Snow!

It’s going to snow!!!!! Red alert!!!!

 

Ok, not really. We might get an inch or two Friday night into Saturday. This definitely doesn’t qualify as severe/disruptive, but I’m super bored with the weather around here lately so I had to send something.

 

The details for this storm are not impressive. A legit winter storm will affect the St. Louis area, but it will peter out and stay well south of Chicago before regathering some strength along the East Coast.

 

Still, we could have some slow roads and minor air travel delays late Friday night into Saturday.

• Downstate and areas well south I-80 could get 3+ inches.
• Most of Cook/Dupage will see 1-2 inches, if that.
• Parts of the city and northern suburbs might see a light accumulation or nothing at all.

 

 

 

And yes, this winter has been exceptionally quiet. After a crazy November – the post-Thanksgiving storm was among the top three craziest winter storms I’ve ever experienced here – and a week or two of legit cold, everything went very mild and very quiet. This is right up there among the “warmest” and least-snowy six-week winter periods on record.

• Yesterday marked the first below-normal temperature day in a month, breaking a string that began on December 11^th.
• The snow drought has been pretty incredible. At just 1.6” this is the fourth-least snow we’ve ever had from Dec. 1 to Jan. 9.
  • November was so crazy – 12.7” officially, including the fifth-highest single storm snowfall total ever recorded in November  – that we’re still running ahead of the normal season-to-date pace despite receiving so little in December and January.
  • I don’t know if November has ever been the snowiest month of a winter season, but 12.7” is above average for any month so we have a chance of doing it this year. I doubt that has ever happened and I’ll try to find out.
• There is no significant, sustained cold weather or any major storms on the 10-day horizon

 

As a side note, time flies.

• We’re a month past the earliest sunset, 2 ½ weeks past the solstice, and almost a week past the latest sunrise.
• We’re adding well over a minute of daylight per day, and two weeks from now we’ll be adding more than two minutes per day.
• The coldest week, on average, is next week.
• We’re almost at the halfway mark for accumulating snowfall. (Snow is also back-weighted in the season, and once we get to late February and March the snow that does fall tends to melt pretty quickly unlike the snow that falls in December/January and lasts for weeks.)

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