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Coming up...Next Storm... Screws Illinois and Indiana again Monday Jan 22nd.
Canadian is a bit further south with the track but this is what the GFS shows. Colorado to Wisconsin to Northern Quebec. Area I outlined looks like they could get a blizzard with this. No idea exactly who yet.
This storm drags a front across. Rain storm here Tuesday. So looks like I'm going over 2 weeks with a Bare/Brown/Green landscape.
Funny how areas of the south have more snow on ground than me for past 2 days. lol
Hmmm, Warm this weekend and Warm next weekend too?
Incredible difference just couple hours away. Have the lakes shut off now? Are they frozen over enough?
I wonder if the impressive January anomaly will hold. While I don't see any "torch" pattern I do see warmups which will eat into the anomaly but maybe not much. Your area has missed all the snow this season. Not sure if that will change now. Maybe. Still 2 mths left.
Lake Michigan is around 25% ice covered right now with all obviously concentrated along the coasts, especially between Milwaukee and Chicago and at the far north end. But the middle of the lake still has water temperatures in the upper 30s around 40F. They still had a lake effect snow band affecting northwest Indiana this past Monday. Usually its at its worst when winds come down from the north and create a long, powerful single band of snow down the length of the lake. It isn't near iced over enough to stop that.
Lake Michigan is around 25% ice covered right now with all obviously concentrated along the coasts, especially between Milwaukee and Chicago and at the far north end. But the middle of the lake still has water temperatures in the upper 30s around 40F. They still had a lake effect snow band affecting northwest Indiana this past Monday. Usually its at its worst when winds come down from the north and create a long, powerful single band of snow down the length of the lake. It isn't near iced over enough to stop that.
Even ice doesn't do a whole lot to stop the lake machine sometimes. For example, lake erie is nearly covered but Buffalo has had about 8" of new snow the past 36 hours.
Fairly extreme for 30 latitude north (Baton Rouge/Houston Hobby)
Extreme cold moderated a bit as it headed east. No teens here, just 20s.
Like clockwork.
Hobby's hourlies only show 20F at lowest. The 19F, if recorded, must have happened between observations. Areas of NOLA also saw 19F as well (i.e. Naval Air Station, and Audobon).
Central Florida got quite some cold as well, most intense since 2010-2011. Orlando, for instance, hit 27F.
Was a nice winter day today. Morning low around -8C, daytime max of 0C, a bit of snow on the ground, very clear and crisp. Not -40C as I would want, but a satisfying day nonetheless.
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