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1 hour ago, StormChaser4Life said:

The winter of the I80 north jackpot continues. Hoping we can see a trend south but not counting on it. 

Sorry to say I-80 is a dividing line for multiple storms pretty much every winter.

That’s a solid looking band. Should lead to some surprises.

Decent light snow atm, flake size is definitely bigger than pixies, but the band looks transient

36 minutes ago, Baum said:

board's asleep but our first fluff maker is in bound

Thread would be bumpin just a few weeks ago

Topped it off as the arctic front was blowing in

14 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

It looks like a legit blizzard with this last band.  Enough snow had fallen, and with the heavy falling snow it's pretty gnarly out there.  Hit a few spots on the way home where it was a complete whiteout, and the falling snow was quite light at the time.  Can only imagine how bad it is right about now out there. 

Gotta love an arctic front

Was using my iPhone to record one of the heavier bands about 30 mins ago and think I may have captured the only flash of lightning I've seen today. I noticed it with my eyes first and the video backed my brain up. It's subtle and nothing showed up on radar, but but take a look. About 33 seconds in after the video flips to slo-mo and pans up to the sky. Apologize for the portrait video, total rookie move. The lamp reflection is pretty tacky too. YouTube is supposedly still processing the HD version (not that it will make much of a difference).

8 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

After the heavy snow tapered off, I noticed some melting on parts of the pavement.  I think with getting later in the day and heading toward sunset, it will stick better on the pavement again even if it hangs a hair above freezing and rates aren't quite as heavy as early on.

This. We'll get our best accumulations separate from the best rates. The showery/convective depiction on radar, melting during lulls, dripping from trees reminds me of a spring system. Sure won't feel like spring in a couple hours.

Maybe a half inch so far. Poor accumulation rates, but fun to watch the big flakes fall for sure. It’ll stick better as the afternoon progresses. Front looks to be approaching the I-39 corridor over the next hour or so. It cleared DVN about an hour and a half ago.

Area of subsidence passed through quickly, back to the fatty fiesta.  

Big fatties

4 minutes ago, vortex said:

Coming down good.  

Should have no problem accumulating with rates like that. Did temps drop with dynamic cooling?

HRRR seems pretty spot on with the heaviest amounts in that area/Dubuque area up through NE Wisconsin/UP.

Just now, McHenrySnow said:

Because I was told yesterday that it was not going to get so much higher than forecast as it did yesterday. 

I wouldn't worry much about what the temperature does between now and the flip early this afternoon.

Still think we'll see about 2"-3" of new snow this afternoon.

8 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said:

Up to 37º. Odd.

Why odd? 

If this one pans out and another .75”-1” of mostly frozen falls on top of whatever we’ve already got, I pray for a slow and steady thaw at some point. The active pattern and eventual potential for a warm, heavy rainstorm spells trouble.

Goes to show we really don’t understand all of the aspects of lake enhancement. LOT emphasized repeatedly on their Q&A yesterday that since this was a “warm storm” from the Pacific they didn’t expect any enhancement from the lake. Yet yesterday’s runs of the HRRR will largely work out close to the lake. This storm was moisture-laiden, could that be playing a role in the lake enhancement? About 11” and counting here.

Seems like the snow got wetter as the storm went on. The stuff early on was decent-ratio. There’s definitely a layer of wet stuff in there.

Here’s where I’m at. Definitely some serious depth. Hope we don’t get a heavy rain on top of this.

9.5” fresh on the driveway. Lake really contributing now.

What a straight up dumping. Snowblower is straining a bit. Hope I don’t bust a belt!

20 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

 

Finally looks like legit winter on the lakefront

5 minutes ago, blue60007 said:

Haven't posted in a while but thought this was a good reason to... just had a loud clap of thunder about 5 minutes ago on the east side of Indy!!! I'm eyeballing about 4 inches on the ground here.

Congrats!

CC shows the rain/snow line dropping south quick in Iowa. Pretty cool looking. Indy about to flip.

Concur on the consistency of what’s fallen. The fresh stuff is blowing off the roof nicely. Feels similar to what fell earlier this week. Not the kind of snow that cakes to street signs.

Still borderline SN here. The sleet lasted all of 20 mins at onset.

Didn’t take long at all. Rippin.