Crispus

I was just assuming Friday would be a snow day for the kids here in Peoria, but at this point, I think I'd just prefer nothing. If it's not 7+", I don't want it, especially with a follow-up deep freeze that means the roads will be crappy until Wednesday. :-/

Local media reporting 6.5" official total for Peoria. Pretty good considering I didn't see flakes until nearly noon, and it was tapering off shortly after 6pm. I've shoveled, and yeah, that total's about what I would have guessed.

Finally starting to see my first few isolated flakes in Peoria.

No flakes yet in Peoria, IL. Rain has soaked into the ground for the most part, and I don't think we got anything in the way of ice (or at least, I don't see anything now). The winter storm warning still calls for 5-9" (since ILX didn't update it, as noted previously), but I've been entertained by seeing other site forecasts jumping around from 8" to 3" to 6" just in the past 10 hours. Meanwhile, I'm seeing people predictably complain about school being cancelled, since nothing's happened yet, even though anyone paying attention knew there would be a morning lull  (though, I think most did think we'd be seeing snow by 10am).

10 minutes ago, Chambana said:

Winds blowing harder than forecast it seems. N-S roads are a complete disaster. Near whiteout conditions. 

 

I have some friends planning to drive from Peoria to the U of I game in Champaign tonight. They tried to convince me to go with 'em, but I didn't think it was a good idea. Feeling like I made the right call so far.

Sample picture of I-74 through Peoria from an hour ago (source: Facebook)

Graphic from ILX, posted 2 hours ago. If Peoria has 6 inches now, we're on track for the expected 9-13" (maybe - I'm not sure how much we had when this was posted). They're expecting snow to end by early afternoon, so looks like they're not expecting the second wave to reach us.

23 minutes ago, backdoorfront said:

I know it's Accuweather. It still strikes me as funny to see this. I'm old enough that I might not ever see it again. That's quite the wide range there.

20 miles North of Columbia, MO.

 

Wow, a 1% chance of greater than 3 feet!

ILX Discussion excerpt, from 10am:

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Attention then turns to this weekend, as yet another weather system
lifts across the Mid-Mississippi Valley.  The latest ensemble and
probabilistic guidance suggests a very sharp cut-off in snow totals
along I-74, with periods of sleet and rain occurring progressively
to the south.  Some degree of uncertainty remains on timing, but
light precip should spread into the region by Noon on Saturday.

With the latest 12z guidance trickling in, the swath of 2+ inch
snowfall has trended north of I-74; perhaps well north. Instead,
sleet and rain should be the dominant precip type this weekend
across central and southern IL where minor flooding could occur.

So...sounds like they're thinking rain for PIA. I saw weatherunderground went from 8 inches, to 4 inches, to 2 inches, now to an inch of rain.

1 hour ago, StormChaser4Life said:

Lol hard lesson learned with this current storm. Watch this one will trend way south of me. Lol

Nah, I bet it'll hit us, it'll just stay all rain.

Not liking the trends from a Peoria standpoint, but if we're not going to get 6", I'd just as soon get as little as possible. Go big or go home away.

5 minutes ago, fluoronium said:

So if I get 33 and rain most of the day tomorrow, I'm going to be irritated

If this were snow, I'd be right with ya. Ice, though...I don't have a problem with forecasts being wrong about ice storms, especially with my driveway being about 15 degrees from being vertical (slight exaggeration). 

2 hours ago, fluoronium said:

This would be such a cursed way to end the 2019-2020 snow season as it would finally dethrone Halloween for the biggest snow of the season IMBY. Seems totally ridiculous, but the past two Aprils have brought significant snows to my area so I'm not ruling out a couple inches of snow here.

Yeah, facebook just reminded me that we had a big snowfall here one year ago today. It was annoying then, and it'd be annoying now. I'm in spring mode, so I want this waste of a winter behind me. I resent stat-padding that'll make this awful winter look better than it was.

Here's a NA-specific site I've been using (in addition to the John Hopkins COVID dashboard). This one seems to get results updated faster than any other site I've checked, and it's easy to see the delta changes. Plus, there's a county breakdown:

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/

Ugh, looking like another 1-3" for Peoria. Even if it magically stretches to 4", I don't want it, because I'm tired of these little nickel-and-dime snows. If we can't get 8"+, I'd rather skip it and go straight to spring.

I know they used to say 'knee high in July' regarding where corn was supposed to be, but in recent years the corn seems to be much higher than that in July. I assume this is due to new hybrids, genetic engineering, etc. Does that mean less time is needed nowadays for a crop?  And if that's the case, does that mean planting late is not as big a deal as it used to be?

1 hour ago, janetjanet998 said:

I will bore you all with my concern for this area..

The area Below is called the Levee district of East Peoria....At one time it consisted of nothing but Caterpillar Manufacturing Buildings...

if you look at Google maps you can see these buildings and several small blocks of homes (built for the CAT workers orginally)..there may be 150 homes in the area...the area west of Main street and south of Camp is this levee district.. this is also known as the "bottoms"

There are still several large active CAT buildings but the ones on the NE side have been torn down and replaced with Costco, Target, Gordmans and many other commercial buildings ...in the past 10-20 years

They still assemble all the Large CAT dozers here worldwide (building SS) ..which can seen stored on Google earth 

anyway that levee isn't the best.. and the flood 5 years ago they shut down all the CAT buildings and people started to flee the homes

I don't recall where i saw it but someone was quoted as saying the river would flood all the way to main street before the levee was there...there was rumours of it leaking in 2013 

Yep, I know people who work at Cat buildings in that area. One told me that in his IT building, they've been told they might start working from home if the river hits 29'. One of the other factory buildings is only 15' above the river, so it might be half submerged if the levee breaks or overflows. The levee is supposedly in good shape, recently inspected, but who knows.

3 hours ago, janetjanet998 said:

I think we will have RECORD flooding here in Peoria on the IL river ....

Crest already expected to be very high early next week 27-27.5 feet .. models show active pattern again next week and if the heavy rains fall upstream ,,then we are in trouble here record is 29.4 set just 5 years ago

 

I thought they were calling for it to crest at 27' at least two days ago, so I was a little surprised it was only bumped to 27.5' today. If it's cresting in Peoria on Sunday, and the more significant rain wouldn't come until Tuesday-Wednesday...it's something to keep an eye on, but not sure it'll surpass the record.

17 hours ago, weatherbo said:

Only in the single digits today with wind chills below zero all day even with full sun.

Still clearing snow

 

 

 

 

On the plus side, if you slip and fall off the roof, you won't fall far and you have a nice cushion beneath you.