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Some flakes actually fell for about 5 minutes all the way south here in Rock County (but melted when they hit the ground). Not often we get snow (even if it DOES melt on impact) near the stateline in October. I'm hoping for nothing measurable until around Christmas.
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Yeah, snowed downtown (not sure about elsewhere) for about 2 hours. No accumulation on the streets, but looks like maybe 1/2 inch on the grass, cars, rooftops.

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.8" at the airport in Madison, only a bit of which clung to grassy/muddy spots. That 16-degree wind chill on the way home was the suck, though. It didn't help that my iPod called up "Summer in the City." Mock me through shuffle, will you?!
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Maybe the Farmers Almanac is going to be right this year. They predicted brutally cold temperatures and higher than normal snowfall. That is not exactly a combination that I look forward to. I will take one or the other or neither please.

 

And I thought the Brewers season sucked. Why didn't humans evolve to hibernate through this miserable season.

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The Farmers Almanac always says that winter is going to be cold and snowy. Of course it is, it's winter. It apparently predicts a Superbowl snowstorm so we'll see how that works out.

 

The official forecast is that nobody really knows. There doesn't seem to be strong evidence either way this year.

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I can't recall ever having a tornado watch this late in the year.

 

This deadly tornado hit Wisconsin on November 11, 1911 (11/11/11). It tore a path from near Brodhead to around Milton. Making things worse was the fact that temperatures dropped from the 70s before the storm to zero afterwards. Not surprisingly, the effects of the storm were more widespread. It's known as the Great Blue Norther of November 11, 1911.

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Also, there was this graphic in the Journal/Sentinel this morning. Only month to not have a tornado (since 1954) has been February.

 

http://media.jrn.com/images/TORNADOES18G.jpg

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last night i was listening to a radio station that was replaying a month-old (or so) interview with Josh Sitton and Eddie Lacy. Lacy hasn't/hadn't seen snow before.

Why do I get the feeling that, regardless, he's the type of guy who'll go bare-arms during the cold weather games

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Also, there was this graphic in the Journal/Sentinel this morning. Only month to not have a tornado (since 1954) has been February.

 

http://media.jrn.com/images/TORNADOES18G.jpg

And two of those three January tornadoes were in Kenosha County in 2008. It was exactly two weeks after we had given a few of the S.O.'s family members weather radios as Christmas gifts.

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My best memory of an "off-season" tornado was March 8th, 2000 (March 8th also happens to be my birthday). It clipped Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. I couldn't remember what year it was until I just looked it up, but I was thinking it was more like 5 or 6 years ago...not 13! Geez..time flies! At the time, it was the earliest tornado on record.

 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/document/tor/030800.php

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My best memory of an "off-season" tornado was March 8th, 2000 (March 8th also happens to be my birthday). It clipped Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. I couldn't remember what year it was until I just looked it up, but I was thinking it was more like 5 or 6 years ago...not 13! Geez..time flies! At the time, it was the earliest tornado on record.

 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/document/tor/030800.php

 

I remember that tornado! It was on Ash Wednesday. I remember the news media making a huge deal about it.

 

Looks like a chilly weekend in Wisconsin. Single digit lows are expected on Saturday night across most of the state.

 

Whenever it is cold in the Midwest it tends to be dry and sunny in Seattle--so I'm quite happy with the current pattern.

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