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0.71” with the round Friday morning and 0.78” with the storms last night and this morning.  Overall a good early spring soak

Got a hair under 3” yesterday.  It is melting very quickly today under full sun 

Slight overperformer today.  At least a couple inches.  Winding down now so will go out and measure 

Madison is at 0.7” of snow this month which is tied for 4th lowest on record.  Saturday is our only remaining chance to bump us out of the top 10 

snow started around 7 this morning.  Will end up with less than an inch, but the wind was definitely a slap in the face compared to this past week

And the least surprising post of the year goes to 

Made it to 62 straight hours below 0.  20 is going to feel like a heat wave later this week

Definitely feels like we saw that map a lot last year too

Didn’t pop above 0 at MSN today. Going on 48 hours with negative temps. Should make a run at at least 60 hours 

would have to reach 64 hours to hit a top 10 all time streak here.  Likely will fall just short of that

On 1/23/2026 at 9:44 AM, Malacka11 said:

Tell me I'm not tweaking... I noticed on this mornings dawg walk that climbing planes from O'Hare sounded comparatively hifi. Even from definitely a few thousand feet up you could hear tarmac-style turbine whine, yk that more shrill sound, echoing loudly off of adjacent apartment buildings quite literally the way it sounds in a terminal.

I actually had a hard time finding them because the higher frequency sounds making it farther down are ofc coming when the plane is directly above you, which my monkey brain was not computing properly with how loud the sound was. Even with a clear sky, I just wasn't looking for hoes that far up and was therefore surprised when I realized.

Ig I'm just shocked that if it's as simple as cold air = denser = transmits delicate high frequency sound waves better, that it makes such a massive difference between say 20° and -9° compared to 20° and 80°. 

On cold calm nights 747 freighters departing ohare will climb overhead at 20,000+ feet and sound like rockets. On a normal summer night you can barely hear them 

-19 here at the house. Just might be hitting the bottom now. Since this is an advection cold the normal low spots on my drive in didn’t bottom out in the -20s 

2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

Dab-

Sick of this cad stuff

It does get you posting 2x as often so might be a worthy sacrifice for board morale 

If we’re gonna do it we might as well do it big. Hoping we can challenge some 2019/2014 levels here 

 Nice weenie band SW of Madison 

Lows of -3, -8 and -11 the past three days respectively. Looks like the cold should peak Friday

Down to -11 at the house this morning. This will be quite the cold stretch 

Record high of 55 at 1159 last night and record high of 56 at 1258 this morning.  The rare double daily records within an hour

Temps and dews rose to 40 overnight and the melt is kicking into overdrive.  A couple patches of grass showing in my yard

2.5" here that got rained on so it was a sloppy mess.  Back to the freezer for a few days

Over performing right now. Massive flakes and already 2+”. Rain may be mixing in occasionally but it’s a vast majority snow 

16 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

Fresh snow working it's magic.  Already at -5 here.

Same.  16 and sunny felt warm today so I know the winter brainwashing was very successful this year

2.5”.  Already tanked to -5 at the house

shift back south on 12z and drying out, especially east.  HRRR is the only one that stays north and juiced.

-7 at the house. Got a -14 on the car thermometer at the local low spot. Winter is here, glad it matches the time of year I’m most excited for it

getting some flurries here already.  that type of event where the slightest pertubation to the atmosphere produces snow