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7th warmest Dec. at KIND.

Some flakeage in the air to ring out December and 2023. Only elevaded surfaces so far as the Sun sets...

All of you winter weenies are so triggered by anyone that says the word warm. Well, guess what. Dec. is going to come in warm. Warm, warm and warm. Sweating in your sweaters all you winter weenies? Going to ban someone else that says the word warm a lot?

Solidary for hardypalmguy and anyone else that says the word warm.

The palm here is doing just fine. Getting so big it is larger than my biggest black background. Going to have to get creative to keep it isolated from now on.       Palms in the midwest for the win. Warm, Warm and lets hope for more warm.

27 minutes ago, weatherbo said:

Mild 26 this morning with some flurries.  Hi-res models paint as much as 4-6" in a narrow area of the high terrain from Herman right through my back yard late tonight/tomorrow. In an average winter by this point that would almost be a yawn but I'm excited.

I'll yawn for you. lol

15 hours ago, DocATL said:

When I moved up here from Atlanta, my neighbor gifted me a snowblower. I now realize he was just trying to offload his.


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Better to have it and not need it rather than need it and not have it. Candy heart Grandfather wisdom.

12-26

The Moon was making some nice colors in the alto-cumulus this evening...

And yes this is a different image. This one is in focus.

On 10/23/2023 at 12:54 PM, vortex95 said:

  
27.23 -91.19 92

 

I take it this is an oil drilling platform in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Whether you use met or astronomical winter timeframe, grading winter in the fourth week of December seems extremely premature to me.

1 hour ago, DocATL said:

Wow that’s epic! It’s funny. I’m in my first winter in the Midwest after 13 years in the south and it’s been a piece of cake!


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Seeing how we are only almost three days into winter, I would hold off on grading the whole winter at this point. Still have January and February to go yet.

The green locks your system?

Some impressive fog here this morning. KIND was reporting 0.06 mile visibility between 8 and 8:30. And from the traffic cams the fog looked 100% worse here in my county.

^ Elevation is everything. Illinois is rather short on 11,000 foot peaks.

Happy Winter you weenies. The solstice was at 10;21p.m. Enjoy your winter now.

50 minutes ago, buckeye said:

I can’t put my finger on it but there’s something very believable about this…

The Buckeye effect?

So far just a grassy areas/ elevated surfaces event here...

0.69" of the liquid variety overnight and this morning as the majority rotates east of me. Now to see what the backside drifts down to us.

3 hours ago, weatherbo said:

Record high of 53 today in Negaunee, breaking the old record of 50 set back in 1998.  Snow mostly gone here at my place. Weird.

Chickens are rejoicing?

My Grandfather's old analog barometer is sitting sideways. Do not see that often. KIND was up to 1040.70mb at 8 p.m..  At 9 p.m. it had relaxed to 1040.60. Not often you see the pressure above 30.70 inches of mercury.

-40 is "Danger Will Robinson" weather. Hard pass.

< debates on whether to dogpile this term.

31 minutes ago, Powerball said:

It's great that ATHF is back in the air. 

I know I will regret this, but what is ATHF?

9 hours ago, weatherbo said:

Blustery with snow showers today... right around 2 inches otg, however it won't last.  Forecast for Thursday is 46 and 41 Friday with rain. 

Doesn't happen all that often, especially in the UP snowbelts but it looks like a brown Christmas this year.  Here's some stats for Marquette. 

3 hours ago, roardog said:

The scariest part of that chart is that it looks like Marquette didn’t exist in 2014 at Christmas. 

That or loggers cut down all the pines that year before the flurries fell.

Finally , some good news. The sunsets are getting later now. Last night was at 5:19p.m.. Tonight it was  5;20p,.m.. We are on the long road back to sunlight now.

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

Look at that stupid thing lol

Ain't it beautiful!?

11-5 and it as one of those evenings, so I am going to over-share

When I got out to the overpass there was a small patch of alto-cumulus floating under the cirrus deck. Taken with the 24-70mm at 31mm...

Faint sundogs and halo. Taken with the 24-70mm at 33mm...

Real close to sunset and a study of various white and yellow layers of clouds. Taken with the 24-70mm at 61mm...

Looking southeast at the approaching color. Taken with the 24-70mm at 28mm...

Looking south at the max color. Taken with the 24-70mm at 61mm...

Last dregs of color. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Cheers!