Chicago WX Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Current weather is kind of boring, so why not reminisce a little. In this thread we can post/discuss our favorite past December winter storms. One of mine goes back to the great month of December 2000. Fairly expansive area that received some form of wintry precipitation with this storm. Blizzard Warnings were issued late in the storm for parts of NE IL and NW IN. Fun storm in a fun month of winter. December 10-12, 2000 Winter Storm Surface maps from 0z 12/11 to 12z 12/12. Surface animation from IWX: National radar loops in six hour increments. 12/10 6:00pm to 12:00am: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2000&month=12&day=10&hour=18&minute=0 12/11 12:00am to 6:00am: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2000&month=12&day=11&hour=0&minute=0 12/11 6:00am to 12:00pm: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2000&month=12&day=11&hour=6&minute=0 12/11 12:00pm to 6:00pm: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2000&month=12&day=11&hour=12&minute=0 12/11 6:00pm to 12:00am: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2000&month=12&day=11&hour=18&minute=0 12/12 12:00am to 6:00am: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2000&month=12&day=12&hour=0&minute=0 Some snowfall totals from official sites: Alpena MI (APN): 6.0" Chicago IL (ORD): 9.5" Chicago IL (MDW): 14.5" Des Moines IA (DSM): 9.0" Detroit MI (DTW): 6.1" Dubuque IA (DBQ): 9.0" Flint MI (FNT): 14.0" Grand Rapids MI (GRR): 15.2" Lansing MI (LAN): 15.0" London ON (YXU): 9.5" Milwaukee WI (MKE): 13.6" Moline IL (MLI): 9.9" Muskegon MI (MKG): 13.0" Peoria IL (PIA): 8.0" Rockford IL (RFD): 8.3" Saginaw MI (MBS): 9.8" South Bend IN (SBN): 12.0" Toronto ON (downtown): 8.0" Toronto ON (YYZ): 8.0" Waterloo IA (ALO): 7.0" Windsor ON (YQG): 8.3" *May be some LES from 12/12 included in some of the amounts above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illinois Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 December 2004 was the big one around and just south of here. 30 + inches across parts of southern Indiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 December 2004 was the big one around and just south of here. 30 + inches across parts of southern Indiana. That'd be my favorite. Saw over 24 inches in that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 December 2004 was the big one around and just south of here. 30 + inches across parts of southern Indiana. Yep, that was a really big one. Very impressive storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Dec 10th-11th 2000 is my favorite December storm to date.. I got somewhere around 12-16 inches from that one. Took just over 13 years to exceed 1 foot again, finally cracked 12 inches on the Jan 5th storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonOH Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 December 2004 was the big one around and just south of here. 30 + inches across parts of southern Indiana. My top storm, 20in exactly here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Dec 15-16, 2007 had 10.5" in LAF. Tim threw in the towel during the storm (as usual ). Storm totals approached 18" in parts of north central IN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 One of the best Christmas presents ever. I went nothing in the forecast 24-36 hours out...to ending up with around 7.0". December 24-25, 2002 winter storm. National radar loops. 12/24 6:00am to 12:00pm: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2002&month=12&day=24&hour=6&minute=0 12/24 12:00pm to 6:00pm: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2002&month=12&day=24&hour=12&minute=0 12/24 6:00pm to 12:00am: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2002&month=12&day=24&hour=18&minute=0 12/25 12:00am to 6:00am: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=73&interval=5&year=2002&month=12&day=25&hour=0&minute=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Dec 15-16, 2007 had 10.5" in LAF. Tim threw in the towel during the storm (as usual ). Storm totals approached 18" in parts of north central IN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 Dec 15-16, 2007 had 10.5" in LAF. Tim threw in the towel during the storm (as usual ). Storm totals approached 18" in parts of north central IN. I always do in the bigger ones. Though I think I was "good" before/during Feb 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 December 8, 2005.... Midway had a plane skid with that one i believe, sadly, killing a boy...but the storm was a memorable one for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 As far s Dec. 11, 2000, that storm had an impressive snowfall gradient in Detroit. The northern suburbs picked up 14-16" while the southern suburbs (including DTW) only picked up 4-8" due in mixing. I think it was primarily an ice storm along the Ohio Border. Even parts of Detroit proper, particularly the NW and NE part of town, picked up more snow than the 6.1" at DTW. On the 11 PM news, City Airport (DET) had a snowfall report of 10.5". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 As far s Dec. 11, 2000, that storm had an extreme snowfall gradient in Detroit. The northern suburbs picked up 14-16" while the southern suburbs (including DTW) only picked up 4-8" due in mixing. I think it was primarily an ice storm along the Ohio Border. Even parts of Detroit proper, particularly the NW and NE part of town, picked up more snow than the 6.1" at DTW. On the 11 PM news, City Airport (DET) had a snowfall report of 10.5". Port Huron picked up 20.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 The 12/25-26/2009 occludedsystemvorthighratiofluffevent is probably the best December event here. If you cover my whole lifetime, you can add in the aforementioned 12/10-12/2000 snowstorm, but that occurred just outside of my good weather memory. Then the 90's were not great for big dogs here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 I'd love to see this one again. Infamous Dec 87 blizzard. 