Posted on 12/26/2007 7:01:53 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Madison, WI is on the verge of setting an all-time December snowfall record, and it could happen Friday.
With a forecast for up to nine inches of snow Friday, the record of 35 inches set in 2000 could be toppled by Friday night.
Anything over seven inches the rest of 2007 at Dane County Regional Airport will break the mark since the current snowfall total for December is right about 28 inches.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Friday for southern Wisconsin including Dane County because a low pressure system expected to develop in the southern Plains states Thursday night will track northeast into northern Indiana and lower Michigan Friday, putting Wisconsin in the path of the swath of heavy snow.
The localized Madison forecast issued at 6 a.m. this morning from the National Weather Service calls for 5-9 inches of snow Friday, with north winds of 9-15 mph.
Light snow is expected tonight, totaling maybe an inch, so anything over six inches Friday could produce a new snowfall record here.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday also have slight chances of snow, but New Year's Day is expected to be sunny.
That darn Global Warming again.................
Ain’t it just terrible about all that man-made global warming?
I guess Algore’s speaking in Wisconsin this weekend...
That’s all? Twenty-six inches is the average snowfall for December for Syracuse.
LOL! He must’ve been here every day so far this winter. And we’re only 5 days into it! Eeek! We’ve had nearly 30” so far. This is the worst winter for us since 2000.
I can take the snow, but hold the ice!
We haven’t had this much snow since 2000. You should see the Hippies scramblin’, slip-slidin’ in their Birkie sandals. ;)
Regions that get lake effect snow tend to get more. It is a little surprising since you think of Wisconsin as a big snow state, but they don't get dumped on with the huge snowfalls like lake effect regions do.
More populated places in lake effect snow areas get a lot of attention as well. You seldom hear about it in Michigan but all along Lake Michigan and much of lake Superior get a lot of snow.
Wrong. Ever been to the 'Snowbelt' (in northern Wisconsin/UP) in winter? I have many times skiing and the lake effect snow that comes off of Lake Superior is nothing like you've seen in your life.
Furthermore, Milwaukee is on Lake Michigan and we've had many huge lake effect snow storms. You just don't hear about it because we're not NYC or Boston.
I should have been more specific. Yes there are regions in Wisconsin that get pounded by lake effect, but not Madison.
It’s even funny to watch here. The first snowfall of the year and you’d think nobody has ever seen the stuff before. I always try to avoid driving the first couple snowfalls. It just isn’t worth it.
When we lived in the snowbelt, roof shoveling was a very popular sport. Usually happened about twice a year.
The worst month for snow I know of was Jan 2004. I was doing measuring for the NWS and we got a couple lake effect events and ended up with 11 FEET of snow, for the month. We had a state of emergency declared two weekends in a row and this in a town that didn’t break out the plows until there was at least 6 inches on the ground.
When you wanted to go anywhere, you just got in your vehicle and drove right through it.
The most I’ve ever seen was a snowfall rate of 5 inches an hour. You can’t even see across the street at that rate.
We moved. WHOOO HOOO!!!!
You know this means leftwing GW professors in Madison will be leaping from the roofs of dormitories into snowbanks.
did you live up in Syracuse? my husband is from up there and i told him, i would follow him anywhere but to that godforsaken barren tundra of hell on earth! LOL!
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