***Official 2023 Weather Thread***

[nfrine]

Well with Valentine's Day and all that excitement, getting an extra inch is perfectly normal.

You are well named...

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

Shouldn't be a problem!

Travel likely not going to be advised Thursday afternoon?

 

[exCYtable]

3-5 is much more reasonable. 8-9 just sets expectations way too high.

Understatement of the year

 

[Trice]

Shift south, please.

 

[exCYtable]

Shift south, please.

Get the bread! Get the milk! It's happening! Just need Frankie to weigh in now.

 

[Donqluione]

I would accept 69.

Even though it's supposed to be wet and heavy?

 

[nfrine]

Get the bread! Get the milk! It's happening! Just need Frankie to weigh in now.

 

[alarson]

Even though it's supposed to be wet and heavy?

 

[snowcraig2.0]

Even though it's supposed to be wet and heavy?

Supposed to be plenty of blowing according to the forecast.

 

[cycloner29]

Excellent humble brag. Well done!

Well 55 degrees NW wind at 30-40 mph when I got here. Water temp at pool and ocean 62. Not my ideal way to spend someplace warm. Figures, the day I leave it’s 85 sunny and SE winds at 25 mph. FML!!

 

[Cy Hard]

Supposed to be plenty of blowing according to the forecast.

Tell that to my wife, she never listens to the forecast!

 

[mynameisjonas]

Travel likely not going to be advised Thursday afternoon?

Looks like your weed smoking might get delayed.

 

[BCClone]

Even though it's supposed to be wet and heavy?

The first yes, the second is a maybe.

 

[2122]

Pretty unusual, had an all day mid-February soaker here just north of the Iowa line in MN. Got 7/10 inch and still coming down pretty hard. Here's a map that'll tell you roughly (based on radar, not gauges, but tends to be reasonably accurate) how much you got: https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours

 

[Pope]

Watching lightning in Ankeny tonight, and expecting several inches of snow tomorrow/Thursday. Crazy.

 

[NWICY]

But also might be a bit underdone across the board. Euro ensemble average in DSM at 8 to 9, short range ensemble average 8 to 9. GFS ensemble is the low baller right now in 3 to 5.

I'm probably leaning over on the NWS forecast, and watch area at the moment.

Convection and storms SE could also muck things up and drag it lower, so I can understand a path to lower as well, but that's my first gut impression this afternoon. Seems like some 8 or 9 areas still possible.

50th percentile forecast from WPC has DSM at 6 to 8, so I do feel like we're still a touch low, even though we're probably going over top of NWS DMX for the moment.

Hey the next time you guys are hiring can you hire that intern KCCI had from OU meteorology I think 2 summers ago. Her weather skills were underappreciated on 8.3 or wherever they put her.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

 

[JP4CY]

Wow

 

[wxman1]

 

[jmb]

Tell that to my wife, she never listens to the forecast!

Request/beg/pleading isn't a forecast.