frostfern

You mean Beavis? Almost as sick that one member that enjoying heat waves and complains about thunderstorms knocking down afternoon highs. That’s just demented.

By that time I will be hoping for winter to be over.

For 2026 IMBY, holy sh*t YES. Lake Enhanced Clippers are back in force after being oddly missing in action the last few years. Its not that I wouldn’t prefer some sharing of wealth on the synoptic scale.

There were some serious convective squalls this morning. Big dry spaces between bands, but very heavy when you’re under one.

A sudden switch to Pacific flood pattern would put most of this sub on suicide watch.

The problem is more not having much to look forward to in this pattern. Especially anyone not in a lake belt. I’d rather be teased by a phantom storm in the long range than see absolutely nothing.

Somewhere near Rockford unofficially got down to -25. Big Rapids got down to -27. Cadillac -31. It seems the small amounts of fog and moisture that hung out in lower areas held temps a little higher. Urban heat island might have affected things too. More exhaust moisture maybe.

I feel like it could have gotten colder without pesky moisture hanging around and clouds moving overhead in the morning. There’s a surprising amount of terrain effects too as it’s not totally flat here. Places just a couple hundred feet higher had much lower dewpoints and fell way down into the mid -20s.

GRR is sitting at -16. Daily record is -20. All time is -24. There’s some -20s showing up in more rural areas nearby though. It seems like higher dewpoints are holding temperatures higher some places. It’s hard to get extreme lows here in West Michigan as normally westerly flow off the lake doesn’t diminish until the coldest core of 850 temps has passed. This is kind of a rare setup where the 850 cold pool is stalling directly overhead with light winds.

Big Rapids is already down to -20 at midnight. MBY is -15 with 8 more hours of darkness. Only high clouds could screw it up.

So you would be happy with 3 one inch dusters in December followed by two months of arctic CAD and maybe a duster or two to offset sublimation? Just keep a steady 3 inches with zero melting. Stay below 15F so no melting on roads or dirty looking snow.

What’s crazy is they did go through the effort to slightly change the shape and location of the overly large blob each time.

It’s the type of weather to be on the lookout for optical phenomenon you normally only see out the airplane window.

You only need about 3” to cover most grass blades and be in “looks like winter” territory.

Grand Rapids be like…. Me: The snow sure is pretty! Normie: