Be safe driving in northern Iowa tonight. Roads are starting to drift a little. I-35 included. 1/4 mile visibility
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Here's a cool visualization combining snow plow locations, road conditions, and the radar from Wednesday to today.
2009 we got about 8 inches of snow in early December and it didn't melt until March.
You must be a young buck then.
2009 in Iowa was ridiculous. We got like a foot of snow in late November and it didn't melt the entire winter if I remember right. It's what I imagine living in northern Minnesota or Wisconsin is like.
I remember attending my wife's Gma's funeral before Thanksgiving sometime in the mid 2000s (sorry don't remember exact year) and temps were below zero. We stayed in the crappy Super 8 in Story City and I had the heater cranked all the way and the room was still cold.
Yeah, this. That winter sucked so bad. We shattered the record that year with consecutive days with snow cover. Winter of 2000-01 and 2013-14 were brutal from start to finish too.
Correct. On Dec 8th 2009 a blizzard dumped almost 16 inches on Des Moines with wind chills in the 30 below range. That storm dumped it's heaviest in central and south central.
And a little over two weeks later on the 24-25th of December another storm hit Iowa with the heaviest this time in NW Iowa where Spencer received 2 feet of snow.
I think that was the year we had mountains and mountains of snow piled up beside the streets, then the calendar flipped to March 1 and suddenly we had 40+ degrees every day for like two weeks, and just like that it was gone.
I rate annual snowfalls by the tanks of my snowblower gas. Most years one gets me thru or maybe one plus. Pretty sure that year was 5-6 tanks.
Yeah pretty sure northern WI will get a dusting almost every night throughout the winter. Super deep snow.
Reports are already 8ish inches of ice on lakes that won't be gone until mid-May.
I like winter but get rid of the snow by March.
On Thursday when it's 50-something, we're all going to be ******** about the brutal state of the roads.
Think that was Dead week and school got cancelled. Roads were still awful driving home whenever we did. We and several others going very slowly spun around getting onto 20 from 35. Was fine from there though. Think it was a few weeks later in January that it was bitterly cold. Eyelashes froze together on the walk from Swine to Design. Longer walk than the 10 min before frostbite the news was talking about.
Eta that walk would have been Jan 2009.
Makes sense since I recall 2008 and 2010 as bad flooding years in the spring?
2019 it snowed before Thanksgiving also and highs were in the single digits for a few days.
The winter of 2018 and last winter I think temps were actually colder then they were last week. I remember a couple days where it was closer to -20 than -10 like last week.
I think you just have recency bias since this winter has been pretty tame up until last week.
I live behind a small apartment complex, there is only an alley between us. Go out to push snow this afternoon and see that all of their snow is pushed into my yard. WTF. If we have a warm spring, there is going to be a **** ton of water in my basement.