December 2025 General Discussion

[nvck]

2 hours ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Some of the cheapest tickets I have seen available for this Sunday. Tons of lower bowl seats for well under $200. 

bengals tickets for a game w/ low teens air temp and sd's wind chill are going for about $20 on the upper bowl, lower for 40-50. Will probably be there, thats almost too good to pass up.

[cutlew]

Bears game will be cold but temps in low teens and wind chill around 0? That’s probably an every few years occurrence (if not more frequent) in the NFL between there, Lambeau Field, Arrowhead, etc.


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[Stevo6899]

2 hours ago, cutlew said:

Bears game will be cold but temps in low teens and wind chill around 0? That’s probably an every few years occurrence (if not more frequent) in the NFL between there, Lambeau Field, Arrowhead, etc.


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More like -20/-30

[frostfern]

22 hours ago, roardog said:

It just really boils down to you not being happy with the climo of where you live. Most people don’t have ability to just up and move to wherever they want. You can’t expect Chicago to have the climo that you desire. I don’t even think International Falls or the U.P would work for you. Judging by your rants, I think you’re more of an Edmonton guy. I guess if becoming Canadian isn’t your thing then Fairbanks might work. 

I imagine Edmonton can get chanooks which he would absolutely hate.  I bet it also it has a similar snowfall pattern to other places to the lee of the Rockies, namely big dog storms happen mostly in the spring and fall with the heart of the winter being rather boring.  I’m only really familiar with Calgary though.  Edmonton likely has more snow and less chanooks.  The amount of CAD would be miserable to me though.

[Brian D]

5 hours ago, cutlew said:

Curious what your season snow total is now up there?

With the last of the clipper train coming through today I was looking at various places in eastern/central MN over toward Green Bay, and while we’re not breaking records based on MN historically, certainly these two weeks have been a pretty impressive early winter period and better than I can remember for quite a while.

Varies a little by exact location but:
- 12-15 out of 17 days with snow recorded
- Snow totals 15-20+” with most seeing two pretty solid 4-6” events
- Broad swath of snow depth 8-12”
- After this weekend, 7-10 days of min temp at or below 0 from Dec 1st through 14th (outside of MSP proper which stayed above zero a few more times)


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In my sig  (TH 7NW hasn't updated yet. Observer sends in every 2 weeks or so)

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Front blasted through. Winds howling, snapped this photo at work right before all the snow was blown off the trees. 

[Chicago Storm]

I officially brought the snow depth down to 0" this evening at ORD (Really its a T, but we don't report that).

We've been barely hanging on to 1" for a day or two now, but there's just too much grass showing all-around to keep that fantasy going any longer.

[cyclone77]

Have about 3-4" of leftover arctic crust here.  Should add 1/3-2/3" of pixies to it tomorrow.

[michsnowfreak]

24 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

Have about 3-4" of leftover arctic crust here.  Should add 1/3-2/3" of pixies to it tomorrow.

Similar here. 3" of frozen crust. At least it's still white.

[Cartier God]

Was about to drop 400 bones on an ice shanty. Might shelf that one for a bit


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[OrdIowPitMsp]

-5F. I think it’ll be an indoors Saturday for us. 

[Brian D]

-10's across NE MN (some -20's) even on the shoreline. Wind chills in the -30's to -40+ in some places. Bitter am. Picked up a 1/4" of snow yesterday. -12 in town here is tied 6th coldest this morning. -16 at DLH is tied 6th coldest as well. Another bitter day tomorrow, then things start to warm  

[cyclone77]

Really feels like the arctic out there today with snow falling and a temp of 5 degrees.  

Pretty cool to see how different the weather can vary from season to season.  Extreme tropical humidity with 82+ dewpoints, to true arctic conditions a few months later.  

[beavis1729]

21 hours ago, frostfern said:

I imagine Edmonton can get chanooks which he would absolutely hate.  I bet it also it has a similar snowfall pattern to other places to the lee of the Rockies, namely big dog storms happen mostly in the spring and fall with the heart of the winter being rather boring.  I’m only really familiar with Calgary though.  Edmonton likely has more snow and less chanooks.  The amount of CAD would be miserable to me though.

INL would absolutely be great. Even during winter 2011-12, which was horrendous for nearly all of us, INL still had continuous snow cover for 3.5 months. Think about that. The most pathetic winter in our parts still ended up with more days with snow cover than Chicago’s best winter on record (1978-79). That drives me crazy, the huge winter gradient over a relatively short distance. So close, yet so far. I feel even worse for winter lovers in STL or southern IL, where they essentially have no winter…and it’s not really that far away from here. 

The big issue for me is the volatility. The down periods of winter are so bad, that they overwhelm any good periods. No matter how good it has been from late November through December 10 (which then got dropped down several notches due to the ridiculous snow melt event from a few days ago), there looks to be very little snow over the next 3 weeks. What should happen is, even in the down periods, there’s at least 3” of snow every 7-10 days. It’s horrible to go 2-3 weeks without any snow cover and cold. 

To sum everything up - we supposedly had a great winter period, but then ORD ends up with no snow cover at the end of the supposed good period. How does that happen? The bad period hasn’t even started yet! Winter is supposed to feature certain things, so it sucks when it doesn’t, no matter where you live and regardless of what climo says. 

[Chinook]

large section of -25F temps in Saskatchewan, also large section of -15F in Minnesota