RogueWaves

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Sucks to be a Cornhusker

^ 1st WWA of the season for ya then

Guess I forgot you guys had been here before, and just a short decade ago. The two DEC blizzards really avoided ORD. I at least got a glancing blow with the Boxing Day storm at RMY

2/24/16 (couldn't find my tracks map)

BUT....this year's been pretty high suckage. We all know that constant snow cover at our LAT(s) is a very low percentage occurrence of all seasons. That's why I call winter in SMI any time we at least have snow piles around in between the snow fall and snow depth days. So far, that has been limited to a handful of days at the end of December. Have to go back decades I think to find something this lame. Even 11-12 had yielded much more snow at this point.

Was treated very well last winter with 5 or 6 so prolly due a break this winter tbh. But over all they have been less frequent during the last 3-4 winters replaced by numerous hybrids it would seem.

Strange how IND got in on that Nov '66 storm but the rest of the winter was historic just north of their CWA. Any way you cut it, some of those smaller amounts would be a winter season nightmare. Edit: 11-11-19 I had 7.0" and that was indeed the biggest of the season, so I guess I have lived it, lol. But at least it was warning level amt, not just a few inches.

Stoked at my 34F rainy commute this eve. Rain with WC's in the 20's. Doesn't get any better than this!

Let the hype train roll (for Chicago at least)

Can't argue. Tree buds are noticeable already here in today's sun.

LOL. KLAN smashed it last winter. Nearly 2 feet more than here. Poor showing for a "snow desert"

Applause to you! That's a lot of work to do every season up north no less where the duration is so short. I thought it an accomplishment just to put a few flats of annuals in my garden, lol

FYP Haha! I wish Haha! Wrong again! Soooo glad I only invested about 2 mins on this one. Next SEMI turd already in the pipeline

we shall see..

I got to stay inside and avoid the WC's all day Fri, and finally forced to venture out on Saturday when to my surprise, conditions were still actually kinda dicey in the W burbs. The "it's too bad" comment was more about getting WWA level snow, which took crazy winds carrying it into/onto the roadways to make for such bad conditions. During my 2 decades under the GRR scheme, I was always arguing for a more "conditions based" headline decision. I had so many WWA's that qualified as Warnings it was a joke. @Harry said would never happen from that office (unless it is some long-duration LES event like this November featured). That office seems to think LES is some super scary version of snow that makes roadways more slippery/difficult/dangerous when the opposite is generally true, lol.

What I would give to see legit 4-6!

Agree on the topic of using the cold 60's & 70's (and first half of 80's) as the benchmark, even though that's exactly what climate science cites for their arguments. The past (3) JAN's were cold, just fraught with BN snowfall. I hate to say it, but gimme some damned Clippers already. They were the best feature of last winter.

None of which has gone our way this winter or last. No matter how rosy model portrayals are, most of my qpf has fallen as liquid. I'm still shaking my head that I had to record a Storm Warning for what ended up being just 2.5" of snow.

And that's just for disco, lol. Getting anything to break right for this region has been like scoring on 4th and 60.

Detroit proper - not a chance. Points N maybe. If I had to put $$ I'd go with NMI (perhaps CMI) being cold enough. More cold rain in my forecast no doubt. Helps with low hydro so hard to complain too much.

But we had that nonsense mojo in 13-14

Ikr, so what happened on the updated map?? Looking at SEMI the amts were lowered across the board, lol

Funny how Detroit's biggest snowstorm happened smack-dab in the middle of the 1880's. One of the decades with the most warm temperatures. But also home to the previous harshest winter of record 1880-81 so that was quite the decade of extremes. Clearly, the 1900's and 1970's with the coldest against average temperatures produced some of the other notably historic snowstorms around here. This place does best with cold as a background state.

Two Michigan cities among snowiest in U.S. over last 30 years, Old Farmer’s Almanac says (msn.com)