Winter Thread 2015-16 (Northern Hemisphere) (climate, snow, average, Chicago)

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by muslim12

Please tell me you messed up and those are the lows not the highs.

lol. Nope. Was the max for that afternoon.

Originally Posted by muslim12

Just checked that model cambium. Very crazy some how the cold never truly makes it easy of the mountains.

Mountains and the fact that cold air and Arctic fronts don't easily push towards resistance of the Atlantic. Need to get those waters cooler first which they should be now.. maybe not.


Either way, should be interesting to see how cold this Arctic blast will be.


That's 3 now. LOL!

[Wildcat15]

SW winds are gusting up to 30mph out there. Added some resistance to my walk lol.

[Cambium]

Storm #1. Plains Blizzard. Feb 5th


I call this the NAM18z CK&CC. Central Kansas & Colorado Crush. 1-2 feet of snow.
Farmers love a deep snowpack!

[Cambium]

Storm #2. Feb 7-8


A Clipper that "MIGHT" merge with a coastal storm. Do they stay separate or dance together?!!! GFS & now Euro says they dance but the precip stays too far off shore.


NWS Boston has some questions..


NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1259 PM EST SAT JAN 30 2016

LATE WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND...

MODEL CONSENSUS IS CONVERGING UPON A POTENTIAL GLANCING BLOW TO S
NEW ENGLAND OF AN OFFSHORE LOW. H5 TROUGH DIGGING THROUGH THE CONUS
UNDERGOES A NEGATIVE TILT INVOKING CYCLOGENESIS AND AN INFLECTION
POINT LOW ALONG THE NOW OFFSHORE BAROCLINIC ZONE AND STALLED
FRONTAL BOUNDARY. BACKING TOWARDS LOWER HEIGHTS...THE LOW POTENTIALLY
COULD RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL EVENT FOR OUR AREA.

TIMING UNCERTAIN THOUGH IT APPEARS THE EURO IS CATCHING UP TO THE GFS.
SOME QUESTIONS LINGER:

* DOES THE MID TO UPPER LEVEL LOW CLOSE OFF? WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INITIAL AIRMASS IN PLACE?

* IS THE ISALLOBARIC-GRADIENT RESPONSE OF N-WINDS PERTURBED BY AN UPSTREAM SECONDARY LOW OVER THE GREAT LAKES?

* HOW DOES ONSHORE FLOW BECOME A FACTOR AND DOES IT RESULT IN MIXED- PRECIPITATION
POTENTIAL?

[Cambium]

Storm #3. Feb 9-11. Another big one?


GFS12z once again keeps it over land. Would mean Horrible flooding rainstorm for coast and Blizzard for interior down to Kentucky.





3 events worth watching in next 10 days.

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by srfoskey

Well, December was 12 degrees warmer than normal. I doubt February will be as anomalously cold as December was warm. The only extreme cold in the past two winters was the last two weeks of February 2015. While January and March 2014 were cold, they were nothing that unusual.

January-March the two past years were ridiculously cold. You couldnt even leave your apartment for like three months

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by tom77falcons

Cause you live in the most flawed climate system on earth: North America and its rotten worthless geography

Yeah the geography in North America sucks ass. Especially Hudson Bay which seems to be a favorite hangout spot for the polar vortex the past few years. Can we just drain the entire Bay please? The Spanishes drained Tenochtitlan in the 1500s with goddammned buckets, Im sure draining the Hudson Bay cant be that difficult with modern technology

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by Cambium

No Blizzard Storm thread?

Spring in the East, Blizzard in the plains. Lovely.

They dont have a map yet for totals for the plains and mid west. Kansas and Nebraska gonna get a dumping!

Its kinda cool how they get snow in Northern Mexico. Goes against all stereotypes

[muslim12]

Originally Posted by Warszawa

Yeah the geography in North America sucks ass. Especially Hudson Bay which seems to be a favorite hangout spot for the polar vortex the past few years. Can we just drain the entire Bay please? The Spanishes drained Tenochtitlan in the 1500s with goddammned buckets, Im sure draining the Hudson Bay cant be that difficult with modern technology

That would only make things worse. The area would become open land rather than water which moderates the cold temps.

[alex985]

Originally Posted by muslim12

That would only make things worse. The area would become open land rather than water which moderates the cold temps.

Hudson Bay doesn't moderate temps much. Especially considering that it's probably frozen over.