December 2016 Observations and Discussion

[Tom]

Already, my forecasts are calling for a good chance for snow on Wednesday and into Thursday. Advisory snows could be likely!

 

Whopping 1.3"! Nice refreshing coating that covered all the dead leaves that had blown off from the previous wetter snow system. Hope to squeeze another 3" tonight?

 

BTW: How much snow did ya pick up from yesterdays storm?! I came in with 4.8".

[Niko]

 

Already, my forecasts are calling for a good chance for snow on Wednesday and into Thursday. Advisory snows could be likely!

 

Whopping 1.3"! Nice refreshing coating that covered all the dead leaves that had blown off from the previous wetter snow system. Hope to squeeze another 3" tonight?

 

BTW: How much snow did ya pick up from yesterdays storm?! I came in with 4.8".

You might hit that goal tonight as per radar imagery, it looks like moisture is streaming in your way.

 

FYI: No mixing occur with this storm. I had all snow. The mix line stayed way far south from my area. Nothing better than to see snow after snow after snow pile up.

[Tom]

 

 

 

Already, my forecasts are calling for a good chance for snow on Wednesday and into Thursday. Advisory snows could be likely!

 

Whopping 1.3"! Nice refreshing coating that covered all the dead leaves that had blown off from the previous wetter snow system. Hope to squeeze another 3" tonight?

 

BTW: How much snow did ya pick up from yesterdays storm?! I came in with 4.8".

You might hit that goal tonight as per radar imagery, it looks like moisture is streaming in your way.

 

FYI: No mixing occur with this storm. I had all snow. The mix line stayed way far south from my area. Nothing better than to see snow after snow after snow pile up.

It's nice to keep stacking new snow on an already established snow cover. Hope the system Christmas weekend tracks to our south so we can have a white Christmas after this active snowy pattern we've been lucky to experience.

[Money]

12z Euro is a little bit north than 0z but still produces up to .5 QPF or so near Green Bay.

 

.2-.5 QPF from Milwaukee north 

[gosaints]

12z Euro is a little bit north than 0z but still produces up to .5 QPF or so near Green Bay.

.2-.5 QPF from Milwaukee north

How about in mn?

[Money]

How about in mn?

.2-.3 qpf for you

[Money]

Green Bay AFD said this clipper for Wed is much more compact and amplified than the past two systems

[gosaints]

Green Bay AFD said this clipper for Wed is much more compact and amplified than the past two systems

Ya gonna have to be in the right spot but.looks sort of dynamic

[Money]

Yeah they talked about a comma head pivoting through the area

[Tony]

Good luck to you guys across the border. Prime spot so far this winter

[Money]

18z GFS crushes the Madison area

[WBadgersW]

Yeah im just going to ignore the GFS for now...

[OKwx2k4]

When you wish the 18z GFS wasn't a fantasy model

 

 

Maybe SilverFallsAndrew brought some snow down to my area with him.

[OKwx2k4]

First snow in 2 seasons tonight. I like it. I could get used to it. Lol

[Andrew NE]

First snow in 2 seasons tonight. I like it. I could get used to it. Lol

Congrats man! Long overdue I'm sure.

[jaster220]

Congrats man! Long overdue I'm sure.

?? Someone who has it worse than you?? Oh my! Congrats Okwx24!

[winterfreak]

First decent snow in two D**n years around here.

[Tom]

00z GFS still showing the Clipper...most likely will start a thread tomorrow

[Money]

00z GFS still showing the Clipper...most likely will start a thread tomorrow

GGEM looks decent and a bit farther south

[Money]

GFS:

 

http://maps1.pivotalweather.com/maps/models/gfs/2016121800/108/snku_024h.us_mw.png

 

GGEM:

 

http://maps3.pivotalweather.com/maps/models/ggem/2016121800/108/snku_024h.us_mw.png

[OKwx2k4]

?? Someone who has it worse than you?? Oh my! Congrats Okwx24!

Lol. It only took the coldest December blast in 16 years to git er done but we got it done. :-) Not gonna gripe about a thing.... until next week. Lol.

[OKwx2k4]

The "Christmas Monster" of of Oklahoma storm is still alive on the 00z GFS. I'm kind of excited now.

[bud2380]

Euro has Christmas Day storm over the Midwest with heavy snows for a large swath from NE to MI

[OKwx2k4]

Ensemble mean through day 10. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here

 

 

 

 

GFS ensemble is even better. Will post if the look is still as awesome as today. It did very well with the current system from over 13 days away.

[winterfreak]

Storm still showing up for Christmas but temps look marginal. Looks like that's when the cold air starts to retreat for a while around here. Timing just isn't quite right.

[OKwx2k4]

Very impressive for my state in December.

[westMJim]

Getting moderate snow here now. Very large flakes with a temperature of 18°  As of yesterday GRR is now at 32.9” for December and now at 33.7” for this winter season.

[Tom]

Up to 17.7" at ORD officially for the season and we are half way through the month.  It looks beautiful outside with the freshly fallen snow and some minor snow drifts.  Morning sunrises this time of year with a glittering snow cover and a hot cup of coffee are the simple things in life that bring a smile to my face!    Do we set a new record at Soldier Field today???  2.5 hours till kick off time...gonna be close but the old record is 2F at kick off.

[VMB443]

[Tom]

The cold will make the Bears losing to the Packers that much harder on the fans in the stands

Game tix have tanked to $40-50...lol...you can get great seats for $100

[indianajohn]

I was at the coldest bears game. It was a Monday night game Bears were losing and we were about to leave when the Bears out of all the days decide to tie it and go into overtime. We timed how long our cup of beer would take to freeze... one minute and 28 seconds LOL!! I had layer upon layers on and I was still cold. There was a guy sitting next to us kind of laughing at us. He knew we made a rookie mistake the reason why we were cold even though we had layers of clothes on was that we were standing on solid concrete I looked over at him and he had brought a piece of cardboard to lay on the concrete and stand on that. He had a spare piece of cardboard he let us use man what a difference it made!!!! So this is my daily service announcement when going to a cold bears game bring a piece of cardboard to stand on!!!

[Tom]

Not much talk on here of the record cold hitting the Plains states and likely to push farther east later tonight...

 

[Tom]

North American snow cover has shot up to 1st place over the past decade!  Just as impressive, is the run from decade lows in early November.  We just surpassed 2013-14 highs for today's date.

 

 

http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/snow/plots/daily_snow_extent/multisensor_4km_na_snow_extent_by_year_graph.png

[Tom]

I'm impressed with the depth of the snow pack for the northern tier at this point in the cold season...usually something you see in January and not December...

 

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/snow_model/images/full/Upper_Midwest/nsm_depth/201612/nsm_depth_2016121805_Upper_Midwest.jpg

[OKwx2k4]

Wow. Broke today's records from 1983? Impressive. That's very very cold.

[gabel23]

I'm impressed with the depth of the snow pack for the northern tier at this point in the cold season...usually something you see in January and not December...

 

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/snow_model/images/full/Upper_Midwest/nsm_depth/201612/nsm_depth_2016121805_Upper_Midwest.jpg

That's a large swath of 10"+ snow depth..... I couldn't imagine some of the drifts after there two blizzards.

[jaster220]

Not much talk on here of the record cold hitting the Plains states and likely to push farther east later tonight...

 

Proof read alert!! 3 new "records" showing warmer than prior??? Huh??

[hlcater]

Proof read alert!! 3 new "records" showing warmer than prior??? Huh??

Maybe that's just all of the FSD reporting stations? That's what I'm going with, 

[Niko]

Brutal cold tonight IMBY with temps falling in the -10s territory.

[VMB443]

-8 here.