50-60mph winds and tremendous thundersnow that lasted for hours. It ranks up there with GHD for the most brutal blizzard I've seen. I'd probably rank it higher locally, as GHD failed to produced thundersnow here. 20mb drop in 12hrs, peaking around 978mb between Champaign and Chicago. Excellent writeup about the storm. http://weather.ou.edu/~hblue/metr6413/Schneider90.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 December 8, 2005.... Midway had a plane skid with that one i believe, sadly, killing a boy...but the storm was a memorable one for me The "wall of snow" storm. It went quickly from first flakes to mod/heavy snow here in the LAF. A relatively quick hitter, but it poured snowed for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 One of the best Christmas presents ever. I went nothing in the forecast 24-36 hours out...to ending up with around 7.0". December 24-25, 2002 winter storm. That's my most memorable December storm because of the surprise factor and it happened on Christmas Eve/Day. 8.2" in 24 hours at FWA and widespread 7" - 10" reports throughout the area with a forecast of flurries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 12/1/2006 storm that backed in from the southeast was a fun one as well. 10" or so here, and no snow at all about 50 miles northwest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 December 8, 2005.... Midway had a plane skid with that one i believe, sadly, killing a boy...but the storm was a memorable one for me Probably one of my favorite non-major storms. It ramped up from nothing to heavy snow very fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 The 12/25-26/2009 occludedsystemvorthighratiofluffevent is probably the best December event here. If you cover my whole lifetime, you can add in the aforementioned 12/10-12/2000 snowstorm, but that occurred just outside of my good weather memory. Then the 90's were not great for big dogs here. That whole event was pretty cool. Started with a freezing rain event on the 23rd. Heavy rain on the afternoon and evening of the 24th. Then, a changeover to snow from south to north on Christmas day as the cold air wrapped all the way around and up over our part of the MW. Of course, then you have the high-ratio surprise event to top things off on the 26th. Very cool storm system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Port Huron picked up 20.5" I think some of that was Lake Effect Snow though... If I recall, your backyard and SW to the Jackson area was within the bullseye for the synoptic snows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 I think some of that was Lake Effect Snow though... If I recall, your backyard and SW to the Jackson area was within the bullseye for the synoptic snows. They had help from Huron... I don't think it was separate. Biggest storm for MBY ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 For a non-snow, the December 9, 2007 ice storm. Wasn't huge as we picked up about a third of an inch of ice on elevated objects, but it was accompanied by some thunder. There was some uncertainty over whether the subfreezing near-sfc air would be able to hang on but it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 I'd love to see this one again. Infamous Dec 87 blizzard. 50-60mph winds and tremendous thundersnow that lasted for hours. It ranks up there with GHD for the most brutal blizzard I've seen. I'd probably rank it higher locally, as GHD failed to produced thundersnow here. 20mb drop in 12hrs, peaking around 978mb between Champaign and Chicago. Excellent writeup about the storm. http://weather.ou.edu/~hblue/metr6413/Schneider90.pdf Although the main show was north of here (in terms of snow), there was a peak gust of 69 mph at LAF. METAR KLAF 151500Z 21026G51KT 7SM OVC015 00/M04 A2918 RMK SE40 PK WIND 2160/09/ SLP887 8/5// T00001038 51027 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 "Throw in the towel" storm totals. I experienced thundersnow. Areas just east of me (FWA) and east had less snow due to zr and sl**t mixing in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Then there was this one. It wasn't that impressive of a storm, but still notable and of course busted in good ways and bad for folks in our subforum... December 26th, 2012: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Port Huron picked up 20.5" It was lake enhanced in Port Huron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 As far s Dec. 11, 2000, that storm had an impressive snowfall gradient in Detroit. The northern suburbs picked up 14-16" while the southern suburbs (including DTW) only picked up 4-8" due in mixing. I think it was primarily an ice storm along the Ohio Border. Even parts of Detroit proper, particularly the NW and NE part of town, picked up more snow than the 6.1" at DTW. On the 11 PM news, City Airport (DET) had a snowfall report of 10.5". I had 6.4" and like 0.75" of freezing rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Going chronologically..... December 2000 was awesome for how snowy it was, but as said THE storm was snow AND a ton of ice here Dec 24/25, 2002: 6.8" of snow that fell at the PERFECT time (10pm Christmas Eve thru 3pm Christmas Day) and was 100% unforecast until the last minute. DTW had 6.5" Dec 22/23, 2004: We were fringed with 8.4" of snow, which was better than I was expecting. DTW had 8.9". Dec 8/9, 2005: 6.8" of snow...fell heavily during the evening. DTW had 6.2". Dec 15/16, 2007: Loved this storm....9.8" here with 9.0" at DTW Dec 19, 2008: Though storm total was 8.2" here & 7.9" at DTW, 6" of it fell in 3 hours Dec 12, 2010: Loved this storm. Storm total of 6.3" but the first ~4" was wet cakey snow that plastered everything, then as temps fell the remaining snow was powder, the roads were glued with frozen snow that no plow could get to, and the snow depth didnt budge all of Dec despite quiet weather. Dec 26/27, 2012: Powerball mentioned above. 6.3" here and 6.2" at DTW. Good storm after the first 3 weeks of December saw literally NO snow. Dec 14, 2013: Nice way to start a historic season. 8.4" here and 7.7" at DTW. Didnt snow terribly heavily but snowed all day long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Port Huron picked up 20.5" 18.5" In Albion which is halfway between here and Jackson and 15" in Lansing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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