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6 hours ago, NegativeEPO said:

Honestly, I would take last spring over this spring. Sure, last April was awful, but at least the cold was pretty much done by April 20. Also had a very nice May last year too. This year, it's been non-stop cold, dreary weather. And it looks to continue that way for the foreseeable future.

Sorry about your luck-

HUNTINGTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HUNTINGTON AND ROANOKE
642 AM EDT SUN MAY 12 2019

.THURSDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. 

.FRIDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. 

.SATURDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. 

IWX morning disco...

"MUCH MORE SUBSTANTIAL WARMUP POSSIBLE BY NEXT WEEKEND WITH SEVERAL GUIDANCE SOURCES PUSHING HIGHS WELL INTO THE MID 80S...EVEN TOUCHING UPPER 80S IN SOME SPOTS."

3 hours ago, Indystorm said:

Current Indpls temp.....72 degrees ....ten above point forecast high for today...partly sunny skies

Meanwhile, up here north of the front it only made it to 50°...seven degrees below the point forecast. 22° difference in 80 miles.  Blustery and rainy.

Congrats to your daughter on her graduation. She is now a Wildcat alumnus. A least you won't have to visit the dump that is Marion, IN any more, although it is a very nice campus.

It seems that the flooding rain path is slowly moving north with time. It slammed Southern IN and KY for a few weeks, we've had our turn, and today areas just north of here (and including portions of LOT's CWA) are getting hammered. Area farmers are singing the blues.

I found 33 mushrooms today. They are pretty small, but I had to pick them as they will be underwater in the next day or two as they were near a bank-full creek and the reservoir is in flood control mode so the water is backing up into the creek valley. Looks like we may get 2-3 more inches by Thursday so may see some significant flooding in the area.

Does NegativeEPO stand for Negative Every Post Online?

12 hours ago, Jackstraw said:

With the big late season snow just to the North I don't know if I'm jealous or pi$#%d.  Jealous cause I'm not in on the extreme event.  Pi$%#d cause this weather pattern is royally screwing my shroom season!  

I feel your pain

2 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

 We do not seem to be that far along here. My brother noted last weekend in Chicago that they was a lot more blooming there than here.  It is certainly picked up a lot the past week though.

While checking out the morel mushroom boards, I noticed a similar progression. It seems that it was almost west to east, with the 'srooms  popping in the western part of Indiana while the majority of the woods floors were still barren here in the eastern part of the state.

4 hours ago, Powerball said:

 

 

lol.

I think Stebo's right. The same guy that plants palm trees in Wisconsin.

Oh hell, why not?

Yeah, it seems that the April and November tornadoes are more powerful on average here in the Midwest, while we get a lot of EF0's - EF1's in May-July. I'm too lazy and in a hurry to verify this. I'm sure Hoosier will chime in with proven stats.

2 hours ago, The_Doctor said:

hmmm...

I'm glad to see that he's alive and kickin'

1 hour ago, Jackstraw said:

This crap has got to stop.  We can't string together more than 36-48 hours of decent dry weather.  It was impossible to get the yard raked last fall and now it's impossible to get the yard raked let alone mowed so far this spring.  I desperately need a good 4 day stretch of mild dry weather to get anything done.  A day and a half of decent weather followed by 2-3 days of rain, wind and cold then if lucky 2 days of dry weather then repeat.  I have like a 24 hour window once or twice a week to do anything outside and it's been like this since October (cold in winter excluded of course).  I don't think I've seen such miserable timing with these weather systems in my 7 years back in Indiana.

Edit:  And btw it seems like every weekend a weather system moves through for the last 6 months.  Can't even get a decent Sat. and Sun.  Started noticing this in Dec.  We had some kind of precip probably more than 70% of the time over the weekend for the last 6 months.  7 day forecast below is getting really old.....

 

Same thing here. I have also noticed that the crappiest weather has been on weekends more often than not. I keep waiting for the switch to get flipped so I can a backlog of outdoor work done.

Still holding at 59°, while Jackstraw, Indystorm and company 50 miles to my south are roasting at 80°

15 hours ago, Hoosier said:

Next total solar eclipse in the US is 5 years from today.  Would be nice to have weather like today.

There will be a couple solar eclipses for the sub prior to that... non-total of course.  June 2021 is a morning/sunrise eclipse that will occur in a good chunk of the region.  I intend to go to a place along Lake Michigan for that one... would look great with the sun rising.

I will be 66 and will hopefully be retired by then. I may have to drive 15 miles to my southeast to truly get the total eclipse but will probably just be watching from my back yard.

32 minutes ago, Baum said:

please. no.

I hope it trends south, right through ORD land. That may give the Cubs a chance to work on their pitching during the game cancellations.

5 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

Yeah, we had an epic several-week period from mid to late winter, but then it transitioned straight into a several-week period of blah.

