Malacka11

That's my fear too. Just enough to dust everything is satisfactory in my book.

Shit, I would be giddy with a wind-whipled inch, let alone two, to freshen things up again real quick before the hard freeze. I'd take that and runnn

Looks like if we're lucky, maybe someone gets a chance at squeezing something out of a clipperish thang next Thursdayish. Hopefully no mixing issues with that

Unless I'm missing something, precip looks to end mostly around here within the next two hours. Maybe some backside snow overnight, and it's a wrap. It's nice that the morning thump actually delivered; it's the only thing keeping this storm from being an L instead of just an L.

Same but it gives me hope, likely misplaced ofc

Is the changeover being shown down south legit or just a blip?

I'll take what you're selling gladly but I'm a little skeptical of much accumulation later

Drizzling slightly over here. If whatever precip does develop overhead falls as not rain that'd be great

I mean in a twisted sort of way I suppose it's our revenge no

Precip starting to blossom rather rapidly downstream. Would be nice to fill in the hole, maybe keep some snow going for a little while longer. The western dry edge has reached us now but there's some impressive stuff a little south that might be trying to veer off just long enough to clip us again. Winds are still strong, you know the house crunching shakey type.

I'm no expert but it looks like the dry spot is already starting to saturate a bit

Winds are absolutely howling here

Closing in on 4" over here

Idk how later in the day will go but I have not experienced a snow that feels like this since probably GHD I? Like you know when you look out the window and it's not just that it's snowing hard, it's literally like a Rottweiler on sarms is grinning back at you?

Got up all hyped to look at these weenie returns out the window but my window is literally covered in snow. Looks wild though. If it could just do this for the next 18 hours that would be swag

The old Gyro is back SE

From LOT .UPDATE... Issued at 955 PM CST Thu Jan 11 2024 The winter storm is now on our doorstep this evening as we continue to monitor upstream trends. Impressive dynamics over a large footprint across the central CONUS are becoming evident via radar and satellite imagery with a blossoming baroclinic leaf across the MO/mid-MS valleys and rapidly developing convection across OK/AR. The congealing area of both custers of upstream convection will align well with substantial moisture transport and deep isentropic ascent into the CWA concurrent with a contracting low to mid-level baroclinic zone late tonight into mid-morning Friday. A resulting impressive F-Gen signal with slowing northward extent combined with 7C/km 700-400 hPa lapse rates yields some concern that 1-2"/hr snowfall will become common within the precip shield well into Friday morning. The embedded convective elements within the precip shield (and perhaps a stray rumble of thunder south of the Chicago metro) supports increasing forecast snowfall totals through at least late morning Friday. The incoming 00Z CAM suite is in surprisingly good agreement that 1hr QPF rates will reach 0.1-0.2" per hour for several hours into the Chicago metro between 4-9am. Even with SLR values potentially as low as 5-7:1, snowfall totals of 3-5" of very wet snow would not be surprising in just a few hours. No changes to headlines were made with the updates as the bulk of increase in the snowfall forecast is within the ongoing Winter Storm Warnings. But we will continue to highlight the potentially very hazardous morning commute across all of northern Illinois and especially within the Chicago metro. Kluber

Not that it means shit but love the rain/snow line crashing south run to run on the HRRR. Did that last time too ofc

Pics or it didn't happen

I'm all in. I actually never left lol I was just chillin in the back under the pong table. Does that mean I owe you like a week's rent?

A lot of CAMs seem to feature a pretty strong band on the very tail end of the storm, wonder how that would be with strong winds and the cold rushing in.

The old Tornado Intercept Shitbox and I had quite the time in the slush the other day. Tomorrow will give me a run for my money...

@Stebo is your guy to ask but unless this thing flops like a fish there's no way you wouldn't at least be delayed substantially I would think

Got that "calm before the storm" vibe going on out there

What's your take on how far north the warmth pushes thereafter, if you don't mind?