Chicago Storm

yea, that really inflates things now. i was looking back at ghd1 and ghd2 recently. neither had a single shift over 20 speci.

Aircraft induced snowfall stat-padding yesterday, with 0.1" at ORD... …2025/26 Season Snowfall... 31.3" - ORD 24.0" - RFD

that dude/page is literally the worst thing out there, by far.

solid. that 27 by the swo a week or so ago is the highest anyone can recall for here.

billy madison accomplished that feat a week or so ago. i had 25 and the swo had 27.

it seems to be within the realm of possibility.

precision is the name of the game on this end. sadly, i’ve never eclipsed 3” of snow on a given shift.

an excerpt from this mornings lot afd. this is the same guy that went deep weenie the one shift prior to the nov les event. what he mentioned in the below afd is flat out dumb to say, especially since it’s simply not true. it seems very clear that she should not be in the position of work that he is in. in other words, not in an important nws roll. /rant “JUST HAVE TO NOTE... IF WE WEREN'T DEALING WITH DRY LOW-LEVEL AIR PROBLEMS THIS MORNING, THE AXIS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE LIKE 6 TO 12 INCHES (IF NOT MORE) OF SNOW. THESE NARROW CONVECTIVE SNOW BAND EVENTS ARE THE WINTERTIME EQUIVALENT OF SUMMERTIME TRAINING THUNDERSTORM EVENTS, AND CAN JUST HAMMER THE SAME AREA ALL DAY/NIGHT LEADING TO VERY PRONOUNCED IMPACTS. SO, THANK YOU DRY AIR.”

ORD ended up with 2.6" of snow as a result of the LES event on Friday... …2025/26 Season Snowfall... 31.2" - ORD 24.0" - RFD

Random stat alert... For the first time since the winter of 1978/79, Chicago has had average or above average snowfall in each month (Nov-Dec-Jan).

I’d put the number around 50%, in terms of ENS showing an actual SSWE.

most definitely is.

window for better/bigger storm potential incoming.

definitely.

in the real world, the short full on east coast window failed. carolina’s ftw, though.

METAR KORD 302151Z 04014KT 3SM R10L/3500VP6000FT -SN BR OVC015 M08/M12 A3037 RMK AO2 SLP299 SNINCR 1/4 P0002 T10781117

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/