November 2025 General Discussion

[nvck]

8 hours ago, KeenerWx said:

IEM is such a fun little rabbit hole to sink into. Especially when things are quiet. Looked at tornado warning counts over the past nearing 20 years (2005-2025). A few things stood out to me in particular right away. 
 

There was one small area in Illinois that has had 0 tornado warnings in the past 20 years, near Dalzell (NNW of Peru) in LaSalle County. 
 

 

Similarly, two small areas in Iowa that have had 0 tornado warnings in same period. One in W Winneshiek County, around/east of Protivin. The other in Ida County around Battle Creek.
 

 

Indiana appeared to have full coverage over the period, which is what I’d expected from IL/IA. MN/WI/MI/OH had several gaps, but again expected given areas reaching further outside the core climatological favored areas for svr/tor. 
 

One interesting part for MN, though, was the boundary between Grand Folks & Duluth CWA. Particularly pronounced between Wadena & Cass Counties. You’ll see it immediately.  There’s definitely more county boundary differences that become noticeable but that one jumped out to me quite a bit compared to the rest of the field I looked at. 

 

 

nice! yeah its a really easy way to spend an hour or two when i should be studying, to waste time. grand forks does seem a little trigger happy on their eastern counties there...

[Brian D]

Now that gov is open again, have data for Sept & Oct. Both on the warmer side. 5 & 10 yr trend charts for each month shown respectively. 

[A-L-E-K]

the euro is pretty rough 

[TheClimateChanger]

https://twitter.com/CIRA_CSU/status/1990908932274225661?s=20

[A-L-E-K]

miss south^

[DocATL]

Don’t want to be in the bullseye of the storm tracks this far out. Good to have the pieces coming into place.

[nvck]

got down to 18 this morning, with some very efficient radiational cooling. Still have a layer of ice pellets on the grass from yesterday's bizarre very wet snow/sleet mix. 

[A-L-E-K]

looks like we're waiting until past tday before any system of note looks likely to impact the region

snow chances still naso great imby climatologically speaking but we're not far off now

[Frog Town]

You don't see this that often so things can, and have, been worse.  

[RogueWaves]

3 hours ago, Frog Town said:

You don't see this that often so things can, and have, been worse.  

 Absolutely they've looked/been worse but last year was cold and slightly AN snow for my area including a solid white Christmas but Dec climo is much stronger here as well. Second morning in the mid-teens and large ponds held ice all day despite ample sun. Matter of time now and seeing if a decent system can come together to kick-start the December party.

[Jackstraw]

1 hour ago, RogueWaves said:

 Absolutely they've looked/been worse but last year was cold and slightly AN snow for my area including a solid white Christmas but Dec climo is much stronger here as well. Second morning in the mid-teens and large ponds held ice all day despite ample sun. Matter of time now and seeing if a decent system can come together to kick-start the December party.

My climo isn't exactly December friendly but lately winter isn't friendly period. That snow the first week of this month was half of my total last year. That ain't climo, that's just stupid lol