September 2022 Observations and Discussion

[hawkstwelve]

2 hours ago, CentralNebWeather said:

Looks like I had 8” in this storm. Don’t remember it. 

This made me take a look back on that month for Sioux Falls and although we only received an inch of snow on 9/28 we had an impressive week of much below normal temperatures. Departures were anywhere from -9 to -21 from 9/23-9/30 with a high of only 41 on 9/28. Downright chilly for September!

November of 1985 we scored 21 inches of snow which is 15 inches higher than normal with a high of only 3 degrees a couple days after Thanksgiving, which we celebrated with 9 inches of snow on the ground. In fact, every winter month that year had higher than average snow except February 1986 which came in with a paltry 0.9 inches. I'd still take a repeat of that season!

[Iceresistance]

The Cockroach Death Ridge is not going away from me anytime soon. The drought is getting worse :(

[mlgamer]

Here in Topeka we had more rain in May than all of June-September combined.

May: 11.68"

June - September: 9.54"

[Clinton]

3 hours ago, someweatherdude said:

I don't remember seeing a spot so close to KC that has literally no precipitation expected over a two week period.  And even KC itself is predicted to get almost nothing.  Other than the remnants of Ian, the entire country is looking dry. 

 

I'm very thankful we have a good well and watering system on the farm because we have very little running water in the creeks and our ponds are about 4 to 5 ft low.  Currently we are pumping water to 150 head of cattle.

[mlgamer]

6 hours ago, CentralNebWeather said:

Looks like I had 8” in this storm. Don’t remember it. 

Weather History Continued...I went digging through the records and found:

• Topeka had 2.07" of rain on Sep 28-29, 1985 (and no snow which would be expected)
• Had a front loaded winter: Nov-Dec: 9.1" total snow and only 1.5" the rest of the 85-86 winter.
• No measurable precip at all in Jan 1986.  Only traces of rain on Jan 18 and Jan 26.

 

[Clinton]

September will finish with great temperatures but it has been dry.

 

 

NWS Kansas City

September 2022 is going to finish as the 9th driest on the 135-year period of record for Kansas City with just 0.84" of precipitation. That is just 20.8% of the normal 4.04" amount for September

[westMJim]

Yesterday was a great late September day with an official H/L at Grand Rapids of 63/45. There was no rain fall and 84% of possible sunshine.  The grass dried out enough and I was able to cut the grass. And yes it was very long. The overnight low here in MBY was 41 and that is still the current temperature. For today the average H/L is now down to 68/48 the record high of 85 was set in 1922 and 1971 the record of 30 was set in 1993. The next several days look to be sunny and average to just a little below average with highs in the 60’s and lows in the upper 30’s to upper 40’s. At Grand Rapids September will end up very near average temperature wise much dryer than average. 

[Tom]

I put a reminder in my phone to test the Cicada Rule and a few of us on here heard them around July 8th (ish).  Well, let's put it to test bc if you take the 1st week of July as the start date that would make the 1st week of OCT as the First Frost.  Did any of you have Frost in IA this past week?  I know up in MN/WI it was common and there was spotty Frost the last couple nights in the far western burbs of N IL.

[OmahaSnowFan]

[Clinton]

KC climate summary for September. 

@NWSKansasCity

September 2022 temperatures for KC will finish at 2.8 degrees above normal for the month but only ranks as the 46th warmest Sept. on the 135-year record. Seems like it should be higher doesn't it?!?

[Iceresistance]

It's been extremely dry in the past several weeks. 

[Tom]

The last 2 weeks of SEP ended up a lot cooler over the GL's/MW than how we started off SEP...ORD ended up with a monthly temp departure of +1.1F as the overnight lows led to a higher mean.  Precip was just 1" BN (-0.99"), however, most of N IL did see a lot of rain.

 

[Clinton]

A more detailed look at September.  

 

[OttumwaSnomow]

20 hours ago, Tom said:

I put a reminder in my phone to test the Cicada Rule and a few of us on here heard them around July 8th (ish).  Well, let's put it to test bc if you take the 1st week of July as the start date that would make the 1st week of OCT as the First Frost.  Did any of you have Frost in IA this past week?  I know up in MN/WI it was common and there was spotty Frost the last couple nights in the far western burbs of N IL.

Tom, I had  mid 30s 4 straight  mornings. On thurs am i saw some definite killing frost  in some valleys  here in the Ottumwa  Iowa area..

[Tom]

12 minutes ago, OttumwaSnomow said:

Tom, I had  mid 30s 4 straight  mornings. On thurs am i saw some definite killing frost  in some valleys  here in the Ottumwa  Iowa area..

Wow, I didn't realize that it got that chilly this past week in IA.  Has biz picked up since the recent rains?  Hope all is well for you...enjoy the nice weather this weekend!

[james1976]

On 9/30/2022 at 11:03 AM, Tom said:

I put a reminder in my phone to test the Cicada Rule and a few of us on here heard them around July 8th (ish).  Well, let's put it to test bc if you take the 1st week of July as the start date that would make the 1st week of OCT as the First Frost.  Did any of you have Frost in IA this past week?  I know up in MN/WI it was common and there was spotty Frost the last couple nights in the far western burbs of N IL.

Yup I can't remember which day it was last week but Waterloo got down to 31.