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[Thundersnow12]

Holy hell, I'd pay money to see 2" diameter flakes for awhile. Interesting to see what happens as it nears northern IL and this area.

3" is impressive if its legit.

[cyclone77]

Thundersnow12, on 20 February 2012 - 11:30 PM, said:

Holy hell, I'd pay money to see 2" diameter flakes for awhile. Interesting to see what happens as it nears northern IL and this area.

Yep, which is why I have the vid cam ready. Something interesting like that can make a winter.

[Chicago Storm]

TSSN in the DVN/MLI area.

[cyclone77]

And we have a lightning strike right in the heart of the QC. Fantastic.

Flake size here is already quite nice.

[cyclone77]

Chicago Storm, on 20 February 2012 - 11:36 PM, said:

TSSN in the DVN/MLI area.

Beat me to it dammit.

[Thundersnow12]

cyclone77, on 20 February 2012 - 11:37 PM, said:

And we have a lightning strike right in the heart of the QC. Fantastic.

Flake size here is already quite nice.

congrats! I'm jealous!

[cyclone77]

Thundersnow12, on 20 February 2012 - 11:42 PM, said:

congrats! I'm jealous!

I didn't see it. I'm gonna start filming and just point it to the west and hope I get lucky lol. Very large flakes now, but it's mixed with rain.

[cyclone77]

Bleh, already changed to rain here even though the temp dropped 3 degrees. No accumulation.

[Hoosier]

cyclone77, on 20 February 2012 - 11:59 PM, said:

Bleh, already changed to rain here even though the temp dropped 3 degrees.  No accumulation.

"Winter" 11-12 fights back.

[Geos]

cyclone77, on 20 February 2012 - 11:59 PM, said:

Bleh, already changed to rain here even though the temp dropped 3 degrees. No accumulation.

Sad.
Looks like you have a dewpoint of 30°, maybe it'll flip back over.

[Justin]

I had a brief period of thundersnow at around 1025-1030. Snowed like holy heck for a while...nice fat flakes, and as soon as it came it was gone. have since flipped back to a light misty rain.

[cyclone77]

0.03" of rain so far. The half hour interlude of wet flakes was nice.

[cyclone77]

1.2" and counting at DVN just 20 miles west of here. Not even raining here anymore.

[Geos]

-SN at Freeport now.

Later on in the morning:

[Thundersnow12]

pretty cool WV image our system

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[Mogget]

Snow, small flakes here in Verona, 10 mi south and west of Madison. Very pretty because it looks like it's pouring down in the street lights. Had to look twice to see if it was rain or snow. Ground is whitened; cars are covered. Roads don't look bad yet...heading out to the gym in a few minutes so I'll be finding out first-hand...

[turtlehurricane]

Mogget, on 21 February 2012 - 04:54 AM, said:

Snow, small flakes here in Verona, 10 mi south and west of Madison. Very pretty because it looks like it's pouring down in the street lights. Had to look twice to see if it was rain or snow. Ground is whitened; cars are covered. Roads don't look bad yet...heading out to the gym in a few minutes so I'll be finding out first-hand...

I woke up a bit after it ended. Never got below freezing apparently so the roads are just wet. Doesn't look like all that much snow and it'll be melting all day.

[BowMeHunter]

the little while it snowed here in the mid 30's it stuck to the roads so it must have come down pretty decent.. Dam radar looks like its ripping decent for another hr or so to the north where im heading ice fishing.. guess I'll get a delayed start as rush hr and snow is for the unfortunates going to work.

[weatherbo]

An unexpexted 2" here. A few miles east of here, IWX reported 1" in 30 min at the office. Coming down nice still, temp hovering at 32.

[SchaumburgStormer]

Got a quick and suprise 1" here. Light snow mixed with rain continuing to fall.

[cyclone77]

Picked up 0.11" of rain and 0.2" of snow.

[Alek]

plain rain here

[turtlehurricane]

MKX looks similar to Madison, just a little later.

[turtlehurricane]

New band of snow firing up just as it gets to Madison!

http://tempest.aos.w...icompflash.html

[Thunder Road]

Surprised to find a coating this morning. Stuck to the roads and everything too. I mean only about an inch (on the grass), but still more than I was expecting.

[Powerball]

Everybody in Michigan is all snow so far.

In fact, Ann Arbor is below freezing with 1/4 mile visibilities.

[michsnowfreak]

Was honestly surprised to open my shade to snow falling very nicely now, huge flakes, and sticking a bit. This is now day #37 with snow falling this season believe it or not (day #22 of measurable snow), but this ones lasting quality will be probably an hour lol.

[dmc76]

[SpartyOn]

Snowing cats and dogs. Nice rates too. 1inch per hour is a good guess. Too bad it will last for a massive 45 mins.

[weatherpsycho]

Nice surprise today. I haven't been paying attention to this system and now we are getting <0.5 mile visibilities.

[michsnowfreak]

Visib 0.25 mi at ARB and 0.5 mi at DTW. Very nice brief surprise. The forecast calls for rain possinly mixed with snow by afternoon. lol

[dmc76]

Look out NE Oakland and NW Macomb!

[Powerball]

Dewpoints appear to be lower than forecasted, so wet bulbing is effectively doing the job.

Most should still probably see some rain by the end of the day, even per the surprising cooler RUC.

[dmc76]

michsnowfreak, on 21 February 2012 - 09:38 AM, said:

Visib 0.25 mi at ARB and 0.5 mi at DTW. Very nice brief surprise. The forecast calls for rain possinly mixed with snow by afternoon. lol

I was weary about that forecast earlier with temps in the low 30's

[SpartyOn]

This likely qualified for the 3rd most intense snowfall of the winter. It's effectively ripping out there. I'm down to about 1/4 mile. I think some fog has rolled in under the precipitating clouds thus lowering the visibility even more.