Malacka11

A lot of people on here have been getting very pessimistic over the possibility of our pattern change dissapearing. For those of you who don't monitor it, here's a bit from LOT's forecast discussion: It`s not currently in the forecast grids, but with the above normal height and thermal profile pattern in place, can`t rule out fog and stratus formation at times in the Monday-Tuesday timeframe as well as strong inversions will form at night. Finally, signs are pointing to a return of a -EPO in the northeast Pacific late next week into the weekend before Christmas, so expect a normal to below normal temperature regime in time for Christmas. As far as chances for a white Christmas...stay tuned. Castro

I know it's been a day since you made this post, but out of general curiousity, what indications favor this occurring?

Nothing, hopefully /s

As the garden type variety of snow fan whose forecasting abilities are that of whatever shows up as green and blue on tropical tidbits, I'm flabbergasted. I can't decide if this is an elaborate joke or if it may actually be a thing, simply because "hopefully it's stronger than 1978" is not a common phrase, and we're so far out still.. my mind is swirling with the possibility. This IS my green brownie

On the bright side, it'll give us two things to look forward to...

My thoughts exactly.

I'd take it

Good times, the 300+ hours are

Especially since we celebrate Christmas on the 24th... I'd pay money for this to happen.

Watching from up in Illinois Best of luck to you all, may the snow be ever in your favor.

Right now it looks like we'll have a pretty active end of the month, unless I'm mistaken.

The 13th-15th system looks interesting. Too bad it's still this far out

I know I'm really not one to talk with my all-things-considered good start to the season, but the only thing I hope for is that it doesn't rain for Christmas. Don't care if it isn't white outside (I'd appreciate it, but let's be real here) but as long as it doesn't pour all day or some garbage, I'm happy. Any other day is fine, just not on Christmas.

I know people don't really like the ICON too much but it's also brought the track of said storm down into northern/central Illinois (but also weaker)

I have to admit, though I'd love another big storm to affect the area (keeping in mind Sunday's storm only dropped roughly half as much as predicted IMBY- not that I'm complaining, just saying there's still room for improvement in future storms) right now, what I'd love the most is a really active clipper pattern where we get an inch or two of light snow every other day for like a week straight. Last time we really had something like that going, if I recall correctly, was back in 2013-2014- at least for any extended period of time. Big blizzards are exciting to forecast, but there's something beautiful about a clipper pattern... It's so much more relaxed, so much more room for error.

Oof. Thanks

So... any luck with the Euro? If so, what does it have to say about the 4th (Just for fun, obviously this a while out still)?

Huh.

Looking outside, you can still see the outline of the sidewalk and all. We have at least four inches of snow on the ground, but I swear way more than that must have fallen already. Need to look around tomorrow, but I imagine it's drifting about quite a bit.

My friend down the road lost power a little bit ago

About 3" here in Aurora, and it's going hard as ever. I think we can rake up a lot more at this rate

Thanks for that ^ Ah well, can't hurt to aim big at this point

I think 9 inches is a reasonable total to hope for in Aurora. Exceeding that three-inch mark is proving easy

Got almost and inch in like twenty minutes. This is pretty crazy.

As if on cue, it starts snowing.