snowiest. winter. EVER!

[PurdueWx80]

The weather is really awesome outside this morning. I went for a walk with my camera and I couldn't believe 1. how hard it is snowing and 2. how windy it is. I'm in a suburb about a half mile south of the Milwaukee city line and about 6 blocks from Lake Michigan. The wind coming off the lake is very strong! I heard just a minute ago on the news that we could see snowfall rates of two inches an hour today and I believe it.

I have no idea how much to expect we'll get through tonight though. Everyone has a different answer. Some say totals of 3-5, or 4-9, or 10-16 so who knows. If it keeps snowing like it is now though, I bet it will be high. We are closing in on the third highest seasonal snowfall total for Milwaukee since records began.

the 10-16" looks best to me.

[CajunMama]

Oh my! Y'all are talking snow and i'm outside working in my flowerbeds with temps in the low 70's!

[tidesong]

I can't believe it, but it looks like we missed the 100" mark here in Madison!

[PurdueWx80]

I can't believe it, but it looks like we missed the 100" mark here in Madison!

d'oh! we got 7.6", which puts our seasonal total at 99.6". ugh. we should exceed 100 by the end of the week, if not tomorrow.

[tidesong]

No! I refuse to believe we're going to get more snow! Hehe. Ah, well. It's my dad's fault, you see. When we broke the record earlier, he said, "Okay, Mother Nature, if you're gonna do it, at least do it right!"

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

WOW give me some of that snow in florida! That must be insane that much
surplus snow!!!

[tidesong]

Well, we got it. I am SO DONE with snow now.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
730 PM CDT SUN MAR 23 2008

...MADISON WINTER SEASONAL SNOWFALL EXCEEDS THE CENTURY MARK...

SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS MOVED THROUGH SOUTHERN WISCONSIN THIS
AFTERNOON...GIVING THE DANE COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT IN MADISON 0.4
INCHES OF SNOW AS OF 7PM.

THIS PUSHED THE SNOWFALL TOTAL FOR THE 2007-2008 WINTER SEASON TO
100.1 INCHES. THIS SHATTERS THE OLD RECORD OF 76.1 INCHES DURING
THE 1978-79 WINTER SEASON.

[PurdueWx80]

got a little more, to bring the total to 100.4".

more (perhaps much more) is on the way thursday and again friday.

[arizonasooner]

So much for global warming, huh?

It was a slow winter, snow-wise in Tulsa.

Multiple snow events (6 plus), but none that really accumulated to much.... (As compared to last year's two or three events that totaled about 18" plus, which is lots for us here down south)

Here's the worst of it this year, a week or two ago:


Nothin', really. But better than the worst winter at one of my common worksites (below)...


(Extra points for anyone who can identify the location of the pic above).

Nonetheless, I am still ready for spring!

[Ed Mahmoud]

OK, if the GFS 288 forecasts had been correct just three or four times, we could have had our snowiest winter ever.



Looks like the window for snow is almost closed here, but mid-November is less than eight months away!

[Extremeweatherguy]

It looks like Madison will be adding a little bit more to their snow total tonight into tomorrow.

[Aquawind]

There have been some impressive snows in the northland this April. Not to worry the ice will be off the lakes and everything will come alive soon.