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I flew out of CLE earlier this morning. Night and day difference between the eastside and westside. There was barely a trace of snow when I got to the airport, while it looked like Winter in our area.

That's a long stretch of snow cover for this Winter. We are used to LES fluff around here which goes away quickly... this paste has staying power. The ground beneath isn't even frozen.

As of 1/30 CLE has a +8.6 temp departure for January, and the snowfall decifit is up to 18". Remarkably the past 4 days may be the longest stretch I've had this winter with snow cover. The paste that fell on Sunday and Monday is still on the ground and coating the trees. While the snow isn't deep it has looked like Winter at least.

Thanks for sharing. Good stuff. Hard to believe that snowstorms actually happened in Ohio

That area has been in the band quite awhile... I'm sure the fluff is adding up. Starting to snow lightly again in Chagrin.

This has definitely been a strange LES event. The trough that was supposed to push through early yesterday afternoon took until the late evening to move south so areas near the lakeshore picked-up the heaviest snowfall. Picked up around 5" last night on top of what fell yesterday. Despite the low inversion the flake size is actually large. The moisture from lake huron definitely helps. Seems like there were isolated pockets of heavier snowfall... more so than usual with lake effect. The winds are fairly light so we'll probably see the heavier snows set-up closer to the lakeshore today. Finally looks like Winter with a nice snow pack in place.

Picked up 4.5” overnight. Looks like another hour or 2 of snow before we mix. Definitely more than I expected.

Looks like an inch or two of of LES tonight. Then maybe a couple of inches with the storm -- WAA always over-performs around here so the snowfall could certainly flip to mix/rain earlier than forecast. The LES Sunday thru Wednesday looks good from a wind direction standpoint.

CLE's temp departure for the month is up to +12.8. While it felt nice this past weather it was just odd to be outside in short sleeves in January. Hopefully we can manage a few inches of snow this coming weekend.

CLE's temp departure thru 1/9 is +9.3. This will likely go up with the warmth over the next couple of days. We are still ahead of last year with snowfall by an inch (wow last winter was awful as well). We should chip away at that temp departure later in the month provided the long range pans out. Enjoy the warmth and flooding rains over the weekend .

We would be just as bad as CLE without lake effect. Imagine how different CLE's snowfall would look if the airport was located on the east side.

Looking at the numbers CLE has had a long stretch of bad winters since 2010... the average snowfall from the 2010 - 2019 time frame has been 51.8" -- which is 16" below normal. That's really bad. At this point it will be hard to get to 51" this Winter given the long range outlook. Perhaps this is becoming the new normal.

That was an intense squall this morning. Too bad it pushed south so quickly. Hopefully we'll pick-up a few additional inches today. Radar looks pretty good upstream.

We are definitely in a string of bad winters. 2013/2014 was cold with slightly average snowfall. 2010/2011 was the last well above average winter IMBY - https://www.weather.gov/cle/Climate_Snowfall_2010-11

CLE finished December with a +5.6 temp departure. That's absurdly warm. The snowfall deficit is at -10" for the season. I'm around 23" for the season. It would be uglier without the November LES event.

Picked up a little over 3” today. Very wet but scenic. Looks like the lake effect may set up just north tonight but we’ll see. The 12z euro run was great for northern Ohio. Be great for half of that to verify.

Nice to see the snow flying again. It has been almost two weeks. 3-6" in the forecast.

CLE's temp departure is up to +4.3 for December, and -9.2" snowfall for the season. Definitely a December to forget.

The remaining snow cover should be gone today... although it has been resilient. Have to admit the past few days have felt great.

That's right around the total I came up with. Enjoy the snow cover while it lasts. Winter appears to be going into hibernation for awhile. I guess the positive is that the lake will remain open for when the cold returns.

The snow this morning fell in about a half an hour. It dumped as the band move south around 6am. Still snowing nicely in Chagrin. This is a really good wind direction for the area so maybe we can cash in a few more hours before ridging starts to move in.

Looks like the banding CLE mentioned yesterday set-up over the central basin of lake erie. Congrats fish! Which ever model showed the least amount of precip/snow did the best with this one. Maybe we'll pick up another inch or so today. Hopefully the LES performs tomorrow morning. Too bad the ridging moves in from the west so quickly.

No bad trends in today's model runs. Banding will be the key to seeing the higher snowfall totals. Should rip pretty well between 4am - 10am. Thinking 3-5" might be a good call.

Just a dusting last night. Pretty good storm track upcoming for Northeast Ohio... should be south enough to keep the WTOD from pushing this far north. Too bad moisture is so limited on the northern side. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

I was surprised when it flipped over around 8:30 this morning. Currently 32/32 IMBY. The wet snow is coating everything.