Winter 2025/26 Banter Thread

[hawkeye_wx]

I really have not disliked the dry and mild conditions over the last couple weeks.  It has allowed the street and sidewalk construction at the end of my street to be completed.  I live near the end of a dead end street.  They just installed a hammerhead turnaround, which will make it much easier for trucks to turn around, including snow plows.  There was a port-o-potty on my property, which was finally removed yesterday.

[A-L-E-K]

when us?

 

 

[Brian D]

January 15

1972: Cold air invades the region with a minimum temperature of -33 degrees F at Alexandria, -32 at Eau Claire, and -29 at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport.

[RogueWaves]

12 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

when us?

 

 

It's sick how much snow they're getting even Moscow has like 26" otg. And they have a slightly warmer climate than Detroit. Worst since 1970 per the news. 

[TheClimateChanger]

1 hour ago, RogueWaves said:

It's sick how much snow they're getting even Moscow has like 26" otg. And they have a slightly warmer climate than Detroit. Worst since 1970 per the news. 

Moscow is not warmer than Detroit. It is significantly colder, moreso in the summer but winters are colder too. The mean daily maximum in January is only 25.0F, which is less than the mean daily mean [average of max & min] for Detroit (25.8F), with the daily mean being 5F colder (20.8F). For the year, it's way colder. The normal annual mean is 3.6F colder than even Minneapolis. A normal year in Moscow (43.3F) is 0.7F colder than the coldest year ever recorded in Detroit (44.0F, in 1875).

The difference is greatest in the late summer. The normal August in Moscow is 2.2F colder than the record coldest August in Detroit (65.9F, 1915) and the normal September is a full 4F coldest than the record coldest in Detroit (57.4F, in 1918).

[A-L-E-K]

8 hours ago, RogueWaves said:

It's sick how much snow they're getting even Moscow has like 26" otg. And they have a slightly warmer climate than Detroit. Worst since 1970 per the news. 

yeah they're crushing it

[A-L-E-K]

On 1/13/2026 at 12:13 PM, Chicago Storm said:

so, where’s this east coast pattern some of you were whining about?

brutal L

[WestMichigan]

Ohio folks would like to see that map verify

[A-L-E-K]

just a little light trolling in the banter thread

hope that nonsense busts obv

[A-L-E-K]

best climo

 

 

[mimillman]

8 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

best climo

 

 

But then you have to live in Kamchatka

[A-L-E-K]

beats the UP

[DocATL]

Cold vodka, fresh seafood, cold vodka, fur caps, borscht, beef stroganoff, cold vodka. What’s the problem?


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[A-L-E-K]

would love to go if someone wants to fund my trip

 

[WestMichigan]

2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

best climo

 

 

Beavis approves of this climo

[Malacka11]

1 hour ago, DocATL said:

Cold vodka, fresh seafood, cold vodka, fur caps, borscht, beef stroganoff, cold vodka. What’s the problem?


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That all of us Y chromosome havers would have been drafted months ago

Still on the table ofc

[Brian D]

January 16

1921: Winds gusting up to 59 mph create a 'sand blizzard' across southwest Minnesota and a snowstorm across the north.

[Brian D]

On 1/14/2026 at 5:26 PM, Brian D said:

January 14

1981: Over 24,000 Canada Geese are present at Silver Lake in Rochester.

 

1952: A sleet and freezing rain storm develops across Minnesota from St Cloud south into Iowa. 1,100 Northwestern Bell telephone wires are knocked down. The Buffalo Ridge in the Pipestone area is the hardest hit with ¾ inches of solid ice on Northern State Power wires with icicles to 3 inches. Northwestern Bell reported ice up to 1 ½ inches on their wires in the same area. Thunder and a shower of ice pellets accompanied the storm in New Ulm and Mankato. Minneapolis General Hospital treated 81 people, victims of falls on icy streets.

Was just thinking....those poor fish getting carpet bombed by goose turds. 24k is a little much. 

[TheClimateChanger]

2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

beats the UP

Views like that, and snow like the above... count me in! 

[mimillman]

2 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

beats the UP

I have been, and it does not 

[hawkeye_wx]

Kamchatka would be an interesting place to live.  In addition to the extreme weather, it is also one of the most volcanically active places on Earth.

[DocATL]

That all of us Y chromosome havers would have been drafted months ago
Still on the table ofc

Well…there’s that.


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[A-L-E-K]

3 hours ago, mimillman said:

I have been, and it does not 

post the kamchatka pics dude

[mimillman]

9 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

post the kamchatka pics dude

I have to redownload Facebook…it was 2012 

[A-L-E-K]

yeah don't do that

[mimillman]

This is the Sea of Okhotsk in mid Feb 2012. I did my senior year of high school in Vladivostok and went up to Petropavlovsk for a a few days.

It’s pretty landscape but in general far eastern Russia is a depressing place lacking much modern infrastructure and kind of ignored by the federal government.

 

[A-L-E-K]

beavis would die^