Chicago Storm

Best weather day of the month today.

detroit peeps, you alive and alright?

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.

5 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

i work by ord, same turd winter as lakeside

 

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.

29 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

not our year lol

ORD and RFD are above average for snowfall on the season through today.

suck 2 b lakeside.

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

Final event snowfall totals…

ORD - 1.6”
MDW - 1.6”
RFD - 1.5”

8 minutes ago, Chambana said:

Strong El Niño gonna strong El Niño 

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. 

1 minute ago, A-L-E-K said:

trends have been drier today

sad

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.


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7 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

Pattern change was a bust

Zzzzzz

sucks 2 b u.

3 hours ago, ChiTownSnow said:

Models kicking out a few tenths of an inch (0.01 to 0.1) of precip over N IL tonight.  I assume would be very high ratios.  

3 hours ago, Baum said:

VERY HIGH SNOW:LIQUID RATIOS, LIKELY IN THE 20-30:1  
RANGE. -LOT AFD

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.


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14 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

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


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10 minutes ago, andyhb said:

Returns blossoming on KDVN again as the deformation zone starts to crank. They might pull off some huge totals.

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.


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