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January 2012 General Discussion/Obs Part 2


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Took a pic of sunrise this morning. Maxed out at 56 today, missed record by 4F and today was enough to soar Detroit from a monthly mean of 30.2F yesterday (which would miss the top 20 warmest January list by 0.1F) to a final monthly mean of 30.7F, good for 17th warmest January on record (following the 12th warmest December on record). Precipitation was 3.00", above normal but not in the top 20 wettest Januarys, and snowfall finished at 9.3" which was just a few inches below normal. My backyard saw 10.9" of snowfall in Jan. Only 10 of the 31 days saw a snow depth of 1"+.

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50 mother****ing degrees here and goddamn birds are chirping. This was my world 8 hours ago:

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This winter is an abomination.

Nice pic.

F**k this Winter isnt happening. Its already February and the sun angle is getting higher each day. I cant believe it was f**king 50 degrees today, just amazing. Only nine days had highs below freezing, the rest above freezing, just amazing. At this point 2006-07 and 2001-02 were better and even 2009-10.

I f**king lost the bet, how sad. Getting 31.5" is going to be difficult. In a way I'm still winning that bet I just hope she doesnt make me do it for a "long" time haha.

Bring on spring, f**k this.

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In terms of snowfall, we were not better off in 2006-07 to this point.

And same goes for 2001-02 up until yesterday. Then we got that quick hitting snow storm 10 years ago today.

2001-02 will exceed this year by a good 6-7" after tomorrow haha and 2006-07 temperature wise....was in the deep freezer at this time so it's anomalies are ending up cooler than this year. Either way if we dont get a snowstorm by Valentine's day then I will say 2006-07 is better than this year haha. Feb 07 was much below normal temp wise.

Spring is almost here.

Its almost midnight and its still f**king 50F when we really should be at 14F, pathetic.

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2001-02 will exceed this year by a good 6-7" after tomorrow haha and 2006-07 temperature wise....was in the deep freezer at this time so it's anomalies are ending up cooler than this year. Either way if we dont get a snowstorm by Valentine's day then I will say 2006-07 is better than this year haha. Feb 07 was much below normal temp wise.

Spring is almost here.

Its almost midnight and its still f**king 50F when we really should be at 14F, pathetic.

Spring is not almost here. People always overexaggerate in weather/winters like this, but like it or not, in many ways its basically just the middle of winter. Yes, its 2/3 of the way through meteorological winter, but feb 4th is the halfway mark of astronomical winter, and snow-wise we are JUST past the halfway mark, at least here, for climo snowfall. 2006-07 was way warmer than 2011-12 up to mid-January, then Feb went into the deepfreeze. This far north for gods sake you can be in the deepfreeze in late March into April, theres no telling what is to come. YES its possible things dont improve but if you want to go with odds, they probably will at some point. And i know Toronto has suffered more than most here in recent winters, so it seems like all hope is lost. But its not.

fwiw the record highs for many today were set in 1989, a massive torch. Feb 1989 ended up being well below normal in temperature. So its not like these sickening temps are some sort of omen that this soft winter is already on the way out.

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6.18° above normal here compared to UGN's normal temperatures. 14.1" of snow this month was a drastic improvement over December. At least this month gave us a little winter. 2001-2002 was still the worst winter in terms of snowfall to this point then this year here. 14.4" vs. 16.0". January 2006 was still warmer than this January at +10.93°. This month produced more snowfall than Jan. 06 at 12.8".

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SBN didn't just break the record, they destroyed it.

RECORD EVENT REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA

1215 AM EST WED FEB 1 2012

...RECORD WARM MINIMUM TEMPERATURE SET AT SOUTH BEND...

THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT SOUTH BEND YESTERDAY WAS 45 DEGREES. THIS

BREAKS THE OLD RECORD WARM MINIMUM OF 37 SET IN 1988 AND TIED ONCE

AGAIN IN 1989.

Meanwhile, IND broke the same record, but not quite as impressive as South Bend.

