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It’s about to snow it’s ass off.

Nothing yet. But the band is shifting slowly this way. Could end up with half a foot before it shifts back to the west.

We’re getting some unofficial reports in our newsroom of 2 feet of snow in Michigan City. 19” in New Buffalo.

Neat to see the lake effect band setting up as the system snow moves through.

The HRRR scoots the lake effect band further toward South Bend Friday afternoon/evening before shifting back west. Would cut down on huge totals in any one location but "spread the wealth" over a slightly wider area.

At this point thinking 1-2” from the system tonight. We’ll see how much the lake effect wobbles east. WSW calls for 4-8” in South Bend.

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Picked up 2.7” overnight from round one. Now have an 8” snow depth. That lake effect band is going to mean business. I’m supposed to travel to the Chicago suburbs Friday night to be at a funeral on Saturday morning. It’s going to be an interesting trek through LaPorte County.

IWX hoists Winter Storm Watch for several counties for the lake-effect. I suspect LOT will do the same for at least Porter County. IWX says Northern LaPorte and Southwest Berrien Counties are favored to see at least a foot of snow.

Anecdotally, I've found it's hard for the globals sometimes to pick up on significant lake-effect signals and both GFS and Euro are spitting out 10+ inches in the Porter/LaPorte County areas for Firday. When it gets into range, the HRRR is gonna spit out like 30" totals if the band stays somewhat stationary lol

February will be rockin’.

Decent single-band lake response somewhere in NW IN into N IN/SW MI, too.

Calling it a storm total of 6.8”. The lake saved this one for me. There are two clear layers of snow: 3” of hard, frozen snow underneath about 4” of fluff.

There’s a real good LE Band setting up south of South Bend. Hopefully it drifts north before weakening. I’ve been working all day so I have no idea how much has accumulated.

Lake enhanced snow is dumping across N IN and W MI. I’m eyeballing about 5” on the ground now.

Losing some snow accumulation to warm temps tonight. In the plus side that should melt snow off of the tree branches before the high winds move in limiting power outages.

Up to 3.6”. Surpasses Halloween for biggest snowfall of the season. Getting dry slotted now. Hoping we can hit 6” when all is said and done.

It's really snowing now. Even though it's 34 degrees it's accumulating nicely. Up to 2.75". Should start to pile up as it gets darker and colder.

Mostly rain now. Waiting for dynamic cooling to switch everything back to snow. Just read the IWX afd and it looks like they at least discussed a blizzard warning for Berrien County overnight but never outright say it. One other area of interest on winds will be mixing heights increasing and entering Berrien County early Saturday morning, but low level winds look to drop off there as the low level MSLP center moves through there. As we couple the falling/already fallen snow across the area, there is a chance that we see 35+ mph and visibility less than 1/2 mile in these spots. The question will be, can we get 3 straight hours of these conditions, which is fairly difficult around here. So, have decided to put wording into the already existing headlines to indicate that. Power outages with could occur with the pasty snow and strong wind. With these conditions and the already fallen/falling snow, N-S roadways will likely have blowing and drifting tonight providing hazardous driving. The blowing and drifting snow in addition to the increasing winds will also look to decrease the visibility also making it a tough drive tonight into Saturday morning.

Unofficially 2" at work. Went back to all snow and it's accumulating efficiently again.

Getting a rain/snow mix at times. I think we're around 2" but I'll go measure a little later. HRRR seems to be handling things well in this area. If it continues to be right we should end up with another 2-3" before the dry slot moves in for a short time tonight. Then the wraparound should be fun overnight.

Closing in on 2”. Temp is 32 at the house. 33 at the airport. Getting some compaction issues with accumulation. Ratios are probably terrible. I think I felt some sleet mixing in while cleaning off the car.

Rip city. Winds gusting to near 40.

About an inch on the ground. Winds gusting to 30. Watching the radar fill in to the south. Just need it to stay snow all day!