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2 hours ago, (((Will))) said:

There's a reason 35% of the people who live there die from suicide - they get bored of driving around.

Then Indiana's suicide rate should be much higher

On 12/4/2018 at 12:52 PM, Snowless in Carrollton said:

Yeah what's the point of it being cold all the time if it's never going to snow ? Might as well be 70 and sunny.

45 minutes ago, zinski1990 said:

Again north of indiana while another big storm missed south this weekend. Sucks 

41 minutes ago, KokomoWX said:

We cannot catch a storm.  I am so tired of the misses.

11 minutes ago, Jackstraw said:

Get's a taste of honey, wants the whole hive 

Lol. I thought that I was the only hoosier lamenting our recent dearth of snow. Ready to change our state nickname to hosed.  Lol II at throwing in the towel at Hoosier's 384 Hr GFS Hail Mary.

IWX says that the blob northwest of the city is "plant induced snow". I am assuming that they mean factory releases.

15 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

See this is where it's all perspective. You say that only 25% of the Winter days are like Winter but 90% of the summer days are like summer. I guarantee I could find probably 8 out of 10 people who would say the exact opposite. You're giving a strict criteria for Winter. Per your winter scale, if the high is 20° but there is only 1 inch of snow on the ground, that's not Winter. If there is 6" of snow on the ground but the high is 34°, that's not Winter.  You did not give a scale for what is a summer day, but if 90% of the days from mid June to mid September are summer, considering the Great Lakes averages 15 days or less of 90° per year, I have to assume according to you, a day with a high of 78ﾟis summer. Again it's all in perspective but quite an unfair and unrealistic playing field you are setting forth.  And I say it again, this is coming from someone who has very similar weather likes as you.

We agree

8 hours ago, IWXwx said:

That's the crux of the problem. Your definition of winter differs from most of the general public's, including me. Our climo features weeks of highs in the thirties and lows in the twenties and teens which most would consider winter weather whether or not that includes snow. People who aren't weenies consider snow and cold a nuisance to their day-to-day lives.

Even with little snow, I consider this winter. Florida says, "Hi"

11 hours ago, beavis1729 said:

I guess the flip side is the following: people can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that we have a wintry climate in Chicago and hear the media and general public whine and complain about it...and then at the same time, the data shows that only about 1 in 4 DJF days are truly wintry in Chicago. Both of these things can’t be true. 

That's the crux of the problem. Your definition of winter differs from most of the general public's, including me. Our climo features weeks of highs in the thirties and lows in the twenties and teens which most would consider winter weather whether or not that includes snow. People who aren't weenies consider snow and cold a nuisance to their day-to-day lives.

1 hour ago, janetjanet998 said:

Holy Moly..I forgot how dead it has been this year

 

I wonder how often central IL has had ZERO Tornado watches for the entire calendar year..looks like for  Northern IL the streak will continue

Yeah, our string got ruined by one unwarranted Watch in Northern IN or we would be right there with MI, Northern IL, and Northern OH.

Since Hoosier seems to be laying down on the job, I guess I'll post the end-of-month never fail CFSv2. Get out your suntan lotion and galoshes.

53 minutes ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Total accumulated snowfall this season. Central Minnesota, Central/Western Iowa and most of Indiana seem to be the early season losers. 

 

Hopefully we can squeeze out an inch tonight and thread the needle with the weekend system up here. 

Quite the IN/OH sucker hole.

That 12/3-12/4 storm looks eerily like what just happened with track and moisture, although not winding up  as early.

30 minutes ago, beavis1729 said:

Strangely, I haven't seen a final total from ORD...but I believe it was in the range of 7-8".

8.4" is the final total at ORD.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
233 PM CST MON NOV 26 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 PM     SNOW             OHARE AIRPORT           41.98N 87.90W
11/26/2018  M8.4 INCH        COOK               IL   OFFICIAL NWS OBS 

            STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL. 

