0.86" of rain yesterday in Marion. Glad the sun is back out to charge my weather station back up.
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A week out still but looks like some snow might be coming next Sunday. Higher accumulation the further East you go.
Forecast looks like it’s going to change. Going to have significant cold and snow by next weekend. Looks like highs in single digits.
Ice fisherman with these complete 180s in conditions week to week so far:
Just need some snow after the big cold blast for snowmobile travel on the big lakes up north.
My balls disappeared after just seeing that.
I think the snowmobile businesses in the WI north woods have had a few rough years.
Iirc some are adjusting with more early spring buggy/atv rental type of stuff.
I've been watching a YouTube video where they are saying the projection models are calling for about 7 inches of total snow fall in central Iowa Jan 5-10. Worse yet, looking for 30-40 below zero wind chills around Jan 10 and it looks like it could last several days. Hope it changes before then.
Damn, glad I am going to miss that, we are heading for the Caribbean on the 4th.
I think I remember that day. We were just back from Christmas break at ISU, Iowa State canceled classes for the first time ever.
Just for that, your steps will now be iced for when you come home.
Ever….I remember classes canceled in 90 or 91. Had a cheap ticket to AC/DC and passed on it to do an English paper (so 90 it was) and never did the paper but was saved by the cancellation.
The one they are referencing above, it was bitterly cold the weekend before the start of class, my car was unreliable and I remember snow blowing across the road the whole way down on Sunday at the end of break thinking I was probably going to freeze to death if I had car trouble, but I made it. The next morning the bathroom water pipes on our house were frozen. Hadn't learned to let them drip a little. Got up to get ready for class and they canceled it. IIRC they gave us the next day also. I remember it being a big deal, people were like whoa ISU never cancels class.
EDIT: 1/18/1994 (first day of second semester) high temperature in Ames was -9, low was -21. The AC/DC concert was Dec. 4, 1990 in Hilton. It wasn't real cold but the night before Ames got 9 inches of snow.
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/ames/year-1994
Ames Weather in 1990
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