tuanis

Thread would be bumpin just a few weeks ago

Topped it off as the arctic front was blowing in

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

Cool little feature. Damn we’re all so thirsty in here.

Based on regional radar sure looks like the accumulating stuff will fall in southern WI. Not like it'll amount to much up there either.

Is that all bamboo?

It’s all big fatty flakes over here. Sun’s about to pop out.

It's really been coming down the past 25 minutes or so. Not amounting to much with the warm-ish temps, but lake effect does look sweet when it's falling. It's too bad these bands are typically so transient on this side of the lake.

Driveway coated here already. Intensity comes and goes but at times it ain’t bad at all.