Is we back? February discussion thread

[Kitz Craver]

25 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

This week coming up definitely looks cooler here vs how it looked a week ago, but literally 200 miles SW of us may be tanning. It’s real close. 

Let’s keep that little cold pool above NE as long as we can. It’s been pretty resilient 

[beavis1729]

7 hours ago, mreaves said:

I think 81-82 might be the best winter I clearly remember.  We seemed to get a couple of small snowfalls a week punctuated by somewhat regular larger storms.  At one point, our nearly 4' tall electric fence was buried.  

The winter of 1981-82 was legendary in many parts of the Midwest. I had just moved to the Chicago suburbs at age 7, so unfortunately I don't remember it.

It's probably the benchmark winter for MSP. 3"+ of snow cover for 130 consecutive days, from 11/19 through 3/28. Dec had a -5F departure from current normals. Jan was a -14F departure, including 7 mins in the -20s. Feb had a -5F departure, and Mar -4F. Record depth 38" on Jan 23rd after back-to-back 17" snowstorms. 

Strangely enough, November was very mild until the 19th, then the bottom fell out and the fun began. 

Also, Chicago hit -26F on 1/10, 2nd coldest on record, and also hit -25F on 1/16 and -23F on 1/17.  I think the -40C H85 isotherm showed up in the lower 48 that January, which is incredibly rare. INL hit -45F on 1/17, and had an average daily low temp of -23F in Jan 1982. That's unbelievable. And INL had 148 consecutive days of 1"+ snow cover, from 11/25 through 4/21. Then, 3 days later, it hit 82F on 4/24, as if to say "ok, we're done with winter now".  

Fun times...

[tavwtby]

1 hour ago, beavis1729 said:

The winter of 1981-82 was legendary in many parts of the Midwest. I had just moved to the Chicago suburbs at age 7, so unfortunately I don't remember it.

It's probably the benchmark winter for MSP. 3"+ of snow cover for 130 consecutive days, from 11/19 through 3/28. Dec had a -5F departure from current normals. Jan was a -14F departure, including 7 mins in the -20s. Feb had a -5F departure, and Mar -4F. Record depth 38" on Jan 23rd after back-to-back 17" snowstorms. 

Strangely enough, November was very mild until the 19th, then the bottom fell out and the fun began. 

Also, Chicago hit -26F on 1/10, 2nd coldest on record, and also hit -25F on 1/16 and -23F on 1/17.  I think the -40C H85 isotherm showed up in the lower 48 that January, which is incredibly rare. INL hit -45F on 1/17, and had an average daily low temp of -23F in Jan 1982. That's unbelievable. And INL had 148 consecutive days of 1"+ snow cover, from 11/25 through 4/21. Then, 3 days later, it hit 82F on 4/24, as if to say "ok, we're done with winter now".  

Fun times...

wasn't that cold spell that the "freezer bowl" was played in, in Cincinnati? I remember that winter being really cold, but don't remember a lot of snow until April vacation from school when we got a good 12-18"...

[tamarack]

14 minutes ago, tavwtby said:

wasn't that cold spell that the "freezer bowl" was played in, in Cincinnati? I remember that winter being really cold, but don't remember a lot of snow until April vacation from school when we got a good 12-18"...

Might've been 1985.  There was a giant Arctic high that encompassed nearly the whole country.  Fort Kent, where we lived then, was at the east edge of the high and avoided record cold but never warmed up - January never got above 22F, but the coldest was a modest -23.  Only the very AN Jan 1983 failed to get colder.  In the other 8 winters we lived there, January's bottoms ranged from -30 to -47.
1981-82 had 185.8" total snowfall but had only 2 events with 12"+, 15.5" in Dec 19-20 and 17" in the April blizzard.  January's coldest that year was -34 on the 18th, which came with winds 25-35 (WCI -101 on the old chart, about -70 in the new) and visibility of 3 miles in very light snow.  Got all the way up to -14 that afternoon.  Northern Maine can't compete with northern MN, but Jan '82's temp was 9/-12, only Jan 1994 was colder.  (We'd moved to southern Maine in late 1985, and '94 there was quite cold, too.)

