Golfing, then plowing
January 9th, 2012 at 12:06 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
Sunrise at Wall Lake (click the link to enlarge) from Lisa on ReportIt. Took a time out to move the water cooler in the studio, which is leaking. Snow and slick roads starting at some point Thurs. PM and continuing thru Friday. The NAM is already in. It says 40 tomorrow and near 50 on Wednesday, snow starts at some point Thursday PM. Temperatures late Thurs. evening may be 25 degrees colder than late Weds. afternoon. There will be lake-effect snow. I can’t say how much yet (wind direction will determine where the heaviest snow will be), but we could see an extended period of snow with everyone seeing the ground turn white and the heaviest spot (not general) with 6″+. It’s not impossible the heaviest snow bands will produce a foot of snow at one location somewhere in W. Michigan (probably best chance north of Cadillac), as we had happen with the last cold outbreak. The GFS might give G.R. 3″ of snow, the European around 5″…too early to say. Clouds overhead early afternoon will push east late this PM and evening. Full moon out again tonight. WOW! Look at the snow in Cordoba, Alaska – 18 feet of snow, 14-foot drifts, buildings collapsed, National Guard called out! Valdez AK had another 15.2″ of snow on Sunday. They are up to 81″ of snow on the ground (that’s nearly 7 feet on the level!). it was 52 below zero in Bettles this morning and 54 below at Selewik. Fairbanks may set a record for most consecutive days with snowfall. More heavy snow fell around Anchorage (28″ on the ground there). The Arctic icecap is significantly bigger than one year ago (now about one standard deviation from average). The Antarctic icecap remains significantly bigger than average and is also significantly bigger than one year ago. Note the ice in the Bering Sea is much more extensive than average. The average temperature in Nome AK for Jan. 1-8 was -27.3. That’s 33.2 degrees colder than average! Nome was 3 degrees colder than average in December and 9.2 degrees colder than average in November. Barrow, at the northern tip of Alaska is 2.7 degrees colder than average for January, which should be their 3rd consecutive month with colder than average temperatures. Anchorage, on the south coast was 15.2 degrees colder than average for the first 8 days of January. Resolute in far NW Canada reports an average temperature for Jan. 1-8 of -26.6. There’s plenty of cold air up north. The question is…does any of it ever get to the Great Lakes. Also, a volcano has created a new island in the Red Sea.
Well if we don’t get much snow then I hope we get more rain in the Spring and Summer to make up for it.
We have La Nina this year. We had La Nina last year and got 7.18″ of precipitation in G.R. in April 2010 and 4.54″ in May 2010.
Bill get ready West Michigan may have snow on the ground for over a week coming up….. INDYYYYY
WOW! The 00z now shows a small low developing and HEAVY lake effect snow. Could be interesting!
could just be a blimpish but that would be intersting
It could be but if it stays like that.. Get the snow blowers ready.
also notice how are southern stream system has trended more north> let’s see what the EURO does
Bill your 8 day show’s a high of 15 next Tuesday …BRING ON THE COLD!! INDYY
Bill do you think once the polar jet dips south of us it stays south of us for a while?
don’t look now but are southern stream system has made it’s way up to southern Ohio and last night it was in southern Ten. The next GRR DIS should be interesting
WOW! Have a peek at this
http://wxcaster4.com/gfs/CONUS2_GFS0P5_SFC_ACCUM-SNOW_120HR.gif
sweet- I can’t wait to see what GRR say’s
The rift volcano in the Red Sea is interesting…
A rift volcano is actually a long crack where basalt magma is ejected.
I’ll bet the noise of the steam explosions can be heard for a long ways
For all the mass uplifted by a rift volcano something has to go down in a nearby subduction zone.
That makes 4 rift eruptions since the solar activity increased! (Iceland, Hawaii, Central Africa, and now the Red Sea) The convection currents under the earths crust are definitely getting more active.
I hope it is clear the next time we have Northern Lights.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/09/alaska-town-digging-its-way-out-after-record-18-feet-of-snow/?hpt=hp_c2
This is about that town in Alaska that got 18 feet of snow….man in a way I wish that would happen here – or similar, maybe not THAT much snow, but how about 3 feet all at once!