Brian D Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 SN right now with massive flakes exceeding 2" at times. Golf ball flakes and lots of quarters under calm winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Daily dustings of snow the first 3 days of January (0.5, 0.3, 0.2). Went sledding with a nephew today, perfect winter day for it. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaves Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 2 hours ago, Brian D said: SN right now with massive flakes exceeding 2" at times. Golf ball flakes and lots of quarters under calm winds. Weird how a winter's pattern will get stuck on instant replay. I cannot break out of the pixie dust flakes and haven't seen what you've posted twice recently in so many years I don't even remember when. 11-29-11 were good sized flakes and I'd be willing to bet it has been that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, RogueWaves said: Weird how a winter's pattern will get stuck on instant replay. I cannot break out of the pixie dust flakes and haven't seen what you've posted twice recently in so many years I don't even remember when. 11-29-11 were good sized flakes and I'd be willing to bet it has been that long. Happened only once last year. This year is great. Normally don't see flakes this big all that often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 our boy josh really is the ultimate head for our subforum, absolutely savors every bit of snow he is given 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, A-L-E-K said: our boy josh really is the ultimate head for our subforum, absolutely savors every bit of snow he is given I had been promising my nephew to go sledding most of December but was always so busy with the Christmas stuff. Now January - March can really kick into high gear for winter fun. Locally, its been a good winter for cold and snowcover, just not big storms - the ground has been white since Thanksgiving weekend with the exception of Christmas week lol. Hoping after this weeks thaw winter really digs back in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 2.3" imby. Mammoth aggregate was such a bonus. Those flakes must have been cloud dancing before hitting the floor. Up N they got 6-10" in Cook county with 3-4" in N Lake/St. Louis County area. Had to look at CoCoRahs map to get totals. Usually they plot 1" or greater reports for sure, and some lesser ones, but a little behind this morning. Might be under staffed atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I guess I can’t complain yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Normal should catch us at ORD by the end of the month. Assuming we don't enter another favorable window. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Going to be a bit boring here with some rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 2 hours ago, Cary67 said: Normal should catch us at ORD by the end of the month. Assuming we don't enter another favorable window. while the gap may close, we will stay ahead of that pursuit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaves Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Nice little storm delivered 3.5" here over night making for a very snowy commute. Most of NMI is well AN in the snow fall dept. East side such as Alpena is just barely so due the lack of traditional storms bringing moisture up from the Gulf. Trails are excellent now that 99% of the tourists are back to work/school. Could've used this for the holidays but at least it wasn't another rain-off like last December 29th or the year prior with no snow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Lake ice as of yesterday. Generally new/thin ice with thin/medium thick in the bays. Thick ice in the N bays of L Superior. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 freezing rain/rain at Toronto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 11 hours ago, Brian D said: Lake ice as of yesterday. Generally new/thin ice with thin/medium thick in the bays. Thick ice in the N bays of L Superior. Just begging for an arctic outbreak to get the lake-effect machine going. Would do numbers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 I have Friday off. Why couldn't this system be about 6-7 hours slower? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoteSenses Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Warmth over the next few days will prob take out our very minor snowpack here (probably 2” of slush left). Guess I’m watching Saturdays system but it’s not looking like anything huge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 7 hours ago, RemoteSenses said: Warmth over the next few days will prob take out our very minor snowpack here (probably 2” of slush left). Guess I’m watching Saturdays system but it’s not looking like anything huge. Ours melted overnight. Down to 0 depth. Ive had 29 days of 1"+ snowcover to date. Nov 10-11 Nov 30-Dec 18 Dec 29-Jan 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 The fog has really held down our temp this week. Yesterday, mid to upper 40s turned into 30s. Today, it's in the upper 50s in Ottumwa, but we are still in the upper 30s. It is finally sunny, but there is not enough time left to heat up too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 17 hours ago, sbnwx85 said: Just begging for an arctic outbreak to get the lake-effect machine going. Would do numbers. Might get my wish in about a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Early data in for Dec. Little cooler this year akin to 2017. Annual is on the warmer side, but less so than the last 2 years. 5 & 10 yr tend charts shown respectively. BTW, have more data back to 1781. Just a reminder, pre-1850 is slim on data, so take it with a grain of salt. Trends are probably in the ballpark (as you will see in the next post), but individual years may be changed a lot when more data becomes available in the coming years (hopefully). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Here are the work ups I did a couple years ago comparing urban and suburb/rural updated to 2025. BTW, added extra years to CHI from wx data that is raw (1830-1872). It hasn't been through re-analysis like the early data for MSP (1820-1872). But thought it would be cool to see how it looks when graphed. IND & DET below as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 it has been warm lately.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Typical January thaw unfolding. Got up to 42 today with the snowpack down to 4” at the airport. This should be the warmest day in the foreseeable future. With a few thaws and a numerous smaller events so far this winter, there are multiple frozen compacted layers, this pack is melting much slower then if it was all from one storm. We’ve now had 1” or greater snowcover for 42 consecutive days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 23 minutes ago, OrdIowPitMsp said: Typical January thaw unfolding. Got up to 42 today with the snowpack down to 4” at the airport. This should be the warmest day in the foreseeable future. With a few thaws and a numerous smaller events so far this winter, there are multiple frozen compacted layers, this pack is melting much slower then if it was all from one storm. We’ve now had 1” or greater snowcover for 42 consecutive days. Nice. It's looked like November here for going on 3 weeks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 miss south Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 13 hours ago, sbnwx85 said: it has been warm lately.. Updated through today: The commentary on the original post is kind of funny. FFS, how much hotter do the Iowans want? Not every period needs to be record breaking, does it? Source: IEM :: 2026-01-07 Feature - Quite Warm Three Weeks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 3 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said: Updated through today: The commentary on the original post is kind of funny. FFS, how much hotter do the Iowans want? Not every period needs to be record breaking, does it? Source: IEM :: 2026-01-07 Feature - Quite Warm Three Weeks Looking at the numbers, map looks pretty accurate. For the period since December 15, Omaha had it warmest mean high temps (by more than 2F!). With Des Moines in 4th place by the same metric: Moline officially in 13th place by this metric, but 4 of those years predate the start date of IEM's analysis. So 9th warmest since 1893. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roardog Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 40 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: miss south Not too many posters have probably been paying attention to this storm but there has been a huge NW/stronger trend with this over the last few days. It doesn't mean much to most here but to see systems becoming stronger as they get closer in time instead of weaker like we've seen the last 10 years is different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Ready2rumble Spring vibes today 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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