Skies still very overcast w temps in the 40s. Hoping for some sunshine today, but looks very limited.

Raining and 43 degrees! .14” so far on the day, 5.44” for the month.

Still many variables unknown here. Next week will be fun to track this major storm as models get a better handle on this.

Our sunsets that are earlier than the Winter Solstice have begun.

NOAA: Forecast data continues to show a very deep potential vorticity anomaly digging into the northern Ohio River Valley late Wednesday and Thursday aligned with very robust, cyclonically curved left exit region dynamics. An extremely impressive aspect about the forecasted environment and setup is the advertised conditional instability throughout the depth of the troposphere from 1.5 kft agl to the troposphere at 21.0 kft agl. Don`t see many soundings like this one. The net result is explosive spin-up cyclogenesis somewhere in the Great Lakes, Ohio River Valley, or eastern United States. Wavelength of the upper level trough is broad enough the best baroclinicity and geopotential height falls could occur to the south or east of Southeast Michigan. Many potential outcomes are on the table and refinements of the Wednesday/Thursday forecast will be required throughout the coming days.