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Back many years ago I was cat fishing the Marietta bend below chickies rock when a suspected meteoriite made impact somewhere in lancaster. Whatever tonight was was also many magnitudes, brighter and louder then that.

I don’t have the data to support but I’m pretty sure our upper echelon storms start to cluster around 12-13”. Anything over that is pretty good for us. .

Some pretty jaw dropping wording from the headlines of the latest AFD from NWS Marquette. This thing is going to be a truly remarkable (and dangerous) storm for even the winter-hardened folks of the UP.

Well last night the 0z Hi Res group had us under sleet / dry slot and the death band in Hinckley at this hour so we might get better predictability just dusting off the old Microsoft Paint. Anyways bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; I measured 2” as of 10 pm under this initial band, comes out to ~0.75” per hour or so. .

Apparently, they can set off ordinance after sunset, but i've certainly never seen the flash from explosions that far away this lit everything up like it was daytime and seemed to come from the sky. It was also many times louder than any ordinance.I've ever heard from indian town gap.

Looks like it could be a top 10 event for MSP. Just needs to exceed 16.0”. I’m surprised that MSP (POR 140 years) only has 3 storms of 18”+, and only 22 storms between 13-17”. That’s disappointing. On the latter, I would have expected at least twice as many, and probably even 3x as many (which would imply one such storm every other year). A 13” storm isn’t supposed to be a big deal for MSP, but apparently it is.

In my book, that’s a solid B…and it would be a B+ if the snow cover was 3”+ on a majority of those 99 days.

After 80s on Tues and storm chasing I'm good. Lol. Im so over cold. But would of been cool to get a historical blizzard like this.

Did you hear it too?

I don't think they can set off ordinance after the sunsets.

I’m wondering if we get a different type of crazy cold front this time. Not 50 degrees over 24 hours but 20-25+ in one hour

I’m not sure what the NAM is on but…….

Yesterday it topped at 50mph before the power clipped out and the feed dropped. May have been a higher gust. It’s in a relatively good spot but still can be blocked from NW gusts.

I'll gladly take 2-4" - I want to see how cold it can get Tuesday morning.

Very cool! What did it pick up as far as max winds?

Yep. The poor radar coverage a few years ago caused a tornado to go unwarned in Catawba County and multiple people died.

Is the Gap doing training drills this weekend?

I would be careful writing those off as mini-supes. With such pristine wind profiles, only about 1k cape can get it done.

Yes, exactly the case here. It's not shade...my front yard faces north, and it has less because a lot of the snowfall is blocked by the pine, so it's mostly melted out. MBY faces south, it totally open, and has the 6-8".

Wife had maternity shoot in Marshfield today. Man was it brutal out. Wind was howling

No, it's not sheltered in the sense that it's shaded....MBY gets decent sun. I think the cold just pooled here well on Thursday AM...if you look at that map, that little appendage to the south, just N of KWLM, is right over me.

I'll be prepped and ready to go to my basement on Monday if I need to. This looks like it will be one that will be developing on top of the Metro Charlotte area from the Hickory/Unifour portion southward towards Shelby in Cleveland County. It will accelerate eastward through the midday-afternoon hours. This is could be bad for the Triangle, Greater Richmond, the Metro Washington area AKA the DMV, and Metro Baltimore. Especially, if there are individual supercells form ahead of main squall line or the line potentially forms as line segments with embedded supercells. Situations setting up like this on Monday is why Metro Charlotte needs a NEXRAD Doppler radar site & its own NWS forecast office to provide better radar reflectivity below 5,000 feet in its region. This would also help the Winston-Salem & High Point side of the Piedmont Triad area as well with better lower-level radar reflectivity coverage.

Yeah 0z not kind to IL. Lol. Another non event. Ready for spring to stick around

It's like that with any large event...

Yea, I hadn't sniffed within 10" of average since 2017-2018 until this year.