RECORD EVENT REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN

1255 AM EDT WED FEB 1 2012

...RECORD HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURE SET AT INDIANAPOLIS...

THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT THE INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON

JANUARY 31 WAS 50 DEGREES. THIS SETS A NEW RECORD FOR HIGHEST

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR THE DATE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 48 DEGREES

SET IN 1988.

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St. Louis has been completely crapped on this time around.

3.8" of snow so far. Two minor events. At least one of them was during temps in the teens and 20s so it was a nice dry blowing snow.

January leaves with a 26F+ anomaly day and 38.1F for the month tying 13th all time with 2002.

January finishes 6.1F above normal and 8.5F above the 1971-2000 normals.

December was 6.2F above normal and 11th warmest on record.

November was 4.2F above normal and 13th warmest on record.

So the cold season has been steadily warm, but not off the charts, so it's not a total wash at this point.

February is going to start with 16-20F anomalies for 2-3 days then 10-15 for 2 days. Then a cool down towards 3-5F+ anomalies. Which this winter because of the lack of snow along the Rockies, models are to cold in the 5-8 day range here with these HP's.

Either way, that will put us around 11-13F+ by the end of week one.

With only 21 days to knock that off. I would be betting Feb will end up well above normal.

I know the patterns have flipped, but it is just amazing how different one winter to the next can be around here.

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We started and ended the month warm, but the cold in the middle knocked us down to only the 7th warmest January since 1953. We averaged a huge 7 degrees cooler than January 2006. I didn't have any snow until the 12th, but the next two weeks led to this being the 5th snowiest January since 1953.

Temp: 25.7F +6.4

Snow: 12.2 inches

Had 7 days with highs in the 50s.

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January 2012 in central Indiana.

Average Temperature

Bloomington: 34.1º +4.7º

Indianapolis: 33.7º +5.6º

Lafayette: 31.9º +5.4º

Muncie: 30.8º +4.3º

Shelbyville: 34.0º +5.3º

Terre Haute: 33.6º +5.4º

Total Precipitation

Bloomington: 3.14" -0.17"

Indianapolis: 3.48" +0.82"

Lafayette: 2.31" +0.45" (missing data for the 25-26th, total not correct)

Muncie: 2.37" +0.14"

Shelbyville: 3.58" +1.19"

Terre Haute: 2.81" +0.45"

Snowfall

Indianapolis: 4.4" -4.2"

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LSE

23.8F +6.4

13.2 inches of snow

Doesn't touch top 10...probably top 20, however...

Signs of how pathetic Lake Effect snow is in warm weather: We've had about 40 inches so far this winter (mostly lake effect) and have pretty much no snow left (except in shade and big piles). Several inches of the stuff melted in a few hours earlier this week. No moisture to it whatsoever!

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January climate data:


                  Monthly Climatological Summary for Jan 2012

Name: KWISAUKV3   City: Saukville   State: WI
Elevation: 800 ft  Lat: N 43° 22' 04"   Lon: W 087° 56' 50"

                 Temperature (°F), Rain (in), Wind Speed (mph)

