Timmy Supercell

35 minutes ago, OttumwaSnomow said:

Got exactly  1 inch this am.  44.2" for the season.  Crazy to think that despite  the extremely  warm winter mby is clearly  above average snowfall.

March 2022 had a mean above average but still featured a nice mid-month snowstorm for us.

Not quite as warm as Dec 2021 though, that was a weird one. 

Under a Winter Weather Advisory which will be in effect 1 hour from now. 1-3" (not sure how much I'll get)

So far it's been a dull February but with some chilly mornings I guess. We haven't had fog in quite some time. 

The doldrums are back..

Corn Pop was one baad dood.

6 minutes ago, Doinko said:

Multiple cold waves into the middle of the country. 

 

Rollercoaster for KY..

Another t'storm this morning in Ashland! Not nearly as much lightning as the one in late January but its something. 

54 degrees, drippy and spring birds chirping! 

I noticed another Tornado Warned cell near Little Rock, AR earlier this evening. There have been quite a few near there lately.

9 hours ago, jaster220 said:

I've had bee infestations twice at 2 different homes. German Hornets in the ceiling rafters right above the Master bed and they broke a 4" hole, fell through and swarmed the house. Fortunately NOT when we were asleep. We came home one evening and as we entered from the garage we saw a few flying (it was night so they were not too active - another lucky strike). But it was a Sunday night and only one pest control outfit would even answer the phone. They were not the Pros, not insured, and left us a mess but they fought it out and at least we got our house back. Found dead ones in every corner of closets for a couple years after. And that was the easy one, lol.

At the Marshall home, regular yellow jackets built a nest in the kitchen wall and after it got large enough, they started coming into the house and flying around. Cabinets and our fridge along that wall made it very difficult to see how exactly they were entering. Wasn't excited about having to rip cabinets off the wall to find the hole either. I moved the fridge and found no opening, so figured it must be under the rear of the cabinets - uggh. Try living without a usable kitchen, see how long that works out. Decided to move the fridge for another look in desperation and when I did there was half a bee head squashed between the linoleum and the bottom of the trim. Apparently, when the fridge was in place, the weight pushed down on the flooring just enough to allow to crawl through and take flight. Probably had swatted about 800 dead by this point and the wife was at her end. Had set off bug bombs and such but it wouldn't last, just kill the current batch. This was Sept 2014 and it was very mild and they were crazy active. After I calked that area, we were finally done with bees in the house. Final step was a can of regular bee spray, with a long enough length of tube from the hardware store, and after dark I shoved the hose in the opening by the sill outside where they were flying into and emptied the can as directed. Then used that expanding spray foam in a can along about 10 feet where the siding met the foundation (pre-Civil War home here). Took about 3 weeks to gain victory. One of the worst home-owner experiences ever. Good luck with your situation. Sounds like you have a handle on it, and some good advice regarding the "dust".

Man, that sounds like it was a total nightmare to go though. Thankfully I'm spotting this in the winter time, before it potentially worsens. We have actually just recently been making trips into our attic to put away Christmas decorations and nothing has attacked us so far in there. I believe for now this is a more localized population on the side of the house and they're just trying to shelter from the cold. But any nest can be a bad one. We will definitely do more maintenance through the year. 

Just now, Slushy Inch said:

You mean veggie burgers? What is worm spaghetti?

Just a jab towards the idea certain rich people have on using alternative proteins.

If we don't start eating bug burgers and worm spaghetti the weather will get worse. 

24 minutes ago, Phil said:

Oh yeah, March is a bonafide winter month in these parts. More so than December.

Btw post-niño springs are really good for thunderstorms on your side of the apps. I believe you’re in for the best convective season since you moved out there, by a significant margin.

I hope late summer doesn't crud out though, Aug 2022 was solid for lightning events, though marginally less rainfall than July of that year. 

Parts of early Fall was nice last year, but September was too dry for my liking. We had a nice severe potential in the first week of August, then storm activity came to a complete halt. 