1200 PM     SNOW             NWS CHICAGO-ROMEOVILLE  41.60N 88.08W
11/26/2018  M2.9 INCH        WILL               IL   OFFICIAL NWS OBS 

            STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL AT NWS CHICAGO IN 
            ROMEOVILLE, IL. 

It's really fun to be tracking a major storm system in November and I'm happy for the weenies to my north and west that are about to get blasted, but it sure comes at a cost for those of us in Indiana and Ohio who will only get to experience mood flakes, blustery winds, and temps that be below normal even for mid January standards this week. Obviously really early and I'm hopeful that our turn will come, but in the meantime cold and dry sucks.

10 minutes ago, ChiTownSnow said:

What the heck kind of update is that??   Give us a little more. I guess it's s good thing though

The correct response is, "Thank you Izzi at LOT for the between AFDs update."

As someone said earlier, I wouldn't want to be on the forecast desk with the major track waffling amongst the globals. IWX is in the same boat even though the heavy snow band will be northwest of most of the CWA, although wind and temps will be an issue here.  In fact, when asked about it earlier, here is the reply :

59 minutes ago, Stebo said:

Lock it in baby!

Leave it to our fearless moderator to break out the Navy.  If the GFS holds course, even I'll be smiling.

36 minutes ago, Chicago WX said:

Gotta remember that these days, Hoosier is as warm biased (self admitted) as the CFS is wrong. 

Anyways, here's a list of cities that are currently off to a top 10 coldest November on record. Rankings of mean average temperatures from Nov 1 thru Nov 21.

 

You don't post much anymore, but you sure bring the good stuff when you do! Happy Thanksgiving to you.

1 hour ago, Chambana said:

 

It has been an absurdly cold November. We still have parking lot piles from the last 2 snow events that have failed to melt simply because the temperature has barely been above 32. Beautiful turkey day weather on tap, 52 and sunny. 

 

And yes go bears! Feels good to be first in our division after so many years of Aaron Rodgers and the packers dominating! 

You are on the warm side of the temperature gradient. We are looking at 34° and breezy here today.

What an unusual month. I just checked my CoCoRaHS record and I have seen flakes flying on 11 days this month with more chances next week. Granted, it has only been trace amounts, but it is something I'm used to seeing in February, not November. I would venture to guess that it is more likely to see one relatively large snow event  than this practically constant snow flurries/showers.

Happy Thanksgiving every one (Go Bears).

5 minutes ago, Stebo said:

It happens more often than we think, just not at this low of latitude, usually that stuff happens up in eastern Quebec and the Labrador. It is just a wacky pattern all around for this time of year.

Right, I meant in this part of the world. Interesting little fujiwharalike thing.

32 minutes ago, Stebo said:

Yeah goes around the top side of the upper low. What an unusual pattern, odds of verification <1%.

I don't remember a low doing that, and I'm older than dirt.

Chris used to work at WPTA in Ft. Wayne before moving to Columbus. We are losing a good one.

2 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

The Euro has been advertising a fairly potent system around the 26th for a few runs now.  A long ways out but something to watch.  There is a lead system on the 24th that could play havoc with how the main system evolves.  May cause the models fits since the two waves are close enough that their interaction could muddle things.  The wave around the 26th looks like it could be quite potent if everything times out just right.

41 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

12z Euro has a nice storm on the 26th-28th.

Maybe the models are beginning to sniff out a big dog around the end of the month when the pattern flips to full-fledged winter as guidance is depicts the ice box opening up.

29 minutes ago, hlcater said:

Average of measurements at my location comes out to 2.9" of wet, dense snow. I just measured it now, so I might have lost a couple tenths due to compaction.

Anytime you can get 3" this early, you're doing well.

1 hour ago, buckeye said:

Let me sum up this way when it comes to winter:     Bury me...torch me...or leave me the hell alone

Well said.

2 hours ago, Stebo said:

3 entries? Need to bump this back up some.

I really suck at this but I'll try to get my entries in this weekend