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Gotta go out further....it's in clown range but the OP tried to get us to 70F around 2/26 or so. 

 

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Got to keep ACATT straight. 

You serious Clark? Shit Scooter we need a new term for you. 

Every six hours I change my mind. 

E6HICMM

Lol at op plus ten temp but that's not what you said 

After any snow the euro op puts Tip in front of Fox Hall in a Speedo.

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Who cares?? None of that necessarily means extreme cold 

So a 498 TPV would not cause extreme cold. You forget the past but that's ok

[beavis1729]

35 minutes ago, tavwtby said:

wasn't that cold spell that the "freezer bowl" was played in, in Cincinnati? I remember that winter being really cold, but don't remember a lot of snow until April vacation from school when we got a good 12-18"...

Yeah, the game was on 1/10/82, temp -9F with 30 mph winds. 

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

This week coming up definitely looks cooler here vs how it looked a week ago, but literally 200 miles SW of us may be tanning. It’s real close. 

Wild? Shit WTTY over and over. Almost time for you to be glued.

[MJO812]

Gfs ticking north 

[DavisStraight]

5 minutes ago, beavis1729 said:

Yeah, the game was on 1/10/82, temp -9F with 30 mph winds. 

Boomer Esiason was QB that game, I remember warm ups showing the temp and winds, sucks to play in that weather, worse than the Green Bay ice bowl.

[MJO812]

The more north this comes the south the boundary gets for the next storms.

[CoastalWx]

28 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

 

You serious Clark? Shit Scooter we need a new term for you. 

Every six hours I change my mind. 

E6HICMM

Lol at op plus ten temp but that's not what you said 

After any snow the euro op puts Tip in front of Fox Hall in a Speedo.

Did you not see Will‘s post?

[tavwtby]

24 minutes ago, beavis1729 said:

Yeah, the game was on 1/10/82, temp -9F with 30 mph winds. 

yeah I remember watching that game, a week after San Diego played in Miami in one of the best games I ever saw, to go from Miami to that must have been crazy.

[tavwtby]

19 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

Boomer Esiason was QB that game, I remember warm ups showing the temp and winds, sucks to play in that weather, worse than the Green Bay ice bowl.

I think Ken Anderson was QB then.

[ineedsnow]

7 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

The more north this comes the south the boundary gets for the next storms.

We trend! 

[WeatherGeek2025]

i'm back and we snow

[ORH_wxman]

The funny part about @ineedsnow still tracking the 2/16 storm is that his location is probably one of the least likely to see anything from it in SNE. 

 

I love the dedication though. 

[NeonPeon]

Substantially more interesting the more West you go along the coast.

[Damage In Tolland]

If folks south of 90 can score 1-3 that’s a win 

[Ginx snewx]

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Did you not see Will‘s post?

Did you not say after any snow? But now cuz Will said oh after day11. You made the post speedo boy. Wolfie is on to something 

[ineedsnow]

2 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

The funny part about @ineedsnow still tracking the 2/16 storm is that his location is probably one of the least likely to see anything from it in SNE. 

 

I love the dedication though. 

Lol thanks!  GEFS north a bit

[The 4 Seasons]

Just now, ineedsnow said:

Lol thanks!  GEFS north a bit

it wont die!

[ineedsnow]

Just now, The 4 Seasons said:

it wont die!

 

[SouthCoastMA]

Trending to a cocktease. need to make at least 2-3 more jumps at 0/6/12z

[brooklynwx99]

10 hours ago, qg_omega said:

One of the worst performances from our "highest skill" model at under 120hrs out

lol hold that thought

[ineedsnow]

Phase that northern stream in a bit more and    that's the main reason I've been watching this.. should be mostly onshore at 12z tomorrow 

 

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

That is a snowy op run.

[ineedsnow]

[Ginx snewx]

1 minute ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

That is a snowy op run.

Parade 

[ineedsnow]

18z CMC and RGEM bring some snow Monday from the northern stream disturbance