March 2026 General Discussion

[frostfern]

Anyone else notice the large gravity wave rolls on GRR radar?  It’s weird.  There are strong gusts penetrating down into the cold air!

[Torchageddon]

Getting the worst lightning storm (frequent, prolific) I've experienced so early currently, just incredible. Its 4C and dropping, DP of 3C. 200+ strikes in 40 mins. 10mm in less than a hr I still have 5-8 inches snow on most grass with large snow piles. I don't know if its Mar 11 or the 12th but 14 years ago about this time I got one of my only severe t-storms since 2010 which crazily may be the only other frequent lightning event so early (kicked off the great March heatwave). I had sizable hail during that one, no hail in this ongoing storm.

[A-L-E-K]

another quality soak, soils nice and wet heading into leaf out

[Brian D]

Another 1.7" of snow in the books. And tomorrow night could be another 6+" along the shore here.

[SchaumburgStormer]

11 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Everything's gone all around us this evening.  Fine with me, don't want any hail damage lol.

EDIT:  Finished with 0.01" of rain for the day.

Same here, had severe hail both north and south of mby. Granted 1” hail seems insignificant after watching videos of grapefruit in Kankakee 

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Eyeballing around an inch 

[SchaumburgStormer]

Actually ripping snow outside right now. Best event in months 

[cyclone77]

2 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Actually ripping snow outside right now. Best event in months 

Yeah had a few large wet flakes mix in here too under a brief bright band.  Changed back to very light rain shortly after. Still top 3 event in past 2 months.

[TheClimateChanger]

Some good news. Hopefully, with lake ice coverage well below historical averages, we'll see somewhat less of a lake influence on spring temperatures this year. *Fingers crossed*

[McHenrySnow]

[BeastFromTheEast]

14 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said:

Some nice flake size. Nice little burst 

[McHenrySnow]

Just now, BeastFromTheEast said:

Some nice flake size. Nice little burst 

Some of the best flakes I've seen all winter, hands down. At least March won't go down snowless....

[Cary67]

Dusting part 10 

[A-L-E-K]

nice clumping aggregates for sure

[Brian D]

Weekly ice for March 9. Been a decent ice season. This is only the 2nd week that ice was below avg, and that being driven by much lower ice on L Superior. 

[michsnowfreak]

Totally random, but sooo many people (myself included) have sinus infections. My moms doctor actually said she thinks one of the factors is bacteria released in the air when the snow melted started a big wave of those infections.

Speaking of snow, the fact that a near-winterlong snowblanket protected the ground from much frost damage will combine with the heavy rain this past week to help the grass greenup quickly. You can already see some green emerging.

[cmillzz]

50 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Totally random, but sooo many people (myself included) have sinus infections. My moms doctor actually said she thinks one of the factors is bacteria released in the air when the snow melted started a big wave of those infections.

Speaking of snow, the fact that a near-winterlong snowblanket protected the ground from much frost damage will combine with the heavy rain this past week to help the grass greenup quickly. You can already see some green emerging.

Would explain why I’ve been so extremely congested for the past week. Just chalked it up to allergies, but normally symptoms aren’t this severe for me.

[michsnowfreak]

13 minutes ago, cmillzz said:

Would explain why I’ve been so extremely congested for the past week. Just chalked it up to allergies, but normally symptoms aren’t this severe for me.

Yup. I didnt go to the doctor, i did a telehealth for an antibiotic, but my mom went and said her dr wore a mask and usually doesn't. Its all over.

[Chicago Storm]

ORD had a high temp of 73° on March 9th, which broke the record high max temp for the date of 69° (2021/1974).

ORD received 1.02" of precip on March 10th, which broke the record precip total for the date of 0.87" (2013).

[DocATL]

Yup. I didnt go to the doctor, i did a telehealth for an antibiotic, but my mom went and said her dr wore a mask and usually doesn't. Its all over.

Flu B is rampant right now as well. Can present with milder symptoms than flu A and sometimes feels like a sinus infection.


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[cyclone77]

Picked up an additional 0.02" today.  Brings the 2-day total up to 0.03" and a T of snow.