Dallas beats Chicago for first snow of the season; record snowless streak in Chicago
It's been a bad year for building snowmen in Chicago. It last snowed in Chicago on March 4, 2012, and Chicago has now gone 281 days in a row without snow, its longest such streak on record. Weather records for Chicago date back to 1871. Dallas, Texas had its first snow of the season yesterday, picking up 0.1". This is only the second time on record that Dallas has had an earlier first snow than Chicago. The only other time this has happened was in 1951, when Dallas received 0.6" on November 2, and Chicago had 4.4" on November 3.
With accumulating snow looking highly unlikely through at least December 14, Chicago's record for latest accumulating snow of the season may also fall. The average date for Chicago's first measurable snowfall is November 16, and the latest first snow of the season on record occurred on December 16, 1965. Rain mixed with snow is expected this weekend on the 15th and 16th, but the precipitation may fall entirely as rain. The lack of snow in Chicago this year is reflective of both how warm and dry it's been. The 25.20" of rain Chicago has received so far in 2012 is more than 10" below average, and the city experienced its 10th driest January - November period on record. Record warmth in early December brought Chicago only its 3rd 70°F December day on December 3.
Jeff Masters
Chicago Skyline Architecture at Sunset from John Hancock Building of Trump & Willis (Sears) Towers32 (
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NK would have to buy the paint bucket. They can just pull the brick from someone's house.
And Florida on Wednesday? Maybe?
Maybe they used a coconut. But I dont think they grow that far north...
I know right lol
did the drainage systems work alright or is there flooding today?
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;) throwing stones I see...
are you wxchaser97? or Grovysixer
and for those of yall stacking your underground busses with supplies, Happy 12/12/12..DOOM!!
LOL Thanks for the laugh!
Most of it fell along the immediate coast just north of Juno Beach, where drainage and infiltration happen quickly, due to the sand dune geology. US1 was flooded and cars were left stranded for some time last night.
Areas inland that rely on canal networks with mucky flat soils flooded more with less rainfall, some homes were damaged. Some residential streets were still impassable this morning, inland Jupiter.
I don't know the rules to that tetris game, but I so want to play...
(interesting, never heard of bufkit before!)
Or Equatorial type climes like Ireland....LOL
Yes! laugh now, cry later, LOL!
For the record, I have a banana tree here in Iceland, along with a bunch of other tropicals.
Indoors, mind you ;) But yes, there are plants like that growing this far north. And I know from the experience of others that it's even possible to grow palms outdoors in colder weather than ours. The trick is, come winter, bundle them up into a spire, wrap the spire in incandescent christmas lights, then wrap the whole thing (lights and all) in insulation.
On a much easier front, I've been thinking about, if I have a spare banana pup or similar come next summer, hiking it and a bag of soil up to the top of a mountain or onto a glacier or such and planting it there for a few months (while the weather is warm enough not to kill it) to confuse the utter heck out of hikers.
Just candle light bags floating in the air...
dunno. I was wondering the same thing.
I hope its nothing bad cuz when i went to plus your comment i hit the minus key by accident
Yep seem to be...
I minused it too. Ya know, for science.
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The hike to plant the tree/seedling/whatever would be well worth it for the confusion it would sow. (pun intended)
Someone floated one of those by an LSU football night game back when John Ferguson was on radio. I think Walter Hill scoped it out with his binoculars, but it had people wondering.
These parameters look more impressive than a "see text".
Just sayin...
Here it comes, Largo and it looks big!
we're in the same general area, Jedkins. What do you think we are gonna get? Some excitement?
12z GFS
I agree this looks interesting!!
lol feels like its August here.....
my compass is starting to switch directions it's heading south when facing north. what does that mean?? each day it's slowly changing...
you rock!
I hope so! We need the rain really bad. The frontal convection doesn't look that impressive, yet, but the upper level energy inducing the rainfall to the west is still further west of the front, once it crosses the front into the warm sector with the deeper moisture and higher instability we may see the line become more impressive.
We can't count on it though, so far Monday actually had the most impressive weather when it wasn't predicted, the models completely screwed up across the board with yesterdays forecast so we'll see how they do today. The models are even somewhat wrong today, at least with timing, most of the models I saw showed the rainfall already crossing our area by now, with more overcast conditions and more stability. It is more unstable in the eastern gulf than it was forecast to be thanks to full or mostly full sun so far today.
With the lack of model confidence, I'm not fully sure what to expect. However, it at least looks like we should see a good round of rain and storms for everyone later.
CAPE is climbing and climbing...
Means the compass needs replacing
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thanks so much for that.
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