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Looking like SGF will not get above 0 today. Simply incredible.

Supply and demand issue more than anything.

Local news just confirmed that springfield has started rolling blackouts. They are on their own power company, but I assume the rest of the region will be following suit.

More outages now. Looks like parts of Springfield are starting to go down now based on the City utility website.

Seeing some reports that NE Oklahoma is going to start rolling blackouts this afternoon. Edit: Miami is without power now. Hopefully unrelated, A large portion of republic is also without power currently.

Deep snow pack, arctic air, and clearing skies, how low can we go?

Radar continues to improve.

The main band starting to move into Joplin is starting to become very well defined. From Joplin to Norman and points SE from there, there is a ton of snow on radar. Motion of that snow is to the NE, with the western edge of the snow appearing to be crawling east with time. I don't see how this doesn't end up as a solid event for most of us in SW Mo and NW Ar.

I know Wx24/7 well. There's another long time lurker here from Monett as well, who needs to make an account. Speaking of which, they both just texted me that SGF finally a pulled the trigger. Warning up now for an additional 3-6. That should give you all down that way some hope.

Yep, 2013.

Yep. I lived in Monett until I went to college, now we live in republic.

Yeah, roughly 10 miles south west. Its really hard to say how much we have. The grass is just now getting covered, so maybe around 2". Moderate snow currently falling.

If you ask me, we are performing well in spite of the synoptic set up.

To be fair, the storm is at worst half over. If the NAM and some other high res models are correct, its really only 1/3 over.

Jeff Piotrowski is live on twitter, sounds like there are some really nasty wrecks on I-44 in OKC. He is on the scene of the truck fire that I think was mentioned in this thread, but it sounds like there is also a different incident on going on I-44 as well. He described it as a large chain reaction wreck. Multiple 18 wheelers. Hopefully this is nothing like Dallas.

Regardless of what is going on with surrounding forecast areas, I think the current SGF forecast warrants an upgrade. I would guess people under the band from Joplin towards Columbia end up with several areas over 6”.

It’s just a vastly different forecast than surrounding offices. I don’t see how places in SE Kansas who already have ~3” on the ground and as of 1, ICT was calling for an additional 5-8”, yet here, were only supposed to get 4-6” total? Maybe SGF is right with their forecast, but I still think it warrants an upgrade. I don’t think it’s a set rule that under certain circumstances you can’t upgrade for less than 6”. Given temps, wind chill, blowing snow, and at a minimum 4-6” totals, I don’t see any justification for not upgrading.

SGF is just trolling us at this point. The warnings now extend well north of us to the east and west, but SGF appears to not be willing to give in.

Rates are going to have to pick up for sure. Been snowing for about two hours, and the grass isn’t much more covered than it was three hours ago.

Come on SGF!!

Wasn’t necessarily saying mike went to OU, just saying that I would think a news station in the OKC metro could do better with Ou being there.

I still don’t know how mike Morgan has a job in the OKC market. So many good mets coming out of OU, one would think they could do better than Morgan. He’s incredibly entertaining to listen to, but he’s a hype machine.

Local news just showed a model showing Springfield getting close to 9, I could make that work

Yes. Different criteria. SW Mo requires 6+, Arkansas requires 4.

Also mention that the ozarks could remain dry during the second storm.