***Official 2022 Weather Thread***
- Thread starter wxman1
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I'm leaving this God forsaken place tomorrow morning for warmer pastures. It can be as cold as it wants here.
We got our first experience with higher energy rates when our January bill arrived this week. We used less energy than last January, and our bill was 2x the amount.
It is going to be very cold tonight but that is extremely click baity.
Here is my breakdown from MidAmerican for 32 leading up to 1/10/2022. Scared for next months bill.. (We switched from an electric range to a gas range last month as well)
The forecast for next week is highs in the teens and 20's with a chance of some decent snow in the middle of the week pretty much every where I check.
Tonight's gonna be damn cold though.
Note Hy-Vee is sponsoring the information.
This has always bothered me. If you go by the 10 day forecast you think 'okay, 22 for the low on Wednesday, I can send my daughter to the bus stop without her snow pants'. But if you click on the hourly you see that it will be -15 at 7 AM and cold as shite. Hell, it doesn't even get to 22 until 5 PM.
That's too bad. Would be cool to go visit the ice caves on Superior. Usually takes that type of weather to allow them to be explored.
Weather discussion from NWS:
"There is a pattern change in the offing however. After the last aforementioned weak front, our recent extended period of northwest flow will cease leading to short wave ridging Monday, and eventually a transition to southwest flow as a western CONUS trough matures. This will lead to the warmest temperatures we`ve seen for awhile, with highs into the 30s or 40s depending on location. The warm up won`t last long however with the long wave trough progression eventually pushing a front through the Midwest again. This will return colder air, mainly beyond the valid period into next week, but also return precip chances as kinematic and thermodynamic forcing both increase. Details on timing and NW to SE baroclinic zone position are unclear, but deterministic and ensemble solutions all suggest precip of some form returning sometime in the late Mon to Wed window."
I don't pretend to understand all that, but it sounds like a solid "maybe".