                                     Heat  Cool        Avg
   Mean                              Deg   Deg         Wind                 Dom
Day Temp  High   Time   Low    Time   Days  Days  Rain  Speed High   Time    Dir
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1  31.7  38.9   2:28a  23.9  11:58p  33.3   0.0  0.18   7.3  39.0  10:12a   WNW
2  18.8  24.0  12:04a  12.8  11:57p  46.2   0.0  0.00   5.9  29.0   1:51a    NW
3  16.5  25.0  11:53p   7.1   7:32a  48.5   0.0  0.00   2.5  17.0   7:07p   WSW
4  27.6  31.8   3:05p  20.0   5:27a  37.4   0.0  0.00   4.0  18.0   4:35p   WNW
5  37.3  48.0  11:14p  27.5   6:32a  27.7   0.0  0.00   3.0  22.0   8:32p     W
6  44.5  48.5  11:39a  38.7   7:18a  20.5   0.0  0.00   3.3  20.0  12:20a     W
7  33.8  39.6  12:00a  26.6   8:02p  31.2   0.0  0.00   3.3  18.0   3:02a   WNW
8  29.9  41.2   1:40p  19.2   5:56a  35.1   0.0  0.00   1.4  15.0   1:56p     W
9  36.6  45.3   3:12p  28.6   1:10a  28.4   0.0  0.00   5.2  28.0   1:30p     W
10  38.7  51.5   3:15p  25.9   7:35a  26.0   0.0  0.00   1.6  15.0  12:45p    SW
11  38.2  53.5  12:36p  28.6   6:35a  26.8   0.0  0.00   0.5   8.0  11:03p   WSW
12  27.7  34.9  12:46a  18.5  11:40p  37.0   0.0  0.00   4.0  21.0  11:15p   NNW
13  19.8  23.5  12:50p  16.5  11:55p  45.2   0.0  0.00   3.6  16.0   5:26a    NW
14  15.9  20.8  12:49p  10.8  11:59p  49.1   0.0  0.00   1.5  10.0  12:15a   WNW
15  23.4  31.8   1:55p   9.8  12:40a  41.6   0.0  0.00   3.4  23.0   6:00p   SSE
16  34.6  42.1   1:30p  26.7   3:48a  30.1   0.0  0.02   1.9  13.0   6:40p   WSW
17  24.7  33.8   3:14a  10.4  11:57p  40.3   0.0  0.00   5.5  25.0  11:05a   NNW
18  13.8  24.0  11:42p   1.7   6:32a  51.2   0.0  0.00   2.3  18.0   7:08p   SSW
19   6.3  24.4   1:10a  -2.9  11:36p  58.7   0.0  0.00   5.6  26.0   7:24a   WNW
20   3.7   8.4  12:46p  -4.6   4:01a  61.3   0.0  0.00   0.9   8.0   8:42p   NNW
21  14.5  27.9  11:03p  -1.9   7:22a  49.6   0.0  0.00   1.0  16.0  10:11p   SSE
22  29.7  37.8   6:24p  24.6   2:11a  35.3   0.0  0.00   6.0  19.0   3:52a   SSE
23  33.6  41.2   2:33a  33.6  12:00a  31.4   0.0  0.00   7.0   5.0  12:00a   SSE
24  28.5  31.1   3:15p  18.5  11:42p  35.9   0.0  0.45   4.8  22.0  11:30a   SSW
25  27.9  32.7   5:45p  18.0  12:33a  37.1   0.0  0.00   0.7   9.0  10:41p   SSE
26  33.1  38.4   3:36p  29.4  12:24a  31.9   0.0  0.05   1.8  12.0   2:42a    SW
27  34.6  40.7   2:41p  28.5   7:44a  30.4   0.0  0.00   3.3  15.0   9:14p     W
28  27.7  33.1  12:00a  23.5   7:35a  37.3   0.0  0.00   7.7  34.0   1:04p     W
29  21.2  25.9  12:00a  14.6  11:57p  43.8   0.0  0.00   3.0  23.0   2:01p   WNW
30  30.6  43.7   3:33p  12.2   1:43a  34.4   0.0  0.00   1.4  21.0   8:45a     S
31  46.7  53.4   2:09p  39.9  11:52p  18.3   0.0  0.00   5.6  25.0  11:54a   WSW
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   27.5  53.5    11    -4.6    20  1161.0   0.0  0.70   3.5  39.0     1       W

Max >=  90.0:  0
Max <=  32.0: 12
Min <=  32.0: 28
Min <=   0.0:  3
Max Rain: 0.45 on day 24
Days of Rain: 4 (> 0.01 in)  2 (> 0.10 in)  0 (> 1.00 in)
Heat Base: 65.0  Cool Base: 65.0  Method: Integration

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