It’s been snowing, but nothing too major. Still seeing some patches of sidewalk. Hoping that 1-5pm period is the high point that it’s advertised to be.
LOT’s recent graphics. The solid gold bordered snow block from midnight to 6pm tomorrow for Rockford area has me excited as a snow enthusiast.
It also has me slightly concerned as the snow removal guy for both my house & my in-laws next door. P&C from LOT has the wide range of 7-15 potential inches.
Quadrant #4 represent!
If this were to pan out (or even potentially change for the “worse,” it’s a tough decision on whether or not I should go to work tomorrow afternoon.
00z NAM:
Snow output in N IL weirdly spotty with 6 in Kane & DeKalb county but only 3-4 north of that.
The low tracked through the middle of lower Wisconsin.
After looking at the 6z GFS, that’s back to back runs of 30+ inches at ORD in the next 8 days. If the 12z does the same, that’s “officially” a streak. Let’s go for it!
Fox Chicago’s Mike Caplan mentioned in a livestream today that a special mission was conducted to retrieve data from the storm before it makes landfall. Also, that data is supposed to begin appearing in the 00z model suite.