1 minute ago, Phil said:

I’ll be shocked if you don’t see snow this month.

2/15 - 3/15 could be the best snow pattern since 2016. But that doesn’t preclude bad luck.

March can certainly deliver, my single largest snow event in the last few years occurred in middle of March in 2022. 

False Spring is here. I had my first 60 degree day of the year on Sunday, upper 50's yesterday and low 50's today. Going to warm back up a few degrees towards the weekend.

And that's not all, somewhere inside the walls of my home there are these red wasps that made the place their home. On just about a daily basis I've had to vacuum a wasp in the early evening in my room, and I believe I have narrowed an exact location they're poking through (kind of on the side of the attic door). Can't really afford exterminators at the moment, so I am for now DIY sealing a couple of openings with my own materials and taping up the areas. lol

I read some wasps are strong enough to eat through duct tape but I am confident these aren't those kinds.. 

Just now, Phil said:

Man that February sun is getting strong. Can comfortably wear short sleeves w/ temps in the low 40s now.

Having another mild February. these red wasps have been making daily visits in the house. 

Snowless Feb #3 unless it changes late month.

If February is worth anything in the Ohio Valley, it'll be my first one to feature any real snowfall. Not to say I haven't had a wet one though, Feb 2022 did feature some isolated flooding in the CWA.

Forgot to post this around the time it was happening. We had a thunderstorm late two nights ago, between 11:40pm to 12:20am. First one of 2024!

The cool days are back, for now its not looking like any snow in the near future. Perhaps a dusting here and there but I'm focused on the measurable stuff. 

Picked up another 3" today in Ashland! Surrounding reports are higher. Various locations of 5-6" (and higher) in West Virginia. Closer to my location, Cattletsburg had a report of 4.5" which is in the same county as here. I'll have to do some more digging, couldn't find Ashland anywhere in the last 50 reports that NWS keeps on their quick LSR page. 

Getting close to half our annual snowfall already, if February gets one or two more of these types of snows we should be ok on snow. 

1 minute ago, Phil said:

Dangit, today’s high of 34°F screwed up what would’ve been a 7-8 day stretch of subfreezing temperatures. Haven’t pulled that off since 2018.

My longest was 10 days in Dec 2013 in Klamath Falls

4 minutes ago, KTPmidMO said:

So is this saying temps may not stay warm for very long or the warmer temps will be colder than possibly forecast?

A warm up is still coming, just goes back to chilly around the beginning of February I assume. 

11 hours ago, Clinton said:

Looks like starting next week we are headed for a little January thaw.  AO, NAO, and EPO all headed positive for awhile along with the MJO headed into some very favorable phases for warm weather.

 

The CPC forecast 

 

If we can manage at least a normal January on mean temperature that's not bad, I'll take some rain after this.

Probably some occasional severe t'storm chances later this month.

A little on the chilly side of things! We had a low of 1 this morning, and some feel-like temps around -5!

Waiting on the 6-hour minimum to be stated, but on the 5 minute observations there were several readings of 1.
I figure it checks out. 

16 and light snow. Been snowing for most of this last 24 hours in a row, which is not bad for around here.

For a brief moment the snow flakes were larger right before posting. Now back to flurry size.

I guess we ended up with a decent amount of snow, just took a while to get to higher amounts.

2-3" in the city, sounds like more a bit outside of Ashland city limits. This is a chilly snow too, its in the teens out and snow is falling. Most of the snow I've experienced is between a temperature of 28-35 degrees.

I woke up to my first measurable snow this morning. It's baby steps though. I'll get pictures when a bigger storm arrives.

It's cold however!

7 minutes ago, the_convergence_zone said:

Here’s some pics from Milwaukee this morning at my parents’ house. This storm was about 15 inches on top of 5 from earlier in the week. Power has been off and on for the past day. A pretty good one for Wisconsin standards. 
 

14.4 F for a low here this morning, you all know I’m in a very warm microclimate within Seattle so that is impressive to say the least. 

I've yet to total more than a dusting since the start of winter at my place.