cyclone77 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Chazz = salkville? lol I think it was Chaz Bono. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 still trying to catch up on clearing snow. snow in the yard is deeper than my deck, so I decided to create a snowhenge. roof on my shed collapsed too :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 -18 here this morning. 31st day below zero. Thought we were done with the subzero lows, but tonight's point has been lowered to -5. Now it's been lowered to -10. Already back down to -3. -13 in Sterling. Thought this was pretty cool. Just east of here in Harmon some people built a big igloo inside a gigantic snow drift. http://wqad.com/2014/02/11/illinois-couple-builds-igloo-fit-to-live-in/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Been getting nice mood flakes all day, picked up a solid dusting. Looked real pretty and strange with the sun setting through the broken clouds. This morning was another first for me in this amazing winter. A snowband hugged....and i mean HUGGED the Detroit river. It was snowing at like a quarter mile visibility and it stayed stationary. I don't even know if it was from lake St Clair or the Detroit river or what. On my drive to work I went from heavy snow in my neighborhood to flurries about a half mile west. I had 0.7" of snow with 0.03" water, and driving home from work I could see the exact spot where the snow squall had set up shop because of where the snowbanks had a bit of a dirty look at the edge to fresh white. SSC liked to tease about a snow magnet, well I have to admit this mornings refresher is the true definition of snow magnet. Nothing forecast, nothing on radar, not a flake at DTW (though a T on the day from snow earlier in the morning). If not for the ASOS at Grosse Ile reporting snow much of the day I would have no other proof . Snapped this pic on the way to work. Three blocks past it, it was nothing but a stray flurry. And in the rearview mirror as I was driving on a E-W road, I could see the shroud of white behind me and clear ahead. Sort of similar to driving in and out of lake cells or bands, but this one just didnt move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Chiming in on the 1999 talk above. After a completely snowless Christmas season, we were buried in snow the first 2 weeks of January, and a near-record 2 feet depth on the 13th was down to just a T of depth by the 23rd. From late January thru February, we had 3 cementy cakey snowfalls (4.0" Jan 24/25...4.3" Feb 7 (total surprise)...3.5" Feb 23/24) each of which lasted on the ground not a full 2 days. Other than that, a sea of warmth...and I remember the 70F day on 2-11-99 as I was riding my bike with my cousin and I remember watching the old snowbanks dripping. Then winter returned for another weeklong visit in early March gave us 2 more snowstorms, 8.3" on the 5/6th and 4.3" on the 9th. A very strange winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Aurora -18º at 9:00pm...Rochelle -15º. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 still trying to catch up on clearing snow. snow in the yard is deeper than my deck, so I decided to create a snowhenge. roof on my shed collapsed too :/ securedownload.jpg Poor shed, hopefully you didn't have anything too important in there that needed to stay out of the elements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Chiming in on the 1999 talk above. After a completely snowless Christmas season, we were buried in snow the first 2 weeks of January, and a near-record 2 feet depth on the 13th was down to just a T of depth by the 23rd. From late January thru February, we had 3 cementy cakey snowfalls (4.0" Jan 24/25...4.3" Feb 7 (total surprise)...3.5" Feb 23/24) each of which lasted on the ground not a full 2 days. Other than that, a sea of warmth...and I remember the 70F day on 2-11-99 as I was riding my bike with my cousin and I remember watching the old snowbanks dripping. Then winter returned for another weeklong visit in early March gave us 2 more snowstorms, 8.3" on the 5/6th and 4.3" on the 9th. A very strange winter. Toronto will never live that winter down. It's the winter that our Mayor called in the army to help clear the snow. Toronto became the laughing stock of Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Chicago had 1.2" of snow for the season on Dec 31, 1998. Then 29.6" fell from Jan 1-23, 1999, punctuated by the 21.6" from the New Year's day blizzard. Only 1.9" was recorded from Jan 24 to Feb 28, 1999. And then...18.2" of snow from March 5-10, 1999. In the end, a season total of 50.9". One of the stranger big snowfall seasons there's ever been for Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Toronto will never live that winter down. It's the winter that our Mayor called in the army to help clear the snow. Toronto became the laughing stock of Canada. So did Detroit. They sold off all there equipment like degenerates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertSul Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Is it really -15 in Ann Arbor? Here in Canton, 15 miles away, we are registering at +5. Seems odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Now it's been lowered to -10. Already back down to -3. -13 in Sterling. Thought this was pretty cool. Just east of here in Harmon some people built a big igloo inside a gigantic snow drift. http://wqad.com/2014/02/11/illinois-couple-builds-igloo-fit-to-live-in/ Stop the madness already! lol Very cool video btw. I know it's 0° here already. Forecast is saying -2° only by 5am and then up! --- Very nice stonehenge Bo. Too bad your roof collapsed. I guess a sign that your winter has been harsh too. ...This site is super slow tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Is it really -15 in Ann Arbor? Here in Canton, 15 miles away, we are registering at +5. Seems odd. Cold air in the Huron Valley. We are down to 2 here at DTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Is it really -15 in Ann Arbor? Here in Canton, 15 miles away, we are registering at +5. Seems odd. Cold air in the Huron Valley. We are down to 2 here at DTW. Similar difference between Toronto and Kitchener in Ontario. Toronto