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A graphic by a local station shows just how streaky temps were last month. Seventeen out of 31 days were above normal, but the bitter cold before Christmas drove us to below normal for the month.

As of Midnight last night -9.36" https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=ind&product=CLI&issuedby=ind

Lol

Anxiously awaiting my Boxing Day turd duster

Here ya go...

I just noticed that FWA has a 7" deficit in precip for the year. That Friday/Saturday system is going to need to dump a lot of rain to cut into that by year's end.

Travel restrictions in place here. Motorists stranded and dozens and dozens of wrecks. After several measurements this morning, 2.5" is my best estimate. As Jackstraw said earlier, 50 MPH wind gusts and -30° wind chills for hours that don't look to let up until Saturday night. The winds have actually been getting stronger as the day goes on and whiteout conditions are occurring. Winter Storm Warning conditions here no doubt. As others have said, brutal is the only way to describe it.

A little something I made, thought I'd share here

Good luck. I always am concerned about you guys and gals working in these conditions. Today is probably right up there with the worst ones.

Thanks for the in-depth meteorological reasoning.

Nothing to be active about from here. I've been expecting ~3" and that's what's happening. The brutal wind and wind chills are still the highlight. I know you're referring to the ORD crew who thought they were reeling one in, only to have it come off the hook at boat-side.

As of right now, I am the only person in our county that can send a WEA (at least for the time being.) I also wrote the SOP for sending them. None of that ticky-tack bs is getting sent on my watch. However, you did bring up a good point on the zombie apocalypse. I may have to include that.

Man, the entertainment value of the storm thread is priceless. Watching weenies' emotions ebb and flow with each model run, especially the Chicago posters. This is still going to be a major-impact storm, whether you get three or nine. I've been kicked back over here in FWAland absolutely satisfied with my incoming 3" and 50 mph gusts. I'm looking forward to sitting in front of the picture window and enjoying the blizzard. Will be a white Christmas for almost all in the subforum, and after the past several Decembers, what's to be disappointed about?

Snow globe finally ended here this morning after continuing almost unabated since Friday afternoon. When combined the five days in mid-November, I don't remember the last time we had snow globe conditions occurring totaling a week before Christmas.

Yep, every model is wrong.

Probably digging out the heat lamps. Yeah, I know it's a temp map from from an op run at 312 that I could 30 get dayed for posting, but figured a little emphasis wouldn't hurt.

Lol at both the Can't Forecast Shit and the Can't Forecast Shitv2

Never gets old

After the past few years, it's hard for me to share that positivity. However, forgetting meteorology and just playing the odds, we're overdue, changing climo be damned.

Normally I'd be lamenting being bullseye for an inch and a half of rain rather than what could have been at this time of year, but it's so dry around here, I'll take it.

Another hit for the MN crew

There should some code written into the model's algorithm that won't allow a solution with isobars packed that tightly past 96 lol

Watch it. That might get the old "fake snow" debate started again. RIP Congrats on getting a rare Lake enhanced/LES that packed a punch.

Almost as much as my composite total for the past three years (87.1").