Chicago Storm

i've been waiting for a quality beavis meltdown this winter. took a week of fog, rain, and rapid snow melt in the wake of our usual two weeks of winter to make it happen, but here we are.

Ended up being fairly uneventful around here. The ground (Roads/sidewalks/etc) glazed up, due to the residual effects of the recent cold. However, ice didn't accumulate on any other surface, due to marginal temperatures and dew points.

Will be interesting to see how the mixed p-types work out for this one. These events on the heels of a solid period of cold usually have some surprises. We'll see if this one does...

alek has turned into beavis-lite. hate to see it.

bad take. ORD finished slightly above normal in snowfall for Oct and Nov, and will now do the same for Jan. obviously it has been a torch temp wise until the past week or so, but snowfall wise it is as expected.

ORD and RFD are above average for snowfall on the season through today. suck 2 b lakeside.

I almost went out that way to “chase” the LES. Guess I should have.

Final event snowfall totals… ORD - 1.6” MDW - 1.6” RFD - 1.5”

has nothing to do with the pixie dust fest, if that's what you're trying to insinuate.

A disturbance and FGEN brought a bit of snow to the area last night... ORD 0.3" MDW 0.4" RFD 0.4"

really dawg... little desperate now.

It was a long road, but we finally have an official SSWE on our hands... The first period of significant warming in late December and early January, which missed SSWE "criteria", was a significant driving force in the recent/current wintry pattern. This secondary period of significant warming and actual SSWE could lead to a period of interest as we hit the very end of January and head into February.

Quite the opposite, actually. GFS, Euro and GEM (Excluding the LE) are all the wettest they have been for Thur/Fri.

Given it’s originating from up around Seattle (Pac NW/BC), it’s more of a hybrid type of deal and not a clipper. Might want to puts some dates in the title too.

It's cold, but nothing really record breaking. So fairly zzzzz overall.

Dusted Saturday evening/night around here, with a few tenths of snowfall accumulation. 0.2” at ORD, T at MDW, and 0.5” at RFD.

Just heard one of those frost quakes/cryoseisms a bit ago. .

sucks 2 b u.

Should be able to kick out 0.5" to 2" area wide.

Final storm snowfall totals…ORD - 6.9”MDW - 5.8”RFD - 7.3”

Backsides snows moving through the area tonight. It won’t last all that long, but down to 1/2SM with SN here at home. .

For MLI this already ranks in the top 10 in terms of biggest snowfalls on record, right around the edge of the top 5 currently.

MLI is up to 14.7” and DVN is up to 13.6” as of 6PM. .

The lake had nothing to do with the track of either storm system. The lake is also not the main reason for the warm intrusion with each storm system either, that's more-so a storm track issue and a lack of antecedent quality cold air issue. Yes, the lake is making things worse in the metro/NE Illinois, but for both storm systems temperatures have even gotten into the mid-30's across much of N Illinois/S Wisconsin...and E Iowa with the first one earlier in the week.

One big difference in the evolution of this storm system that we are seeing is how the double-barrel SLP/inverted trough feature has played out. Most guidance, as recently as the 0z runs last evening, had the southern SLP becoming dominated as things transitioned across Illinois and Indiana. Instead, we have seen the northern SLP be the dominant one, thus leading to everything having been shifted a bit north so far out this way. As we continue on, it does look like the transition to a most eastern dominant SLP will occur as things continue up into Michigan.