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Thanks for checking, but when it comes to precip, my backyard and BDR differ a lot. Dec 6th and 8th I had precip falling.
I'll try to do a graph soon, It gets tiring when its like every 2-5 days for months on end.
Dec 6th
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Originally Posted by Cambium
Yay! Started at 9:15... 30 minutes later got a few strong wind gusts and heavier snow burst..
Light coating on the walkway. No accumulation on the board yet. Close to 0.10" though
Loop last 4hrs. Check out SouthWest CT. Watch those blues get darker. 100% convinced the hills of Westchester, NY and CT is always enhancing precip around here..
Dec 8th
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Originally Posted by Cambium
Snow is falling here and NYC. 7th day with snow falling this year.
But just another day with a "TRACE" in the books.
Loop last 4 hours. Looks like its from Lake Ontario to the coast but reading the discussion this is what they had to say
This is called a "Pivot". It's what brings the most snows (or rain in todays case) to an area!
Loop is last 4hrs today. Focus on Southern NY, NW NJ, and in CT. Watch the moisture moving North then all of a sudden everything stops and starts moving Southeast/East. This is in response to the Upper Low catching up to the surface storm off the coast as well as everything pushing east.
While the storm is spinning Counter clockwise the force of the push east makes it pivot. Pretty cool to see yet so sad to see as rain in January.
Another day originally forecasted to be sunny ruined Hate living in the Great Lakes
My plan is to move out of this cloudy hellhole within 5 years. Ideally I’d move to the lower Midwest based on climate alone but who moves from Toronto to the lower Midwest? No offence to anyone currently living there. I’m looking at the Mid-Atlantic and the northern part of the south. Great weather except for the winters which are too mild, but 3 good seasons out of 4 isn’t bad. Good cities with jobs available. Mountains AND warm beaches within a days drive. Seriously underrated part of North America.
For cloudier climates in the Great Lakes, I much prefer the Lake Superior Snowbelt area of MI and WI. Even in complete blowtorch winters like this one, snow cover is consistent which makes the clouds easier to handle.
But, by overall/all-season standards it's decent weather, always happy to see cool/cloudy/damp days whenever I can get them, whether in July or January. Not ideal but I'll take it.
The Chicago weather seems to have extended also to Wisconsin and Minnesota, way above average according to this heat map in Green Bay (8°C), Madison (11°C) and Minneapolis (8°C). Sioux Falls is also at 8°C, so quite a remarkable day as far as normals go, but of course having nothing for record highs. Des Moines takes the price for the below -3°C mean humid continental locations though, at 14°C, with Omaha at 13°C.
Quick look at the consecutive days in my backyard which saw 0 (zero) precip falling.
Only twice for entire 2018 had 7 dry days in a row! Only twice with 5.
Precip pretty much fell every 1-4 days and is continuing in January now.
We haven't had a stretch of 4 dry days in a row since November 18-20!
I'm hoping for a year long drought soon!!
Want to trade summers? I hope you wouldn't mind!
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Hate living in the Great Lakes 
I hope you wouldn't mind!
