OSNW3 | OSHKOSH-NORTH

Winter is showing signs of actually presenting itself in 2011-2012. According to the OSNW3 Winter Season Duration formula, if the maximum temperature for Jan-22 stays below 32 degrees OSNW3 will have finally made the transition into winter. Regardless of the outcome this is the latest beginning to winter since the 2006-07 season . A short lived Arctic air outbreak occurred Jan 19-21 giving the region a taste of winter. Here at OSNW3 our lowest recorded temperature for the three day span, -5.6 degrees, took place during the early morning hours of Jan-20. Looking ahead, using the OSNW3 forecast temperature trend based on the Lezak's Recurring Cycle theory , days will become seasonal with a good amount of them reaching the freezing mark or greater through the first half of February. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) agrees as well for the next 14 days. I added snowfall forecast maps to the OSNW3 Weather Brief . Check them out. ( OSNW3 Weather Brief ) ( OSNW3 January Obse...

The first two weeks of January have been slightly warmer than what is typical for this time of year, a bit snowy, and mostly cloudy. Only 3 days out of the last 14 have presented the area with cloudless skies but on a bright side only 4 of them have been completely overcast. Otherwise it's been a mixed sky with sun. We've experienced 9 days with at least a Trace of precipitation and 7 days with measurable precipitation. Snowfall totals since the beginning of the month are around average. Real close to what the CPC predicted two weeks ago. As for what the second half of the month will bring, the CPC is showing colder times with good chances of above average precipitation. ( OSNW3 Weather Brief ) ( OSNW3 January Observations ) (OSNW3 January 2011 Summary) (click on graph for the month summary data - it will open a new tab/window) ---- Weekly Snowfall Since the new year meltdown, day after day of at least a Trace of snowfall has kept the non-shoveled paths full of snow. Contin...

The past month has been abnormally quite. The snow pack has turned from fluffy goodness to a frozen slab of ice two inches thick. One thing that could be considered neat about the current frozen snow pack is that you can walk on top of it with out sinking in. I know, it's a reach for positivity. Hopefully February has something winterish in store for little ol oshkosh. The monthly summary for January can be viewed by clicking the graph below. ( OSNW3 January Observations ) (OSNW3 January 2010 Summary) (click on graph for the month summary data - it will open a new tab/window) ---- Weekly Snowfall We got a dusting of snow as the system that dropped all that rain moved on out. (Jan 26, 2010 - 0.3") ---- January Flop The lack of moisture during the month may not have been noticed by everyone in town due to the decent snow pack for most of the month and the countless days with a trace of snow, but it stared me down each and every morning. As a matter of fact, the past two Jan...

This past week was even more uneventful in the snowfall department then last week. One day had snow but only a tenth of an inch accumulated. Temperatures remained below average making this January one of the coldest January's on record. More on the chilly January below. ( OSNW3 January Observations ) (Temp Comparison 2008 / 2009 | Jan 1 - 31) Max temp: 26.0 / 20.2 / -5.8 Min temp: 12.3 / 4.2 / -8.1 (January 2009 Precipitation) 2009 Monthly Total Precip.. 0.59" Snow.... 5.5" Oshkosh Average Precip.. 1.35" Snow.... 12.4" Departure Precip.. (0.76") Snow.... (6.9") ---- Top 15 Coldest January Across Much of Area Average temperatures across many parts of north-central and northeast Wisconsin for January were about 5 to 8 degrees below normal. This made January 2009 one of the top 15 coldest in about 100 years of weather records. Click here for additional information from the NWS GRB. Here at OSNW3 it was the same story. This January was the coldest...