cyclone77

2026 season will be rockin'

Yeah unfortunately it looks like they'll be out over the lake by kickoff. Hopefully a few more showers pop up later in the game.

Flurries are a fluttering.

Picked up a T of snow early this morning. Top 1 event of the month so far.

Sure had a great start to this winter season from Turkey day until about Dec 10th. The big storm Nov 30th definitely made the whole winter. It's just a shame that we have to pay for that with what will be a 6-8+ week stretch of very little snowy weather. Definitely looking like a garbage pattern for the foreseeable future, but hopefully we can bookend this season with more storminess. No matter what this already destroys last winter's futile excuse of a winter.

Hopefully February delivers.

Final total here remains at 0.34". Pretty lame considering the strength of the system, and what occurred northwest and over in Chicagoland.

Almost 60 with mid 50 dews. Could easily be 75 degrees colder right now here in mid January.

Had a few breaks in the cloud cover a short while ago which revealed just how much shear there is in the lower atmosphere. Looked very ominous as the dark low clouds were ripping northwestward beneath fast northeastward moving mid-level cloud cover. Sky looked pretty tornadic. Probably not too far off from having a little tor setup. Picked up 0.34" today.

Nice. It's looked like November here for going on 3 weeks.

Hopefully next weekend's system does something. This weekend's system is a non-event for most areas other than Wisconsin and Michigan.

70s in the Plains and -50s up in northwest Canada. Only a 120+ degree difference.

At least there's something to watch. I'll take a rainer over nothing TBH.

Like the title says, just one. If you could pick one wintry event (has to be in your own lifetime) to relive which would it be, and why? There's so many great events over the decade to choose from, but for me it's gotta be December 14-15 1987. To this day I've never seen so much lightning and thunder during a blizzard. It was truly remarkable. Winds gusting 60-70mph, the lightning, and the incredible bombing that system did the evening of the 14th was about as good as it gets. We even had bursts of heavy sleet mix in at times, but it didn't cut down on the snow accumulations too much. This event is probably one of the main reasons I got into the wintry side of weather. This would be incredible to watch unfold with today's technology.

Only 6 more weeks till we gotta start worrying about the sun angle.

Clippers are just to occupy us between the dogs lol

Euro looks like crickets through mid month. We'll probably get 2 weeks of action at the end of Jan, and then another 5-6 weeks of CAD/Michigan clippers through early March.

Looks like the next system of note will be a rainer around Jan 9th-10th.

Had a 45 min period of very light rain/sprinkles. Picked up a T.

Looking like mostly rain here on the far southwest edge of today's wave.

Picked up 0.3" from a wave of light snow earlier. Up to 18.1" for the season now. Last year at this time we only had 1.9" lol.

Getting a few flurries here.

The final third of Jan will be rockin'.

Felt like living in lower Michigan today with mood flakes from sunup to sundown. Don't see that very often around here.

Picked up a few tenths here. That wind last night was wicked.