frostfern

Nice thunderstorm for January. Last snowbanks have melted.

I need to bank on warmer spring months to offset boring thunderless summers lately.

“A little bit of snow” is really common IMBY. Lots of minor lake effect dusters. People who don’t know how to drive on snow really shouldn’t live here. Very typical winter pattern right now.

Clippers are still better than rainers.

Sad. So long as snow is gone the warmer the better as far as I’m concerned. Really, anything is better than upper 30s / low 40s turd weather.

A true big dog should have at least a small 16”+ jackpot, and 12”+ in a good chunk of backyards. Many times the jackpot will be dismissed if it isn’t over Chicago or Detroit though.

I think I will still have snow *banks* even if grass is mostly visible. Also got a pile around 20’ tall at the local mall. Got to plow that sucker for the people doing donuts every Saturday night.

Yea. I just don’t remember those storms as I was living in Seattle part of the time and missed them. GHDI was better here in GRR (though still a little short of the forecast with 15” verified as opposed 18” forecast) while GHDII was more concentrated along I-94 with lighter totals north (8-12”).

He’s still wrong though. GHDI was on the heels of prolonged cold. Maybe that one wasn’t so good for SE Michigan, but the problem wasn’t too much cold.

Yep. The only exception I can think of is one of those late season stalled fronts where it’s shorts weather to the south and waves of snow a couple hundred miles north. It isn’t the right time of year for that. It’s late Feb through early April for that kind of setup. Mid-winter big dogs need that arctic air nearby, usually to the NW.

They do, but that warmth has to come from the south due to a southern stream low phasing and strengthening, not from a Pacific garbage airmass coming in from the west.

The trough has to retrograde a little to open up the gulf, which didn’t happen with this outbreak. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible for a big dog to occur during a below average period.

Unless you’re up in northern Minnesota, snow missing south has more to due weak disturbances with lack of phasing than temps being too cold. Big dogs don’t have trouble cutting up into arctic airmasses, provided they have the necessary depth. Pacific intrusions never help because they tend to split the jet.

Nice mood flake day with a layered 10” on the ground to appreciate.

I picked up about 3” of fluff with the arctic front last night. Lake effect is of the dusty slow-accumulating type now, but it’s picked up enough with wind going more WNW instead of NNW that another inch is possible overnight.