The Ole Bucket

Good luck to y’all tonight. Back edge of the system headed your way started ho-hum with some rain around noon CT. By 1pm it was hammering sleet. By 1:30.. thundersleet. By 2pm, thundersnow with visible bolts of lightning. Just an absolute scene in SE Missouri. Storm total will probably come in only around 3” but it single-handedly saved winter with all the phenomenon I’ve never experienced. Hope you get the same!

Absolute scenes today in SEMO. Thundersleet, thundersnow, lightning bolts and 1” per hour rates for a short period. Total mess all over the roads Only wild for about 2 hours but it was a scene. Probably 3” of snow and sleet here in Ste. Genevieve

Looks like this system worked out for a lot of folks. Really glad to finally see a good OBS thread in this sub for the first time in awhile! Same system was supposed to give us out here in the middle of the country (SE Missouri) nothing… woke up and there was a surprise inch. Wind absolutely howling right now at 20+mph pushing the wind chill down to single digits. Only advisory we have though is a wind chill advisory for the next couple days. Haven’t gotten a big snow here this year unlike last year… but definitely a “deep winter” week and a half with multiple light snow days and subzero wind chills Congrats to y’all and may this pattern reset again this winter after the coming warmup!

They cancelled schools around here for… an inch. An inch! I mean, look, beggars can’t be choosers and I like surprise snow even if it is small amounts. Especially with this cold (it’s 3F this AM with wind chill of -11F) but the kids can’t even play in this! Worst kind of snow day possible. Not enough to play in and kids now will drive all parents insane.

Steady snow with some pretty gusty winds here in Southeast Missouri. Don’t know that it’ll really accumulate given how wet it is and temps but the change from earlier today is pretty striking.

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We're reeling Fri/Sat back in fellas. Won't be a historic one but it looks like it might deliver something. And then the COLD begins.

Absolutely disgusting mix of rain, sleet and a couple snowflakes here and there right now in SEMO. Just vile and coming down pretty hard.

Setup for that one is a lot simpler. Just a question of whether the cold will sink as far south as it's been projected to sink for... awhile!

Verbatim the 6z GFS has snow falling for 24 hrs straight IMBY for the Fri-Sat storm. Kuchera gives me 22” of digital snow. Even the 10:1 says 18” I swear if this rug gets pulled out from under me..

It’s all real knife-edge stuff for us in SEMO as well as all the models show near-misses with us getting a couple inches while the central part of the state is blasted into nuclear winter. But as they say elsewhere on the boards, we got the cold coming and the moisture will be there… “just happy to be in the game” at this point.

Well that drive back home was more of an adventure than I expected, especially in the van with all the kids in the car. Definitely WWA criteria hit in Jefferson and Ste Gen counties just south of STL

Well she has come in a bit juicy in this part of the country. Wasn’t supposed to start until 7 or 8. But started going around 4:45 local time. Y’all won’t lack for QPF..

Snow TV here in SEMO. About to head up to STL on a bit of a drive this evening. Don’t expect roadways to be a problem. Still well above freezing

King Euro needs to come through for us in SEMO. Don't like what the GFS has been selling.

Can we please push this all about... 50 miles to the southeast? I won't be greedy.

18z coming in fairly decent for tomorrow and overnight into Saturday. I'll certainly take an upgrade from snow TV to maybe a coating. Real fun begins next week.

18z GFS makes tomorrow/Sat morning into a nice little table-setter if it can verify. No one is gonna throw away an inch or two even before the pattern sets up!

18z GFS splashes my neck of the woods with a half-inch tomorrow evening, up from snow TV in most prior runs. I'll let you folks know how she's coming in as she steers across the middle of the country. Rooting for y'all to get a hit after a very disappointing winter last year. Good luck!

Lock that up and throw away the key for northern MO and the Chicago area. For me? I say shove that pink south about 150 miles.

Just imagine if DC ended up like Tulsa did..

Man that seems literally impossible.

Folks who are getting the stuff that hit southeast MO overnight and into this morning (we're starting to taper).. you're gonna like it. Probably a good 5-6" here, WSW criteria actually verified for once!

From the heart of the storm out here in SE MO. A view from my WFH home office's front porch

From the front porch of my WFH office