Chris's Corner - Bitter Cold and Some Snow

[Chris Higgins]

Driveway still very icy, deck is melting steadily. Im showing 33 now.

[ElKay23 - Columbia, IL]

I just saw a bluejay peck at a dead mouse I threw out there and then fly off with it. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

[amstilost]

Walked outside driveway and sidewalk are just absolutely horribly slick. The key is to walk on the grass and in the rocks. I'm not going to bother with salt because of the short-term of it. Still sitting at 30° 7 miles west of DeSoto. No rain at the moment, but I did notice the top of the barbecue is completely clear of any ice. Solar insolation at its best. I'm seeing drops of water roll off the deck railing so the sun's doing its part there too and on the tin roof over the screened back porch, Water is dripping off it but still have some pretty decent icicles hanging there.

[Chris Higgins]

Checkbyour thermometers to be sure they are clear of ice. I've seen ice/snow covered thermometers give flasely cold readings when they are ice or snow covered.

I have no doubt some are still below freezing over the eastern ozarks, but temps are starting to move upwards a little more now.

[Labrat-O'Fallon IL]

Doggo found out real fast the deck and stairs had ice. One fast trip down and she has learned how to navigate it. I was called by the doctor's office this morning, and she said none of them made it in and they will call back tomorrow when they have their computers. Lol. I got to sleep in, so that was a win-win.

[let it snow11]

I'm up to 35° now. Icicles that were hanging from my eaves 30 minutes ago are now gone.

3 miles north of Bonne Terre.

[Snowstorm920]

Up to 35° now

Let the thawing commence

[seyahmit]

My Ambient is starting to thaw out in O'Fallon, MO. Reading 32.5 and now starting to register precipitation.

[Snowman99]

Fantastic forecast Chris in a very complicated situation.

[let it snow11]

Looking at the radar loop, it appears a train of rain is headed this way for the afternoon and evening. Welcome precipitation, and it's nice to hear my heater kicking off rather than run almost constantly. Sure I'm hoping for more snow this winter, but a break from the deep freeze is welcome to these old bones. The big chill only gave me 4 or five nuisance dusting to half inch snows anyway. I'd rather have 25° and a deep blanket of snow.

I agree with Snowman, you handled this complex mess very well Chris!

[bfsmith81]

32F in Edwardsville... starting to see a lot of melting occurring, managed to skate out to the car to throw something in the trunk and when i -gently- closed the trunk all the ice busted off of it so no longer sticking.

[amstilost]

Came up from downstairs and seen your post Chris. My remote is protected so maybe it just happened to stop working. It has a low of 30 overnight and it's still sitting at 30. There's a graveyard of icicles underneath the barbecue and all the icicles are gone looking at the outbuilding. Very light rain falling again.

[BRTNWXMAN]

Temp up to 31* in Brighton and the ice is starting to loose it's bond to the pavement.

This is a good example of why you really can't trust model outputs in these types of situations...most of the FRAM forecasts were significantly overcooked

[ndolan387]

I was at 32* for awhile, 33* degrees now in Northern Wildwood. Trees have also had/have a good coating on them!

[Snowstorm920]

And now back to our regularly scheduled winter programming

[chowderhead54]

Jan 22, 2024 12:45:33 GMT -6 Snowstorm920 said:

And now back to our regularly scheduled winter programming

The big question is will it flip the other way 🤔 mid month..if not Let's move on..after this non-snow..at least note worthy snow with beautiful Arctic 😉 cold, I'll move on to Golf, and baseball weather!! Just No 80's and above in late February or March..let's have 60's and 70's..and dry...yea right lol!!

[John G -west belleville]

32.7

Seems that untreated surfaces are starting to thaw.

Warmest cold rain I've ever experienced

[BRTNWXMAN]

M0.20" glaze in Brighton

[WEAXWATCHER]

37 here. Just about everything is melted.

[maddogchief]

Jan 22, 2024 12:45:33 GMT -6 Snowstorm920 said:

And now back to our regularly scheduled winter programming

Well, though I see some warming, the teleconnections are all trending normal to colder pattern at the turn of the month.

[Chris Higgins]

Jan 22, 2024 12:28:02 GMT -6 BRTNWXMAN said:

Temp up to 31* in Brighton and the ice is starting to loose it's bond to the pavement.

This is a good example of why you really can't trust model outputs in these types of situations...most of the FRAM forecasts were significantly overcooked

But still better than qpf based ice products. That's why there is still a need for human forecasters!

[Chris Higgins]

Just ventured out to Chesterfield Valley...no ice. There might be a little in some of the parking lots, but everything my wheels touched was just wet.

[guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters]

35⁰ for the last couple of hours. North facing driveway and sidewalk are still ice covered. Street is looking pretty clear; mostly dry.

[Sparkman - Wildwood, Mo]

Jan 22, 2024 13:47:48 GMT -6 Chris Higgins said:

Just ventured out to Chesterfield Valley...no ice. There might be a little in some of the parking lots, but everything my wheels touched was just wet.

Great forecast and good messaging on this. Bad morning commute but no severe ice storm.

[lunchladyd]

Still sitting at 33 here. The The snow on the gravel drive didn't thaw out before the freezing rain came, so it is a sheet of ice. Walking through the yard is slushy snowy ice. But it is north facing. Deck has thawed. Dad about 5 minutes from me has some small trees in front yard that broke from the heavy ice.

[cozpregon]

Data, summary map. Click on the state of MO. Pavement temps

wxde.fhwa.dot.gov/?org.apache.catalina.filters.CSRF_NONCE=522E2C86158312A15E723BA24D40ADA6

[BRTNWXMAN]

Still a touch below freezing in Brighton and there seems to be more ice in the trees than earlier. The temp rise seems to have stalled a bit here.

[chowderhead54]

Jan 22, 2024 13:09:59 GMT -6 maddogchief said:

Jan 22, 2024 12:45:33 GMT -6 Snowstorm920 said:

And now back to our regularly scheduled winter programming

Well, though I see some warming, the teleconnections are all trending normal to colder pattern at the turn of the month.

I sure hope so!! Otherwise..bring on Spring..looking at Radar tons of moisture straight from the gulf, from the tx/la coast just pushing due north...if only enough cold air was around...IT WAS! But this was not..usually the way..

[ndolan387]

Jan 22, 2024 15:46:37 GMT -6 BRTNWXMAN said:

Still a touch below freezing in Brighton and there seems to be more ice in the trees than earlier. The temp rise seems to have stalled a bit here.

You are starting to probably see heavier precip. There's more heavier banding coming your way. You may end up being one of the winners for this ice system lol. I would think that you will rise above 32* in the next hour or two.

[Lovableweatherguy TROY,MO]

Ok now that I've had time to go outside and look around. We have a nice thick glaze on everything here in Troy. I need to take a ruler and measure.

So pretty, yet very eerie. Beings back some memories from 2006 a bit. Although no power issues like it was then.