IWXwx Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 lol -18 for LAF and -15 for FWA (their record is -16) I've got a shot at nailing FWA as it was -14 at the 7AM reading. However, I'm gonna bust hard on my Tropics of LAF prediction. -11 at 7AM. I should have known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sokolow Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 -27 from prairie outpost Little Falls, MN. And calm! Thank goodness for that. -15 in the Twin Cities. Get to drive back today, hope 90/94 is tolerable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vespasian70 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 And we did it: -22 a new daily record. The all time record low will have to wait for another time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 -17 at Grissom (ignoring the torching and often wrong Kokomo Airport) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Only made -13 here. 8 degrees warmer than point forecast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 About -12, -13° right now with the sun coming over the horizon. Thought I had a fair shot at -15°. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 looks like LAF bottomed out at -13F. Might peg it again as the sun comes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sokolow Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Cold and clear makes for pretty skies and shaky hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I saw something awesome while I was driving south on M-10 towards downtown today...Ice fog maybe? It made everything all fuzzy and hazy and there was this sundog looking half rainbow that was insanely vivid. I was just past I-94 and it was shining down right over top of the Penobscot building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Tough to say whether this January will end up colder than Jan 2009 at YYZ. Next 3 days look to get us there, but the SW flow ahead of that clipper on Friday may spoil the party by a tenth of a degree or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I got -19.5F right now..not sure what the low was since mine wasn't reset....it didn't get past last cold blasts -22.2F... Looks like both the bluff an airport show -17F, so i might be running a little cold. Looks like temps held up most the night until just the past couple of hours when the winds went calm, which is where we are at right now judging by the looks out the frost windows. Nice morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Tough to say whether this January will end up colder than Jan 2009 at YYZ. Next 3 days look to get us there, but the SW flow ahead of that clipper on Friday may spoil the party by a tenth of a degree or two. Wouldn't that be something if we ended up with only the coldest January in five years after all the freaking out in the general public and media. People have such short memories when it comes to the weather. Still, it may end up the coldest winter in 20 years, depending on how February turns out given December this year was colder than that of 2002, 2003 or 2008. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Wouldn't that be something if we ended up with only the coldest January in five years after all the freaking out in the general public and media. People have such short memories when it comes to the weather. Still, it may end up the coldest winter in 20 years, depending on how February turns out given December this year was colder than that of 2002, 2003 or 2008. yup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Perfect calm is always better than low thicknesses but 5-7 mph wind over snow cover, so might expect that some places will do better for their Wed morning low than overnight tonight, even if cirrus is overspreading by dawn. Surface ridge axis for the win on extreme lows, w MN to central IA then into IL-IN but here it's a fight between deeper snow cover and better radiation so the pattern will not continue to hug the ridge line so much. Models probably need a regional heat island escape and regional mixing boost of 3-4 F deg, they are tending to show what lows would have been in 19th century before any large urbanization, there's a secondary mixing effect outside of actual urban heat islands because some of that anomalous warmth has to escape then it mixes into the ambient surroundings. I also feel that deeper snow cover radiates more effectively, so that colder pools form over lake effect snow fields if the air is not moving over the lake that produced them. This is how I managed to get a -41 reading in Jan 76, there was over a foot of snow from previous two days of lake effect, a few nights before over half that snow pack, -35. Roger, I bottomed out at about -2f, or -18.8c this morning, likely due to the strong winds. What are your thoughts for the Toronto suburbs tonight? Looks to be windy again, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 To be honest, even -20F isn't that rare around these parts. Deep snow cover/clear skies/light winds will do it pretty easily any winter around here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitelakeroy Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 To be honest, even -20F isn't that rare around these parts. Deep snow cover/clear skies/light winds will do it pretty easily any winter around here... I would agree. Get the right radiational cooling and it can drop like a rock!