bob. I didn't bring it up. Just think we should be accurate if we're going to claim the forecasts were wrong for that period. We have a lot of weather forecasters and meteorologists on here, and it's bad enough to be slammed for a missed forecast, let alone forecasts that were correct.

Yeah, now that I think about it... I think it's there CDAS or whatever that shows the past anomalies that always seems to show an anomalously cooler area over Lake Superior. But that might be a problem with the lake temperature dataset.

Shouldn't be that dramatic of a discrepancy though... the 1991-2020 normals are generally ~0.5F, maybe 1F warmer, than the 1981-2010 normals for most places. After all, they share 20 years.

It looks like they fixed whatever always led to a big negative departure over Lake Superior.

I don't think this snow will be any match for the strong February sun angle.