February 2016 Observations and Discussion

[OKwx2k4]

My friends, all I know is that I should've spent this weekend at a cabin on a lake nearby. This weather is crazy!

[Money]

Funny how snowlover disappears after he owes me $25

[Tom]

My friends, all I know is that I should've spent this weekend at a cabin on a lake nearby. This weather is crazy!

You better check-in to the storm thread!  Euro Op/Para are trending towards a wintry solution in your neck of the woods.

[CentralNebWeather]

66 degrees heading for 72. Bastardi keeps saying stormy March. We'll see.

[gosaints]

60 in la crosse. Record

[CentralNebWeather]

Right now 72. Feels and looks like spring. A couple of snow drifts left and some dwindling piles that will be gone early next week.

[Hawkeye]

After underperforming the models during the last warmup, Iowa easily overperformed today.  The Euro had about 60 here with only low 60s from central to sw Iowa.  Instead, we are 64(new record) while central to sw Iowa is in the low 70s.

 

I just got home from spotter training and, boy, is it nice.

[NEJeremy]

75 here today which I believe either breaks or ties the record which initially they said would be safe today. Beautiful day!

[jcwxguy]

Least 76 here today

[westMJim]

What a warm late February day! I have a current temp here at my house of 62° and while a much cooler 54° is being reported at GRR that 54° none the less ties the record high for February 27^th here in Grand Rapids last set in 1998. And the 11” of snow I had earlier in week is now all gone except for the snow piles. 

[Geos]

Made it to 60 degrees before the clouds rolled in. Been a breezy day as well. Tomorrow 50 degrees and the next day may not crack 30 degrees.

[Niko]

Today was beautiful. A lot of snow melted as well which caused some minor flooding around my area. Topped out at 63F. Felt great!!

 

I guess the clam before the storm?!

[WBadgersW]

Hit a high of 60° today and now it is snowing

[Tom]

I heard ORD set a new record of 62F today and broke a 121 year old record (1895).  This day last year ORD set a record low...what a difference a year makes.

[Snowshoe]

Record high of 59 on Saturday smashed the previous record 49 set in 1932. 

 

CITY                 HIGH TEMP          RECORD         YEAR

 

APPLETON               52(T)              52          1998

RHINELANDER            52(T)              52          1932

STURGEON BAY           50                 47          1929

WAUSAU                 55                 47          2000

WISCONSIN RAPIDS       59                 49          1932

 

Sunday was a nice warm day as well. High of 50 early before the cold front came through. Great day of ice fishing and ice baseball.

 

 

[Tom]

 

Record high of 59 on Saturday smashed the previous record 49 set in 1932. 

 

CITY                 HIGH TEMP          RECORD         YEAR

 

APPLETON               52(T)              52          1998

RHINELANDER            52(T)              52          1932

STURGEON BAY           50                 47          1929

WAUSAU                 55                 47          2000

WISCONSIN RAPIDS       59                 49          1932

 

Sunday was a nice warm day as well. High of 50 early before the cold front came through. Great day of ice fishing and ice baseball.

 

Nice young large mouth bass!  How thick is the ice up there???

[Tom]

Went ahead and started a March discussion on this last day of Feb...Leap Day...

[Geos]

Great ice fishing pics Snowshoe. Your son looks happy with his catch.

 

You wouldn't catch me on the ice in 50s though! lol

 

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[Snowshoe]

Nice young large mouth bass!  How thick is the ice up there???

 

18" of clear solid ice and another couple inches of refrozen snowmelt. More than enough for trucks.

[Tom]

Another record breaker here in PHX...88F....one more possible We'd (90F). Thankfully, a big pattern change next week and more storms start targeting there west/southwest which will usher in seasonal temps and rain with mtn snow!

[CentralNebWeather]

February 29th and it is raining here in Holdrege with a temperature of 40. Smells like spring. Honestly unless there is a big storm left I am ready to move on from this poor winter (besides 1 blizzard) which almost made up for this winter. Almost.

[Geos]

Going to end up with about 7" on the nose for snowfall this month. Way lower than past February's.

[NEJeremy]

What a horrible month of February here if you're a winter fan. We averaged 6.1 degrees above normal and after the Groundhog's Day blizzard which was a pretty big disappointment here anyway, we only had another inch of snow the whole month. To top it off it was windy as hell most of this month. We had 3 days with wind gusts over 50 mph, and another 4 days over 40 mph wind gusts. I ran some numbers and the peak wind gusts this month averaged nearly 31 mph! There were still plenty of cool days too so that wind made those days miserable.

[Geos]

February ended up being +1.4°. If those two 60° days wouldn't have occurred it would have ended up near normal.

 

The winter overall was +3.66°. January ended up being the coldest at -0.13°. December was +9.68°.

[Tom]

Geo's, should we fire up a Spring/Summer Outlook???  Signs pointing towards a very active Spring and potentially hot summer for most of the subforum.

[NEJeremy]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/weather/february-warmest-ever-month/index.html