Chicago Storm

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currently, yes.

METAR KORD 302051Z 03006KT 1/4SM R10L/1800V3000FT +SN FZFG VV010 M08/M09 A3036 RMK AO2 SLP295 SNINCR 1/3 P0003 60007 T10781094 55001

walk over here.

SN/+SN for over an hour now at ORD.

Rolling into work on 294 on the SW side of the airport, and it’s rip city.

The headlines in place have high “bust” potential. The WWA will likely “bust” for most areas with the round this morning/afternoon just due to the fact that the higher accumulations will be very localized. For the round between this evening through tomorrow evening, it’s very clear that the best accumulations will be from Downtown/Eastern Cook County on east into northwest Indiana. So, due to how headlines have to be issued, most of the warning will “bust” for much of Cook County.

i think it's common knowledge here that many winter threads will go off the rails at some point with some mi winter weather history or some other back-and-forth. ...which is why it's a running joke.

why would one bitch about others talking current weather?

ready for spc outlooks to be the most confusing thing ever? https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/conditional-intensity-information/

I'd say it's because each wave will be distinct, with a likely break between them. Additionally, the first wave is a guarantee at this point. Though, quality/widespread WWA level snows may not materialize in the end, and may be more localized. The second wave (single plume) is more in question in regards to placement.

a lot of people do, surprisingly/unsurprisingly.

hoosier was kicked from the board, think it was last winter (?).

congrats southern cook and nw indiana?

I’m talking more-so through current time, that it has not been an East Coast pattern thus far. I probably should have been more clear with that. With the pattern expected to relax a bit coming up to end the month and begin February, during that timeframe the East Coast definitely holds the best chance for a bigger event. The pattern looks to shift and re-load deeper into February, bringing more widespread chances of something better. Until then, we’ll probably be in clipper mode, unless a surprise hybrid pops up.

ORD has picked up 8.7" of snow over the past two weeks, thanks to several clippers + LE. It may not seem like a lot, but we are now sitting at average snowfall for the month of January. Other areas in NE IL and the metro have received even more than that (Up by the border & along the lake). Did the East Coast rack up a big snowfall this weekend? Sure, but so did a majority of the subforum. A foot of snow fell 4 hours from here. If it were an East Coast pattern, none of the above would be reality.

Lake effect saved the day... Also, an honorable mention of 5.9" at MDW CO-OP. Final snowfall totals 4.4" - ORD T - RFD …2025/26 Season Snowfall... 28.6" - ORD 23.9" - RFD

ORD snowfall total was 3.5" at noon, but more was added.

the game likely would have been moved, unfortunately.

pats/seahawks.

Some synoptic enhancement right now, but that aside, that's a quality shredded multi-band look that we just don't see on this side of the lake very often.

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This could end up being the most widespread-significant nearly pure multi-band LES events that I can remember on this side of the lake...

The multiple meso-lows of earlier tonight have sort of morphed into a main one now, which is attempting to back towards MKE.

Looks like mixing has gotten further north than anticipated down-state, just south of Carbondale-Harrisburg.