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I could cry. It may snow in San Antonio tonight. It was almost 80 on Sunday. It's been freezing cold all week. The good news is that by Sunday, it will be back up to the mid-60s, but I will cry if I see snow on the ground in the morning.

I hate and envy you

 

It truly sucks for me to live in Wisconsin since i despise both fall and winter. I'd seriously be willing to consider letting someone cut off say my pinkie finger with a pair of garden shears if i could live in a place like San Diego if my daughter, family, and friends were there also.

 

 

Then I won't tell you that after waking up yesterday to really cold temps and snow and ice, it is 64 right now and I am about to fire up the grill to throw some chicken on. Although we may possibly get more snow next week. I'll believe it when I see it!

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The south is overrated. I could sit here now bragging about how nice the weather is, but honestly it is still too warm for comfort about 1/3 of the time, even in the middle of winter. The summer here is essentially a reverse winter--5 months of obnoxiously hot and humid weather--dew points in the 70s to even over 80 at times--to warm to do anything outside without being uncomfortable. That doesn't even mention the inevitable hurricane that will eventually wipe Miami off the map--as much as I love hurricanes I would not desire a direct hit. So there's really only a slight advantage weather-wise in that we don't have to drive in snow. Then there's the traffic and the rude/selfish/arrogant people that live down here. I really like graduate school and doing research and I'm glad I took the risk to come down here, but we will never complain about the cold again when we inevitably move back somewhere colder.
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I'd prefer a southern California or the southwest to the deep south because i don't care for extreme humidity either.

 

That said, with my growing hatred for winter especially, i've no longer complained when it gets hot here in Milwaukee, even if it's 90 and humid. I'll turn on a fan and feel happier than if it's 8 degrees and/or snowing like crazy.

 

When my mother lived in Arizona for about 8-9 years, man did i love visiting her around October and November. To wake up and have it be 85-90 each day, sun shining, and with no humidity instead of in the 20's here and dreary gray, it was bliss for me. It was then painful to come back home to no warm sun, knowing that the hell of a long freezing winter is right around the corner, and also knowing that it will be another 6-7 months before hot sunny weather arrived here in Wisconsin. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif

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Seems like a mess in WI. I was out on a camping trip this weekend and I haven't looked at all at this system. The forecast says 2-5" this evening into tonight. The long range is for above-normal temperatures early this week and then a cooling trend towards the weekend.
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Looks like all rain for Milwaukee. Snow possible in central WI. The jet stream is already in the spring pattern--not sure if it will shift back but winter is over for now.
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Looks like all snow in Wausau. Maybe a little mixy for a few hours if some warm air wraps in. This storm has the look of a 4-8" type event but it will be like most March snowstorms--wet and heavy.

 

Yikes...the thought of snow seems so far away now...good luck with up and down Wisconsin spring ;-)

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How much snow/mixed crap are we looking at for the Wausau area, and when will it hit?

 

I can't find this stuff anywhere else!

WAOW (Channel 9, Wausau) is good.

 

I've been subscribed to their personal forecast feature for several years. You can set preferences to receive e-mails when significant weather is about to occur, and the personal page is more informative than the standard one.

 

You don't need to log in to access your personal page. The link provided in their alert e-mails will bring you to your current "personal" forecast. Bookmarking the link doesn't bypass the need to log in, so I generally save one e-mail from them to be able to conveniently read the page.

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Im in Eau Claire. The Channel #13 TV tower fellover...It is (was) 2,000 feet tall.

 

In the last 24 hours, we have had rain, sleet, ice pellets, heavy snow, 20-30 MPH winds and now rivers that are near the flood stage.

 

I expect to see Jesus by suppertime.

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This post is dedicated to craigharmann, with his San Antonio forecasted high of 86 & sunshine this afternoon. Pitchleague too, though he actually misses this crap! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

Here's the storm just getting started yesterday afternoon:

 

http://i.imgur.com/vT3hG.jpg

 

 

And here are some shots I just took:

 

http://i.imgur.com/nCTvG.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/Y0Q91.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/Zmnyg.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/7C6DK.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/cKBNj.jpg

 

 

Those evergreens look about as ready as I am for winter to be over. Snowfall totals from this storm are supposed to be between 9" & 15" once it's all done.

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thanks for sharing the photos.

 

It's not that I miss snowstorms. I just miss weather in general. 300+ days of the year being sunshine will do that to a person. Most will disagree with me. But that's just the way I'm wired. I never thought that I'd miss snow when I moved here 14 years ago, but I do. When we get snow up on the mountains, I'll usually drive up there just to check it out and rekindle the love for weather. But a half-hour later, I've got my fill and ready to head back down.

 

When we were up in Wisconsin two years ago, we were up for an extended stay. I got to shovel/snow blow for about 15 of the 25 days we were up there. I was ready to go home by day five. But still, I can look at it fondly because we don't get anything near that unpredictable here.

 

Monsoon clouds and moisture every day from about July through September, sure. But only a handful of those days do we actually get any rain at our house--the cooler mountains usually suck all of the rain up before it hits the valley. That's about as predictable as it gets.

 

As for your storm up there this week, were any of you really surprised at all? There is always a snow storm that coincides with either WIAA Girls or WIAA Boys weekend. That should be it for you until the fall, excepting for the rare snowfall that may come down in April.

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