Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year! We Remember the Blizzard of 1999!


Greg Brown sends us our first weather picture of 2009 and it is a very nice one! We did start out with sunshine before the high cirrus clouds took over. These high-level clouds are telling us we have a very dry atmosphere and with the main storm track remaining well to our north it means we can get ready for some more mild weather and it will stay calm at least for the next couple of days! I took a shot at our altocumuls clouds that signify that a weak front is on the way.


It is great to check in with you. I am doing all the weather shifts through Friday so I will have to make this quick. Don't worry about me, I love this stuff, just like I do blogging with the greatest bloggers on earth! I wanted to make sure our morning meteorologist Stefanie Davis could go cheer her brother on in the Orange Bowl today. He plays for the University of Cincinnati football team. I am very happy for her and her family. Go Bearcats! Stefanie should be enjoying those 70s that is for sure and she will be back on Monday and says hi to everybody.

I am amazed at our weather pattern. This is January, our snowiest and coldest month of the year and our first weathermaker of the new year will likely be in the form of rain. This speaks volumes. It looks like mainly light rain Saturday night into Sunday with less than a quarter inch expected which is great news for the rivers!

Next week this all changes as our zonal jet stream amplifies. We have a doozy of a storm that could bring snow to start and then plenty of rain but I can tell you the models are not agreeing on the storm track. If it stays all snow I can tell you we will have 6 or more inches but the European is bringing its track right up close to Tippecanoe County which tells me we could have a changeover to rain. I think the big concern is that it will be a significant storm which could cause flooding once again on the Wabash by later next week. I will start posting the different storm tracks here on the blog so you have an appreciation of what meteorologists look at to try to determine if it is going to be rain or snow. Right now based on what I am seeing this week, I am more in favor of a change-over to mainly rain with our chances of real winter and snow holding off until next weekend. I am working on your January outlook that looks bizarre! Different year and same wild Indiana weather. You can always count on it!

Lafayette's Biggest Snowstorms:

1) December 19, 1929 20.5"

2) February 13, 2007 17.0"

3) December 20, 1973 17.0"

4) January 1-2, 1999 16.0"


Now speaking of wild it is New Year's of course which is a reminder of the big blizzard that basically shut the Lafayette area down for about 3 days back in 1999. Here is where it ranked on the all-time list. I will find you some more tidbits and post them here for you this evening and tomorrow we will look at that January outlook and the big battle about to take place this month! Happy New Year! I want to thank my wife and Niccole Caan for the great brunch they put together today! The food was outstanding. I will try to share a picture and recipe!

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19 comments:

Anonymous said...

OH NO! just in time for school!

Anonymous said...

LOL Katie, regarding the cole slaw! so my strategy wont work for avoiding the corned beef and cabbage??? I did take a bite though:((

Sounds like another crazy mix of wx next week and a chance of Flooding?

Thanks for the updates Mike and Happy New Year! Sounds as if your are going to have a very busy start to it!

Teri in Laf.

Anonymous said...

Happy 2009! Everybody! Mike don't work to hard!

I did see you doing the Weather at noon! Now I know why! :)

Everybody have a good night! And enjoy this nice day to start out the New year!

Justin in Lafayette

Anonymous said...

lol, Mike should not be allowed to mention snow in his forcasts until we have it falling to the ground.

Anonymous said...

To anonymous, that was not a nice to post to Mike about the snow, you did not make mention of rain, or poss flooding in the forcast as well! Do we just sit and wait till it's here? Mike is giving us a heads-up on what could happen!!!

You must have a hang over or just want to start something? If you read Mikes posting he stated "We have a doozy of a storm that COULD BRING SNOW ALONG WITH RAIN!

Get real!

Anonymous said...

Who will be doing the weekend weather Mike? you stated you will be doing all shifts till Friday. Is there a new person for the weekend weather?

Anonymous said...

Hey that is GREAT I did not know she had a brother in FootBall! Go Bearcats!!!!!!!!

This is one of the many great things about this blog! Not only do you get to know more about all the bloggers and Weather But you get to know more about the People at WLFI! The Best News ststion in the World!!!!!

Happy New Year!

Justin in Lafayette

Joey said...

Aw...6" of snow would mean riding inside. Don't get me wrong, I think snow looks great- off on the side of the road, haha.

Anonymous said...

I am hoping for snow. I want my daughter to be able to play in it and to take her sledding.

I remeber 1999, we had just moved here from IL. and right after we moved our stuff in it hit. My aunt and her kids got stuck at our place and my step dad had trouble returning the u hual truck...he made it to the road but right b4 there got stuck...
went to the door and nobody was there. They tried to charge him for not getting it there on time gezz lol. I think he got it worked out in the end.

Renee in laf.

Anonymous said...

I just read on accuweather that our area (Laf) could see 3.6 inches of snow on Sunday, then alot of snow on Tuesday, oh me oh my, we will have to wait to see what this system is going to do...

Anonymous said...

accuwx just changed it to 1 inch...brother!

Anonymous said...

I remember getting all the snow in 1999. It was crazy, we were out a month from school. 2 weeks vacation then another 2 for snow days. then a week of delays. It got to the point the night before, they just canceled it.

I want a decent snow storm, but not that much. We haven't had any yet.
I am looking forward to Florida in the Spring already though.

Anonymous said...

Its strange, but I dont remember the blizzard of 1999, I do remember all of the others though!

Anonymous said...

Gaylord Michigan has had almost 90 inches of snow so far this season. They are so lucky!!!

Anonymous said...

Cant wait to see what next week will bring, hopfully enough snow to go out and play and have snow day from school,that would be great! I hope for no more rain for awhile,,just to dreary, need some bright white stuff to make it cheery!

Katie said...

Teri, I had to fix the corned beef and the cabbage and I too had just a bite! I think it is an accuired taste! I think my spelling is wrong on that word, sorry!

Anonymous said...

Well Everybody It is looking like Thursday into Wednesday is going to be the system to watch! This is because we will see a mix to all snow! At least that is how it is looking for now! The thing we will have to keep a watch on is going to be when we change over to all snow!

Then we will have a better idea as to how much we will see in the way of snow! Right now I have Between One and Three Inches or even a possible two to four Inches! It is still a little iffy to give a good forecasted amount! This is still a good Four days away! So we will just have to keep watching it and keep all posted! You know me I want more snow! ;-) All have a great day!

Justin in Lafayette

Anonymous said...

No snow please. Christmas is past and snow just causes problems for everyone and takes are tax dollars to remove. But that's just me.

Anonymous said...

i believe oh man winter does not like indiana very much, whatever happened to the days where we got snow in november and it stayed till march,, Hi everyone from Monticello