<p>It was over 60 degrees and sunny all day yesterday and most of the week (not really warm at all for you west coast folks). I thought for sure that Spring was really here. Then I wake up this morning and it's snowing super hard, right when the weekend starts.</p>
<p>Because you live in Chicago… The only place I know which has more unpredictable weather patterns than Chicago is Boston, MA…</p>
<p>Really? I’m so jealous. It’s like 70-something here. I hate the heat. (And yes, 70 is considered hot to me. [I seem to be the only person who thinks that’s hot though, lol] I could never live someplace like Texas or Florida where 70 is nothing.) I hate it.
Bring more snow.</p>
<p>It was 85 yesterday here in California.</p>
<p>this weather is awesome! (NJ)</p>
<p>It was 85 in CA? I thought the high was around 70 in Sacramento.</p>
<p>It’s 60 something here in northeastern Ohio. If it’s that nice here, it can’t be much worse anywhere else :p</p>
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<p>I don’t live in Sacramento.</p>
<p>ITS SNOWING HERE. AND IT WONT STOP SNOWING.
and geographically speaking, our weather should be similar to that of uppermost california.</p>
<p>It was definitely in the 80s yesterday around SF. I WISH IT WAS SNOWING HERE BUT IT ISN’T DANG IT. :(</p>
<p>It was around 80 degrees yesterday?</p>
<p>I wish that it would snow here as well.</p>
<p>In Atlanta, you get all four seasons in one week.</p>
<p>NJ weather is horrible at the moment. It’s all sunny and crap. Plus it’s creating an annoying glare on my screen. -_-</p>
<p>I wish it were rainy again.</p>
<p>It’s like 75 in NC, but that’s as warm as I go before I get cranky.</p>
<p>Dude, I’m in TX and all this “snow” they kept talking about coming was a lie. A lie bigger than Santa and dropping more childrens’ hopes than the promise of a hover-board. </p>
<p>I swear, I’m going up north to college just to see snow. I have never seen it in all my life and I’m going to make a freakin’ snowman and snowfamily and have a snowwar and then scream SNOW and cause an avalanche. This is my dream.</p>
<p>72 right now here :D</p>
<p>@ OP, why is it snowing? quick reason.</p>
<p>Extratropical cyclones can bring cold and dangerous conditions with heavy rain and snow with winds exceeding 119 km/h (74 mph),<a href=“sometimes%20referred%20to%20as%20windstorms%20in%20Europe”>1</a>. The band of precipitation that is associated with their warm front is often extensive, forced by weak upward vertical motion of air over the frontal boundary which condenses as it cools and produces precipitation within an elongated band,[2] which is wide and stratiform, meaning falling out of nimbostratus clouds.[3] When moist air tries to dislodge an arctic air mass, overrunning snow can result within the poleward side of the elongated precipitation band. In the Northern Hemisphere, poleward is towards the North Pole, or north. Within the Southern Hemisphere, poleward is towards the South Pole, or south.</p>
<p>Within the cold sector, poleward and west of the cyclone center, small scale or mesoscale bands of heavy snow can occur within a cyclone’s comma head pattern. The cyclone’s comma head pattern is a comma-shaped area of clouds and precipitation found around mature extratropical cyclones. These snow bands typically have a width of 20 miles (32 km) to 50 miles (80 km).[4] These bands in the comma head are associated with areas of frontogenesis, or zones of strengthening temperature contrast.[5]</p>
<p>Southwest of extratropical cyclones, curved cyclonic flow bringing cold air across the relatively warm water bodies can lead to narrow lake-effect snow bands. Those bands bring strong localized snowfall which can be understood as follows: Large water bodies such as lakes efficiently store heat that results in significant temperature differences (larger than 13 °C or 23 °F) between the water surface and the air above.[6] Because of this temperature difference, warmth and moisture are transported upward, condensing into vertically oriented clouds (see satellite picture) which produce snow showers. The temperature decrease with height and cloud depth are directly affected by both the water temperature and the large-scale environment. The stronger the temperature decrease with height, the deeper the clouds get, and the greater the precipitation rate becomes.[7]</p>
<p>In mountainous areas, heavy snowfall accumulates when air is forced to ascend the mountains and squeeze out precipitation along their windward slopes, which in cold conditions, falls in the form of snow. Because of the ruggedness of terrain, forecasting the location of heavy snowfall remains a significant challenge.[8]</p>
<p>hope that helped!!</p>
<p>Copy and paste from King Wikipedia.
Sweet.</p>
<p>Lol, and the citations are still there.</p>
<p>I’m still trying to figure it out.</p>