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21 minutes ago, MidwestChaser said:

You're only as old as u fee...yep I'm old lol

On this night back in 1987 things were about to get extremely exciting.  Still remember watching Monday night football as the snow started to fall.  It was the beginning of the infamous Dec 14-15 blizzard that brought 60-90mph winds over parts of IL and WI along with frequent thundersnow.  If I had to relive one of the top 5 blizzards since I've been alive I'd still probably choose this one.  Didn't put out as much snow GHDI but the ferocity was a tad higher for this immediate area.  I was only 10 but still can remember it like it was yesterday.

6 hours ago, sbnwx85 said:

My snow measure is up to about 2.5 inches of leaves.

I don't know, looks like slant-sticking to me. 

1 hour ago, TheNiño said:

Geminides meteor shower peaks the next couple nights. Haven’t seen shit yet but what else we have to talk about lol 

Just palms and how awesome they are.

Looks like all the cold's over on the other side of the planet right now.

December is usually just a 2nd November anyway the past decade or so.  Good news is we get a 2nd March to help make up for it if you like cold weather.

0.54" overnight to bring us up to 1.55" for December, which is over twice what we received in all of November.  

27 minutes ago, Chambana said:

We literally went from a triple La Niña to a strong borderline super Nino. Brutal. 

Maybe next winter we'll get nonina and have non-stop action from Thanksgiving to Easter.

May get a little thunder around here later this evening.  Might be the highlight of the month the way it's going lol.  Models show 0.5-0.7" of rain for the QCA this evening.

Sure miss big December storms like this one 14 years ago today in 2009.  8-12" for the QC, about a foot for much of central and eastern Iowa.  At least we have events like this to look back on and reminisce lol.

I wish there was a way to look at models that have been decommissioned.  I seriously think the AVN back in the early 2000s was way better than the latest few GFS versions.

Even though the main storm crapped the bed we at least should get some needed rain tomorrow night.  Looks like another half inch is possible.

Models definitely trending more and more to glorified frontal passage.

Came from eastern forums like so many others here.  Was on another one before that but can't remember what it was lol.

Youtube needs to change it's name to Hypetube.  Seems like every video (weather forecast related especially) is overly hyped, especially by the video title or vid graphic.  I get that each youtuber is trying to make their vids pop for views, but it's really dumbing down the site.  

Picked up about a half inch of snow here.  Ripped pretty good for about a half hour, then had rain mix in for about an hour and melted most of the snow, but now has snowed hard enough to re-dust up the ground again.  

4 minutes ago, RogueWaves said:

Surprise in the making?? At least you get the prime darks hours. Like everything so far, midday event on tap over here. 

Radar shows mixing moving in from the west out near the QC, so may see it mix with rain here in a little while.  Quickly dusted up the ground already though.

Snowing pretty hard out there now.  Some of the models were showing all rain here but they were wrong.

Insert slippery fish gif:

This one's gonna flop around all week looks like.  Entertaining times ahead watching the models roll in.

34 minutes ago, DocATL said:

18z GFS walls off Chicago from anything wintery. A very April December.


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January gonna be rockin'

2 hours ago, Frog Town said:

Wasn't there a tropical system connection to that storm??  

Was a very potent clipper that dropped 6-10" of snow from MSP down through northern IL into IN and KY.

Just read through some of the Dec 3 2010 storm thread.  So many peeps from then have left or been banned, kinda sad.

0.35" of rain and 0.8" of snow last night/this morning.  Snow is melting quickly so may have had more than 0.8".

Decent rain event with this wave, with 0.34" of rain so far this evening.  It's in the process of changing to snow currently.  May pick up an inch or so by morning.

Euro shows a foot of snow for Hawkeye and much of the Iowa crew late next weekend.  Looks like the next system of note to watch.  GFS and others show something in that time frame as well.  Perhaps our 2nd storm thread of the new season incoming?