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Nice to wake up and see this in the forecast, and great to have OHWeather forecasting this event for CLE.

Ha. Just read the AFD you wrote... hopefully this event works out. Confidence is increasing in at least a light snow area-wide late Thursday night into Friday following by lake effect snow later Friday into the weekend. There is some potential for a more notable synoptic snow if the more amplified solution with Friday`s system proves correct, though that widespread snowier outcome is still on the "less likely" side. Regardless, the set-up looks favorable for notable lake enhanced/effect snow Friday into Friday night from the Cleveland metro area into both the primary and secondary snowbelt with a north-northwest flow. While growing ice in the western and perhaps central basins may be a small negative, there should still be enough open water for a robust lake response. Ice needs to be thick and locked in to really limit that.

It didn't take long... ice covered western basin already. Will be interesting to see how much ice spreads across the central basin over the next couple of days. Just last week water temps were in the still in the upper 30's and now ice cover. We will probably get a favorable LES set-up now that ice cover is on the lake

Brutal stretch for sure. You might get some lake effect up near the lakeshore... or at least a good view of the bands offshore

Really couldn't draw it up any worse... low cutting northwest of us with limit wrap around snow... then a WSW'erly wind direction taking the lake effect to western new york. Not a great start to the year weather wise.

Yeah, we've been bleeding "warmth" from the lake with very little to show for it. Lake temps are still around 40 or so.

Snow cover has taken a beating today and should be gone by the end of the day. It will be interesting to see if the models respond/change for the weekend storm once this one passes. Would be great to see an Ohio river track to PIT.

Woke up to 1.5" of snow this morning. Nice surprise.

It has been nice to have snow on the ground all week... definitely helped make it more festive. It is melting and the rain tomorrow should finish most of it off. Considering how bad the pattern has been we've been pretty lucky with snowfall.

Your area always does well so I don't doubt 8" fell. There was a consistent blob of heavy snow around and just north of 322 yesterday afternoon. The ground was soaked from the rain prior to the snow so definitely some compaction.

Just over 6" IMBY. Very picturesque snowfall as the snow was pasted to everything before the strong winds late last night.

Everything is covered here in South Russell. Snowing heavily now. The heaviest snow has been just north of here but starting to push south into the area.

Nice to wake and up and see this in the forecast. Will be interesting to see where the lake huron band sets up. Looks like the models have taken it more to the east toward the OH/PA border.

Aren't you "Trent" that used to post here? If so, I feel bad for you man. Hope everything is ok with you.

Yeah, the past two seasons have been bad for snowfall. Regression from previous snowy seasons sucks. I guess if temps don't deliver you'll find something else to be negative about. Did you notice that CLE has had BN temp departures 5 of the last 7 months (including Nov)?

Finished with 5.5" IMBY. Missed out on some of the heavier bursts of snow. Looks like areas around here were in the 6-7" range. Nice start to the season so far.

Picked up 4" of snow as the band moved through this morning. All of it came down in the 5am - 7:30 am time frame. Perfect fetch now off of the lake... hopefully add a few more inches today.

Thanks Jim. 290 is a great wind direction as it maximizes the fetch from the western basin. Hoping the band doesn’t drive south too fast. I’m always skeptical of these early season events as winds don’t seem to turn as nw’erly as forecast.

Looks like the Route 6 corridor on north will be the jackpot zone. Should be fairly intense down this way for a few hours as the band pushes south. Hopefully it moves slowly with a strong land breeze on the south side of the band. Not too confident in the forecasted amounts in this area.

Definitely tough to accumulate near the lakeshore this time of year. Lake temps are still very "warm".

Just under 3.5" IMBY. Looks like we missed the heaviest snows but very scenic out there. Typical Fall snowfall with much more on the grass than pavement. The roads were plowed around the city though.

First advisory of the season... leaves are about 90% down in this area so tree damage should be limited. ..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Lake effect snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 4 inches. * WHERE...Geauga county. * WHEN...From 8 PM this evening to 10 AM EDT Wednesday. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A cold front moves across the area this afternoon, with lake effect precipitation developing this evening. Precipitation may briefly begin as a rain/snow mix before quickly becoming all snow. The heaviest snow is expected between 11 PM and 3 AM when snowfall rates of up to 1"/hr will be possible.

Last Winter was about as bad as it gets... won't take much to be better . Really glad most of the leaves came down over the past week if we do get a couple inches of snow tomorrow night.

First freeze in the books this week... hit 30.8 Monday morning. And first fantasy snowfall map of the season --

Fall foliage is at or just past peak in this area. Seems a week or so later than last year. Rain the next few days should bring a lot of leaf fall as they are turning and falling quickly.