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 4 hours straight of -13, followed by 3 hours of -14, and an intra-hour low of -15. Sure it's cold, but it's nothing like 1/6, when we had -16 for consecutive hours and a 26 mph sustained wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Air temperature rose 3° on the drive in this morning. This made the cold morning well worth it. Most beautiful ice formation I've seen on any of my windows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Air temperature rose 3° on the drive in this morning. This made the cold morning well worth it. Most beautiful ice formation I've seen on any of my windows! Epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 nice pic, geos. there were a bunch like that on the trib gallery i linked yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewers Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 -12 at MKE and RAC. Weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 -12 at MKE and RAC. Weak. Might get a few more chances: http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/ensemble/naefs/semaine2/images/2014012800_054@007_E1_north@america_I_NAEFS@TEMPERATURE_anomaly@probability@combined@week2_198.png Southern end of L Michigan has a nice sheet of ice around it... Maybe walk from Milwaukee to the beautiful city of Gary, Indiana? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewers Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Might get a few more chances: http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/ensemble/naefs/semaine2/images/2014012800_054@007_E1_north@america_I_NAEFS@TEMPERATURE_anomaly@probability@combined@week2_198.png Southern end of L Michigan has a nice sheet of ice around it... Maybe walk from Milwaukee to the beautiful city of Gary, Indiana? Yup, I don't think we're done with the cold quite yet, cold enough to break records? That remains to be seen... I've never seen so much ice on the lake before, its pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Warming up quickly...after dropping -19F ish...my temp at the house is showing -4F... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Up to -5* now near downtown Racine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Made it down to -11 at ORD and -12 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I saw something awesome while I was driving south on M-10 towards downtown today...Ice fog maybe? It made everything all fuzzy and hazy and there was this sundog looking half rainbow that was insanely vivid. I was just past I-94 and it was shining down right over top of the Penobscot building. Hoar Frost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 LOT chopped the WC warning out and placed an advisory only for the northern areas. Up to -2°. Should reach 0° by 12:30 or so. I like the last sentence. .DISCUSSION...1130 AM CSTHAVE CONVERTED THE WIND CHILL WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL WEDMORNING TO A WIND CHILL ADVISORY FOR FORECAST WIND CHILL VALUESOF -20 TO -25...WITH -25 TO -30 IN PARTS OF MAINLY NORTH CENTRALIL.A BITTERLY COLD MORNING WITH NEGATIVE DOUBLE DIGIT AIRTEMPERATURES ACROSS ALMOST THE ENTIRE CWA...WITH -19 AT OUR COOPOBSERVER IN MARENGO OBSERVING THE COLDEST. THE ARCTIC HIGH WILLCONTINUE TO SLIDE SOUTHEAST KEEPING A PRESSURE GRADIENT OVER THEAREA. WINDS HAVE GRADUALLY INCREASED AND SHOULD SEE THAT PERSISTINTO AFTERNOON...BUT TEMPERATURES WILL OFFSET THAT MORE SOALLOWING WIND CHILLS TO CONTINUE TO CLIMB. WITH WIND CHILL READINGSABOVE WARNING CRITERIA /-30/ ALREADY AND TEMPERATURES NOT FORECASTTO DROP ANYWHERE NEAR AS QUICKLY THIS EVENING AS THEY DID LASTNIGHT...THUS ALLOWING WIND CHILLS MORE OF -20 TO -28...HAVE GONEAHEAD WITH THE ADVISORY.ONLY OTHER ADJUSTMENT WAS TO BUMP UP TEMPS A DEGREE OR SO...WITH AFEW DEGREES IN THE FAR SOUTHERN CWA WHERE THE LACK OF SNOW COVERAPPEARS TO BE INFLUENCING TEMPS. AT 11 AM IT WAS 3 IN PONTIAC...4IN LACON...AND 7 IN PEORIA AND CHAMPAIGN ALREADY. THAT WARMTH/ODD WE CALL THAT WARMTH NOW/ SHOULD EXPAND ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHERNFORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Wind chill not nearly as low as it was forecasted to be... School cancel fail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Anyone else had any house damage from the weather? We had a rafter snap in the roof under the snow a few weeks ago, now with the freezing/thawing, they shingles are leaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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