Winter Thread 2017-18 (Northern Hemisphere) (snowfall, hottest, warmest, records)

[speagles84]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Only snowing for 1.5hrs and already almost 2 inches. Places in PA picked up 4-6" already so I'm expecting that here since I'm in that purple banding. Sticking to everything. Winter is back!





3:30-7:30pm loop.

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Nice! I got about 3.1" of snow, starting to slow down now, nice little dose of winter

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by speagles84

Nice! I got about 3.1" of snow, starting to slow down now, nice little dose of winter

Incredible snow rates going on. Another 1.9" past hour. 4.5" and counting still.


Doing a little shoveling. This stuff is so heavy. No wind at all but it's cascading off the trees from the weight.

[Cambium]

10pm. Another inch an hour.
1.0" new snow melted to 0.11" liquid.

5.5" total 0.50" qpf. Still coming down. Temp steady at 33°. No wind at all.




Lots of weight on there.

[nei]

Nice! That's a lot of wet snow, I should go outside before going to be bed and check what it's like. I think midnight will be the strongest.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by nei

Nice! That's a lot of wet snow, I should go outside before going to be bed and check what it's like. I think midnight will be the strongest.

crazy snow rates. 1-2" per hour for 4 hrs now.


11pm. 1.1" new snow past 1 hr again melted to 0.11" qpf.


6.6" total. 0.61"qpf


Still snowing

[Crunch41]

Nunavut has had some extremely cold weather lately.

Kugaaruk hit -51.8C/-61F yesterday. That's an record low for them, the previous record was -51.5C in 1989.
Daily data from Ogimet. Another site

Several places are showing wind chills below -60C/-76F today. The lowest today was -68C/-90F in Baker Lake...the temperature was -45.3C/-50F and the wind speed 39kph/24mph. Their record low wind chill is -71.5C/-97F so it's extremely cold even for them. Daily Data for Baker Lake.

Current conditions in Nunavut, updated every hour. The warmest spot right now is Alert, oddly enough. Current temperature/wind/wind chills:
Name..............Metric.............Imperial
Alert.............. -22.3/12/-31......-8/ 7/-24
Arviat............ -43.1/33/-64.....-46/21/-83
Baker Lake...... -42.1/40/-64....-44/25/-83
Chesterfield Inlet -43.8/26/-63..-47/16/-81
Ennadai Lake... -40.5/34/-60.....-41/21/-76
Rankin Inlet......-44.7/25/63......-48/16/-81

[Cambium]

7:30-11:30pm loop.


Pink icons indicates Heavy Snow reports. 5-7" in southern NY and SW CT..


I don't see any reports coming from Long Island. Might not be sticking much?

[chicagogeorge]

Originally Posted by Cambium

7:30-11:30pm loop.


Pink icons indicates Heavy Snow reports. 5-7" in southern NY and SW CT..


I don't see any reports coming from Long Island. Might not be sticking much?

Nice!


March will be interesting


https://twitter.com/jhomenuk/status/965220050557906944


Low to mid 60s and rain for us Mon-Tues


https://twitter.com/NWSChicago/statu...85105042878464

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by Cambium

7:30-11:30pm loop.


Pink icons indicates Heavy Snow reports. 5-7" in southern NY and SW CT..


I don't see any reports coming from Long Island. Might not be sticking much?

Wow, Harrisburg, York and Lancaster just got dry-slotted.

[ral31]

The latest GFS model run for Wednesday at 18z.





Heavy storms along the frontal boundary with flood threat.