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1 minute ago, Baum said:

stared at snow in the lights for hours as a kid. Best Christmas gift at 5 was a weather radio. checked out every tornado/hurricane book in the library in grade school-at once. They came looking for me. By college I was calling and talking to skilling about every incoming storm. Dude, took about every call. By early adulthood I despised the late great Jerry Taft and his 1-3" storm calls....than the internet came and I discovered this chaotic lunacy.

Those must be some good memories to have of talking to Skilling personally. Sounds like he's a great guy. I feel like I certainly missed out on the heyday of weather fanaticism but at least I'm here now even if things are a lot quieter than they were. 

2 minutes ago, Baum said:

I'm figuring 6" easy. Not going to sweat it. In RC I trust.

That's where I'm at too. If I can get the night wfh that would be a win for me. 

2 minutes ago, CoalCityWxMan said:

I think you have to be to thoroughly (obsessively) enjoy weather like we do

For real. I was playing Storm Chaser on the playground in first grade with my friends... Idk when I started caring about winter weather too but now it's honestly my favorite. Can't really justify chasing quite yet after I got myself hit last year so this is all I've got. It had better fucking snow tomorrow.

1 minute ago, Baum said:

obv looking for a laugh, but heck it could be cloudy  and 35 like the last 30 days. And of course, if this is your hobby my assertion is correct.

You're right, we're definitely all a little neurodivergent in here 

Just now, Baum said:

you people are nuts.

Why 

2 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Love having a huge storm incoming that we will basically have to nowcast.

Fr I like your call of 8ish but this is so silly again, I was hoping for a slam dunk kind of situation just once. Oh well, unless things go super north and warm after all I think we're in a better spot than the majority of posters here sooo

Feel like this storm might do even more tree damage than normal because of the way residual snow is sticking around. The wet nature of the last snow and melting and freezing over the last two nights has formed these little ice lumps covering everything, frozen on tight. 

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12 minutes ago, michaelmantis said:

My location on the NAM map you posted. Talk about the teeny-tinesy screw hole imaginable...

I'm going to try to forget about this thing until the afternoon AFDs. 

That's actually a local maximum. The blues over the lake are the lower end. Not that it makes the overall map any better lol

6 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

If anyone has specific LOT centric questions on forecast stuff from today, ask away and I'll try to reply a bit later.

Apologies for the lack of a more in depth meteorological dissertation in the AFD lol - just less and less time available for us on days like this.

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What is your personal take on ratios in the farther outlying suburbs around the city? 

Just now, A-L-E-K said:

0z nam will be a chicago crusher, u can tell

Never any doubt, our CAM moment will come

We all know how this game works everything is proceeding as well as one can expect other than the shit ratios overall.

12 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

My favorite thing in the world is these random twitter thread posted here with minimal explanation as to how they would modify sensible weather in the midwest. 

Chat GPT posting habits (I know my posts are also low value but bruh)

I imagine tonight's LOT forecast discussion -and hopefully many of them in the next few days if we can stay on course- will be save worthy. 

Another banger run of the Euro. Absolute JDAM missile for Chicago. 

That uh... 00z GEFS anyone?

2 minutes ago, mimillman said:

At hour 48 on the GFS. Heights are more amped ahead of the low, which is also deeper. SE ridge is more pronounced and trough is digging deeper. This is coming west this run

Reading this was soothing to my soul

7 minutes ago, mimillman said:

I don’t think we’ve had a double digit storm in the city proper since 2015

Wasn't there a big lake effect event a few years back? Remember Alek posting some pretty swag pictures. That was literally only the lakefront though if I remember right. IMBY the last snow worth a damn was in 2021, like 10 inches of concrete. 

2 minutes ago, mimillman said:

Sorry, what do you mean “too”

Yeah for real... I'll take what I can get at the end of the day but the line kind of broke on this last one. Certainly can't be held against us.

RGEM comes in east. the mystery deepens. Even so, it's a good 6"+ across N IL at 10:1 so hardly disappointing 

Sadly, flake size is cheeks again right now despite steady rates for the last two hours. Hopefully I can rack up another hour or two of better rates at some point. 

4 minutes ago, Cary67 said:

I thought it was way NW with today's system at long range before correcting back SE in later runs

It was actually SE the previous run comparatively so it's just picking up on the trend properly 

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

EPS v GEFS shaping up to be an all-time model rumble considering just a few days out now

I know it doesn't mean jack diddly but wasn't the current storm also Euro NW and GFS SE by a bit and then the GFS trended into agreement? Or am I IIRCing wrong

Transitioned from rain to dookie snow to now decent snow again. Would be nice to keep it this way for a while. 

On some real shit the Euro, ICON and Ukie all show a very similar outcome. CMC in between a bit, GFS also just a bit of a NW trend from at least a good storm in NIL if not a mega bomb.

Roll with it the king is back stfu don't listen to the voices get out of my head