is at about +5F while Kitchener, less than an hour to the west is at about -15F! By the way, take a look at what Watertown, New York is registering! That place is an ice box and a snow magnet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowMeHunter Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 GFS signaling a torch by the 21st or so? 2m temps near 50? o how we pray for that. hopefully immense flooding ensues.. gotta remember this winter for something. At least bo's shed roof collapsed AWT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Down to -6. May make a little run at zero Friday night, but other than that this should be the last night below zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Cold air in the Huron Valley. We are down to 2 here at DTW. Even more noticeable on super calm nights like this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Up at Sterling they've risen back up to -2 from -18 a few hours ago, while it's slowly settled down to -7 here. DVN and MLI are both above zero now. Seem to be one of the colder locations around at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I think the deep/dry snow cover can help strengthen the low-level inversion a bit, making for large changes with any disruption in the layer effect from the inversion. The deep/dry snow cover allows the very cold air to settle right to the surface with very little convective warm currents being allowed to radiate upward from the surface to help mix things. So any disruption to the extreme inversion on nights like this would likely only come from the wind stirring things up. When the ambient air mass isn't all that cold at 850 mb and/or 925 mb (like this evening), you need perfectly clear skies, light winds, and deep snowpack to get really cold temps to generate radiational cooling. If anything disturbs this (such as clouds or wind) for even a short amount of time, the air mixes and temps shoot up. This is different than the cold outbreak in early Jan 2014, which was mainly a cold advection event with a very cold air mass. Thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Toronto will never live that winter down. It's the winter that our Mayor called in the army to help clear the snow. Toronto became the laughing stock of Canada. Rubes in places like Edmonton where I'm at look under rocks for reasons to bash Toronto. Could have been an objectively reasonable decision and it wouldn't matter. Textbook inferiority complex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Rubes in places like Edmonton where I'm at look under rocks for reasons to bash Toronto. Could have been an objectively reasonable decision and it wouldn't matter. Textbook inferiority complex. This. Toronto is really disliked in other areas of Canada, for a number of reasons. Traffic, the fact its a hectic place, ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 This. Toronto is really disliked in other areas of Canada, for a number of reasons. Traffic, the fact its a hectic place, ect. lol, it runs a lot deeper than that. But this is not the place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 lol, it runs a lot deeper than that. But this is not the place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 ooooh kaaay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 -6 just after midnight here. Makes for #32 of the season. Amazing number considering 11/12 and 12/13 both only had 2 days each subzero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitelakeroy Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Is it really -15 in Ann Arbor? Here in Canton, 15 miles away, we are registering at +5. Seems odd. I have seen this multiple times. Just this past Monday it was -1 IMBY and 12 in Novi. Couple weeks ago it was -2 IMBY and 11 in Novi. Sky conditions were the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 This morning was another first for me in this amazing winter. A snowband hugged....and i mean HUGGED the Detroit river. It was snowing at like a quarter mile visibility and it stayed stationary. I don't even know if it was from lake St Clair or the Detroit river or what. On my drive to work I went from heavy snow in my neighborhood to flurries about a half mile west. I had 0.7" of snow with 0.03" water, and driving home from work I could see the exact spot where the snow squall had set up shop because of where the snowbanks had a bit of a dirty look at the edge to fresh white. SSC liked to tease about a snow magnet, well I have to admit this mornings refresher is the true definition of snow magnet. Nothing forecast, nothing on radar, not a flake at DTW (though a T on the day from snow earlier in the morning). If not for the ASOS at Grosse Ile reporting snow much of the day I would have no other proof . Snapped this pic on the way to work. Three blocks past it, it was nothing but a stray flurry. And in the rearview mirror as I was driving on a E-W road, I could see the shroud of white behind me and clear ahead. Sort of similar to driving in and out of lake cells or bands, but this one just didnt move. So THAT'S how it was aligned. Extremely interesting. Whatever it was, it's doing it again IMBY right now with another dusting. Also relatively warm with a temperature of 4 degrees while the airport sits at -2. I was confused earlier when I was driving and it was snowing pretty hard, but in the distance I could see the sun reflecting off of the buildings downtown. I guess downtown is far enough east that wherever the band was at, it was just enough to miss out on it completely. Meanwhile along I-75, big flakes were falling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 A good deal of the sub still has a foot plus of snow. pretty remarkable! Melt season will be horrible. All the time I lived in N IN, I can't recall a year with such an extended impressive snowpack. Areas near the lakes are in for a cold Spring! Ice is impressive this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 -16 here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 -18 at Port Huron.Freezing fog IMBY, looks cool with everything frosted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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