Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Forecast was right on target.

Was going to write this up last night,however no time to,has I was working on the winter forecast...That should be out tonight when I get home from work...Anyway the forecast for Sunday panned out just right...We had off and on snow showers all day...Though the change over to snow didn't happen till around 7 AM or shortly after...We did have a dusting of snow Sunday night,My truck was white Monday morning at 4:30 AM..Also some of the secondary roads were a little slippery...
Here are some of the snowfall reports from the NWS for my whole forecast area(this is my forecast area for the private firm I forecast for....LES was not that heavy like we thought it was going to be...Should have had a more Northerly winds,however giving the models output that is what we had forecasted....
0600 AM SNOW EMBARRASS 10/27/2008 M0.5 INCH ST. LOUIS MN CO-OP OBSERVER0700 AM SNOW INTERNATIONAL FALLS
10/27/2008 M0.3 INCH KOOCHICHING MN OFFICIAL NWS OBS0700 AM SNOW SILVER BAY 10/27/2008 M1.5 INCH LAKE MN TRAINED SPOTTER0700 AM SNOW TOWER
10/27/2008 M0.3 INCH ST. LOUIS MN TRAINED SPOTTER0700 AM SNOW UPSON 10/27/2008 M2.0 INCH IRON WI CO-OP OBSERVER0700 AM SNOW DULUTH
10/27/2008 M0.2 INCH ST. LOUIS MN OFFICIAL NWS OBS0800 AM SNOW WASHBURN
10/27/2008 M0.5 INCH BAYFIELD WI TRAINED SPOTTER0800 AM SNOW GURNEY
10/27/2008 M1.5 INCH IRON WI CO-OP OBSERVER0830 AM SNOW 20 NE PARK FALLS
10/27/2008 E1.0 INCH IRON WI TRAINED SPOTTER.
Winds for the most part were right on target...We had gusts up to 40 MPH here at the office,with winds from 20 to 30 MPH on the average..Winds did slack up off and on through the day,however did increase once again Sunday night...So unlike what I have heard and read from others...The forecasts that were issued not only by my office but also the NWS were on the mark! Except the LES that we had forecasted,but that was talked about above!