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January 24 - 31 Cold Blast


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Moderating effect of Lake Michigan is just insane. Only -2 still here in Milwaukee but -21 in Burlington. Is there something about that area, perhaps the soil, that causes such an insane temp difference? Waukesha is about just as inland and is at only -9.

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Moderating effect of Lake Michigan is just insane. Only -2 still here in Milwaukee but -21 in Burlington. Is there something about that area, perhaps the soil, that causes such an insane temp difference?

Winds are offshore, so it’s really not lake related.

It’s more-so the UHI there as well as areas further west being more low-lying and cold air drainage areas, commonly colder during nights like this.


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5 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:


Winds are offshore, so it’s really not lake related.

It’s more-so the UHI there as well as areas further west being more low-lying and cold air drainage areas, commonly colder during nights like this.


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I think MLI may have a little problem with UHI tonight as well.  They can be one of the colder spots around, but tonight we have a very slight north wind that may be advecting the UHI impacted temps down to MLI from the QC.  Surrounding locations are quite a bit colder. 

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51 minutes ago, Scorpion said:

That’s just absurd! They gonna hit near -40 tonight at this rate. Meanwhile holding steady at -5 or so here, I highly doubt we get below -15 next week either.

It's really hard to extrapolate -29 to -40. I have noticed on extremely cold nights the temp drops like a rock, then very suddenly hits a bottom and usually rebounds some, just to crash again to a lower bottom. -40 is much harder to get than -29, however saying you wont get under 15 below next week is way too early to call and I believe there is a very high probability of it busting. Especially since the airmass will be colder AND any warming effects will be severely hampered by this current cold air.

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34 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

This morning is out-doing 2014 temp wise in a lot of places around the area, some by a wide margin.

 

Only difference is little to no wind chill.

 

 

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This made me look it up and this morning was the coldest air temp for Madison since Feb 1996

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Coldest reading I could find in the state is -32 for a low up in Manitowish Waters. For the southern par of the state it's -29 at Lone Rock. Both of those spots aren't surprising in the least. I wonder what the chances of someone getting close to the state record low are next week. That record is -55 set in Couderay back in the 1996 cold wave.

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Also the records for Illinois are -36 set in 1999 at East St Louis, for Minnesota -60 set in 1996 at Tower, for Michigan -51 set in 1934 at Vanderbilt, and for Indiana -36 set in 1994 at New Whiteland and for Iowa -47 set in 1996 at Elkader. I'd say the most likely records to be broken would probably be Illinois and Iowa with a medium chance for Wisconsin and an outside shot for Minnesota and Indiana.

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Actually the IL all time coldest temp was recorded in Congerville, not East St. Louis. Pretty crazy that -36ºF was recorded so far south in the state. I live just a few miles from Congerville so I will be disappointed if our record gets taken away from us by a place further north in the state. :lol:

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