My March precip total is 1.84", a little below avg.

My March snowfall total is 2.0".

My 2018-19 season snowfall total will finish at 49.9".

You can have the 0.7" I got last night.

13 minutes ago, *IndyMeso* said:

Just had some thundersnow here in Noblesville. Just plastering snow on everything right now. Awesome stuff.

My daughter in Muncie is also reporting thundersnow. I saw pictures of slick roads in your area as well as in Delaware County. It's going to measure here as we are getting some big fatties falling.

I haven't seen any posts from weatherbo for about 10 days. I hope he didn't get buried in a snow drift. I am interested what the snowpack's like up there.

2 hours ago, NegativeEPO said:

well it looks like you can kiss a warm April goodbye, might be even worse than last year, I think. In fact, I think this entire year might be the one of the coldest on record by a long shot for the eastern half of the country. Wouldn't surprise me if we see some snow in June. It's one of the consequences of climate change unfortunately. Years like 2012 may never be seen in the midwest/east ever again.

lol on many levels

1 hour ago, Hoosier said:

Would have to agree.  You can pick out some individual months that were really nice (like May 2018) but overall, it has been more junky than good.

Here's the recap for March, April and May for our subforum for 2012 and beyond. Other than the hell that was March 2013 and 2014, what really sticks out is going from winter in April to summer in May last year (Includes Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri).

March:

        Temp     Norm      Dep             Prcp     Norm      Dep   %Norm
     2012     50.6     36.8     13.8             2.65     2.52     0.14     105
     2013     30.5     36.8     -6.3             2.45     2.52    -0.07      97
     2014     29.5     36.8     -7.2             1.51     2.52    -1.01      60
     2015     36.0     36.8     -0.8             2.13     2.52    -0.39      85
     2016     43.0     36.8      6.2             3.25     2.52     0.73     129
     2017     37.9     36.8      1.2             2.98     2.52     0.46     118
     2018     35.4     36.8     -1.4             2.64     2.52     0.12     105

April:

        Temp     Norm      Dep             Prcp     Norm      Dep   %Norm
     2012     50.8     49.0      1.9             2.81     3.33    -0.52      85
     2013     44.8     49.0     -4.1             5.29     3.33     1.96     159
     2014     47.4     49.0     -1.5             4.83     3.33     1.50     145
     2015     50.4     49.0      1.4             3.51     3.33     0.18     105
     2016     49.0     49.0      0.0             3.07     3.33    -0.26      92
     2017     52.4     49.0      3.4             5.04     3.33     1.71     151
     2018     40.8     49.0     -8.2             2.56     3.33    -0.77      77

May:

          Temp     Norm      Dep             Prcp     Norm      Dep   %Norm
     2012     64.2     59.4      4.8             3.72     4.21    -0.48      89
     2013     59.7     59.4      0.3             5.26     4.21     1.05     125
     2014     59.9     59.4      0.5             3.52     4.21    -0.68      84
     2015     60.9     59.4      1.5             4.88     4.21     0.68     116
     2016     59.3     59.4     -0.1             3.90     4.21    -0.31      93
     2017     58.4     59.4     -1.0             4.88     4.21     0.68     116
     2018     66.5     59.4      7.1             4.01     4.21    -0.19      95

I had to lol about the quick-hitting clipper that will bisect the subforum with a stripe of 1-3" tonight/tomorrow and there's only two posts about it here. Had this been in January it would be a 5 page thread. I'll take my 2" stat padder that will be gone in a couple of hours and then welcome spring.

8 minutes ago, buckeye said:

Around noon yesterday the temperatures started to sore towards the mid 70's... the sun was breaking out and a line of storms with tornadic cells was building through eastern IN and ready to cross into OH.  There was almost no doubt in my mind that we were going to see one heck of a severe outbreak.   Amazingly it found a way to fail even though it came through right at the most prime time  of the day.  Other than about a 15 minute incredibly heavy down pour and a few claps of thunder....that was about it.   

Clearly weather failures in CMH are not limited to winterstorms.  

I think Michigan posters suffers the same fate when it comes to severe weather, although they can use the lakes as an excuse. There's no excuse for Ohio. You guys just don't try hard enough!!  You know that I'm just being facetious, and I suffered the same fate as you yesterday. Severe storms to both my north and northwest as well as to my south and we ended up in no mans land here with 0.40" of rain and one clap of thunder.

No water shortage in the Midwest.

I usually don't bother rooting for spring until the vernal equinox, but we hit 70° here today, so now bring it!!

42 minutes ago, bowtie` said:

A little bit of lightning. A little bit of thunder. A little bit of sideways rain. A nice way to start off the season. So far 1.30" in my tippy bucket.

Same up here. I don't realize how much I enjoy listening to the rumbles until I haven't heard any for awhile. Had one loud one that seemed to roar for a long time.