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1 hour ago, WaryWarren said:

Really. I'd rather have a torch and spend Valentine's Day with that special someone at a candlelight dinner in our designated tornado shelter.

Bring the Spring!

Waiting at school to pick up my son, about 6-7 miles south of home. The gradient is absolutely amazing. Maybe 2" at home, but close to 6" at school.

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9 minutes ago, michaelmantis said:

I'm in Elgin IL (Northern Kane around I-90) and *right* on the borderline of the snow line ending on radar (as of 12:20 PM) and the flakes are best of the event right now in my area. 

Looks like something may be trying to build up again around I-39 and I could squeeze an inch or two more out of this on the razors edge. 

 

 

I'm just to the east of your red rectangle, and there's nothing falling from the sky under those returns.

1 minute ago, Street said:

Am I the only one who doesn't know what GHD means? 

Groundhog Day

2011 Groundhog Day blizzard - Wikipedia (GHD I)

January 31 – February 2, 2015 North American blizzard - Wikipedia (GHD II)

Just now, CheeselandSkies said:

Leave it to a Chicagoan...

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Double doink!

1 minute ago, Brian D said:

So its a Chicago thing then?

 

I would say so.

1 minute ago, Brian D said:

I see the moniker given to past Ground Hogs day events that were quite significant as GHD I, II for the southern area of this sub forum. In what years did they happen?

2: Regardless of the waving tail effect of the model runs, this looks to be one of those events. I don't see any major back down of QPF in whatever form. So would you like me to change the title now to GHD III?

GHD I and II were very much centered around northern Illinois and Chicago.

33 minutes ago, pondo1000 said:

No kidding!!! So ridiculous isn’t it?!

So it should be circulating around Facebook in 5...4...3...

3 minutes ago, Frog Town said:

It feels like as this time last night Clipper #2 was trending up, but Clipper #3 is becoming a dud...

It's raining in Bismarck ND. In January.

Just now, Baum said:

Not that it can't score a win. But it has always seemed to me the HRRR is the model for those not in the game to lean on at gametime to give hope only to be left in the ditch. I've done it repeatedly. Weenie take. Good news for me in this instance it doesn't matter much.

Just like Bears quarterbacks?

16 straight hours in the high 30's is gonna take out the minimal snow there is here.

For anyone unable to get out there and "enjoy" this wind:

I hate wind.

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Really?

Finally a started here south of KDKB.

MO/IA dry slot says "Happy New Year!"

1 minute ago, mimillman said:

Not too bad ourselves. Thinking burbs may score a 2-4” event 

IDK...Radar looks like a PIA surprise. LOL

1 hour ago, WestMichigan said:

Now if only the GFS can be believed which we all know is next to impossible.  Even Chicago would see something from this.  The Ohio Valley is left out, but if this happens their time may come. The positive thing from this is that it looks like cold air will finally make a return to at least parts of the subforum.

I'd say that has about the same odds as Nagy keeping his job.

1 hour ago, Hoosier said:

Chicago's latest measurable record is so going down.  Twice in 10 years.  

What happened in Jan/Feb/Mar of 2013?

What even is this shape?

1 minute ago, CryHavoc said:

I dunno, doesn't look like a Ferrari or Lamborghini, so likely just EF1 damage being shown here.

Now I'm imagining Clarkson sitting in his Lambo when an ear of corn flies through his windshield.

I saw this recently posted on Reddit from a John Deere repair shop in Kentucky.

1 minute ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Interestingly, HRRR soundings show some SBCINH ahead of the line of convection as it crosses the Mississippi this evening...but it doesn't kill it off.

A case of frontal forcing/dynamics strong enough? Still, may be a limiting factor on gust intensity and tornado production.

Anything that limits the gust intensity is welcome.

1 minute ago, bowtie` said:

You do know we live on a round planet, right?

Nobody remembers the southern hemisphere.

4 hours ago, buckeye said:

... winter disappeared and never really came back.

Except for the Valentine's Day ice storm.