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10 hours ago, Powerball said:

 

I remember when a WWA became the simplified headline for Snow and Freezing Rain Advisories.

I blame it on the dumbing down of society

7 hours ago, Powerball said:

I thought that was just for WWAs?

@PowerballNope, it's for almost all advisories and all special weather statements. They will become "plain language headlines." Here is an overview of the changes:

https://www.weather.gov/hazardsimplification/revampprogress

8 hours ago, Chinook said:

It is certainly this is an interesting question. Another thing related to this: As of recent years, I heard advisories are going to be phased out of the NWS entirely 2024. But it's 2024 now. I wonder if somebody can comment on that

Toledo had pea-soup fog with rain or drizzle in a lot of hours today

 

The last update I received advised that this year will be dedicated to outreach and training and the earliest that it will be implemented (phased in) is early next year.

We had the same weather down here at FWA yesterday, which annihilated the snowpack and it still around this morning.  It may stay around most of the day, but lift this evening as the next system moves in, which could drop another 1/2-3/4" of rain.

The rivers around here are already running high and this could send a couple into flood.  There are also a couple of rivers downstate with ice jams.

8 hours ago, weatherbo said:

You guys remember Will (pardon me, Alyssa) from Calumet?

Laurium couple arrested for child sexually abusive material (uppermichiganssource.com)

WTH?! You just never know...

On 1/18/2024 at 7:20 AM, A-L-E-K said:

congrats la porte

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0950 AM     Snow             La Porte                41.61N 86.71W
01/19/2024  M18.0 inch       La Porte           IN   Broadcast Media

5 hours ago, Paulie21 said:

Yeah the LE looks almost textbook. Crazy long fetch with steady 600+ lake induced CAPE for hours. Could definitely see 3"+/hr rates in that at times.

The Superior connection adds fuel to the fire

20 minutes ago, Stevo6899 said:

Aided by lake effect I'd assume? Or was it mostly system snow?

It hasn't fallen yet, but some system snow, followed by a model projected semi-stationary single band should do the trick.

29 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

congrats la porte

A foot +

52 minutes ago, Stebo said:

Cromartie, since I know you are reading this, stop making accounts. You have made 7 accounts already that have been banned in the last week. Take a hint, you are banned, go find another place to annoy.

Oh, I don’t know, it may have been kind of fun having him around with this upcoming arctic dump.

Only call for FWA: Flakeage mixed with rain at onset, .75” of rain through the day. 2.1” of backwash snow with intermittent white out conditions. IWXwx will be asleep during the best part of the storm Friday night, waking up to a frozen tundra. 

Yet another miss for Northeast Indiana upcoming, especially if the King reigns. More rain and the bad thing about this one is that it will be followed by a barren arctic tundra for days on end.

21 minutes ago, nwohweather said:

Barometer at home officially at 28.90. Can’t say I’ve seen it this low much in my life

Same here

2 hours ago, Powerball said:

February 2-3, 2022 Winter Storm here in Dallas...

BTW, if the former Lafayette, IN members (Hoosier & ChicagoWX) were still actively posting, they could also attest to experiencing pingers for roughly the same length of time during GHD 2011. All of their old posts about the event are still easily searchable.

Point being, after experiencing such an event, I'm fairly numb to relatively intermittent pingers now. It can be so much worse.

I can attest to many hours of pingers during GHD 2011. I forget exactly how many inches of sleet we had, but it was enough to make roads nearly impassable. It is also the only time I’ve seen large drifts of sleet. Wish I had taken pics.

It's interesting that multiple locations set their January low pressure record today, mostly beating the bliz of '78 and those new records could get beat in three days.

2 minutes ago, geddyweather said:

Believe 981.9mb at KIND will be a new minimum MSLP record for January, breaking 1978's record of 984.4

Yep. At least IND got a consolation prize.

The normally reserved and conservative Todd H. at IWX is onboard, throwing weenies a bone (or is that a bun) in his overnight discussion.

"...focus turns to potential snowpocalypse Fri-Sat."

"...an anonymously moist return moisture plume as delineated in explicit deterministic qpfs Fri-Sat, highlighting the potential for a blockbuster snowstorm for much of the area."

When he's all in, I'm all in.

IWX is calling for 3-5" for MBY on Monday night with the front end dump, just to get washed away after sunrise. Talk about a stat padder. Several inches of snow that will not be enjoyed.

Oh, we might get a consolation prize with the backwash. It would be nice to lay even a coating to enjoy and perhaps help in the coming days.

1 hour ago, michsnowfreak said:

Picked up 0.4" of snow as misty light snow fell all evening and overnight. 

Woke up to 0.4” too. Had 0.2” yesterday, with mood flakes off and on all day. Still getting snow showers this morning. Not much, but it finally looks like winter out there.

On 1/3/2024 at 2:42 PM, IWXwx said:

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The tropics of IND just missed setting a futility record for the latest measurable snowfall. The record was set on January 4, 1941.  They received their first measurable snow yesterday (12/31) with a whopping 0.1"!!

Maybe Josh and other snow measurers can chime in, but I think it is almost impossible to record 0.1" of snow. I've been measuring for 20 years and have recorded it twice.  It is usually a trace as the ground doesn't get completely covered or the flakes are fluffy enough to record 0.2".  It's hard to get flake size that allows for a 0.1" measurement.

All of that being said to comment that they got robbed as bad as the Lions!

You're both right and you both know it. Pattern change is not necessarily immediately accompanied by a change in sensible weather. Operationals depict going from WAD to seasonal and dry. However, I am encouraged by the fact that at least there is a better opportunity for interesting weather down the road and in fact the Euro may begin to show something in a couple of more runs, but in the short-term, yeah, zzzz away.

Cutoff lows sometimes produce funky outcomes. Rain in Northern Indiana (sometimes heavy) while Southern Indiana, just north of the Ohio River, is seeing accumulating snow.

9 hours ago, Spartman said:

An awful stretch coming up over the next week

Really??!! Upper 40's-upper 50's in late December? If December is going to be the new November, I'll take those temps in a heartbeat. And it's not like it's going to be a complete washout. Just occasional showers. Beats the hell out of CAD.

1 hour ago, Lightning said:

I know what you mean.  I figure I eventually will have to pay one of the neighbor kids to do my driveway but I have several years to go before that happens ( ).  

Last year I had the biggest mostly sleet (mixed with a little ice) event I have personally seen (while just to my south was getting a major ice storm).  Boy that was a bugger to clean off the driveway.    

No matter how many times you yell at them, "Get off my lawn!!!" in the summer, they'll still shovel your driveway in the winter if you flash the cash.