ChiTownSnow

Agreed I've been following these forums for 4 or 5 years now and when I first started following, everybody was tracking the big dogs and hyping each model run as if it was God. Then it switched to not trusting the models at all, and now its kind of all over the place.. just an observation

I think it means we're taking the calendar and time of year into consideration

Some of us are looking at what's happening now and not constantly 10 days out. Right now seems pretty normal

Assuming it verifies, i'm ok with 2 days of 50s with cold shots on both sides. I'd rather have that than the opposite

We've hit a low when we are posting barely ice pictures

Yeah..it's not that uncommon to have less than 3 in of snow at this point in time. Even in the years where we had more by now, it's probably 4 in or something really close

We go through this every December... I get that we can pull up statistics about latest snow or least amount of December snow..etc.. but we're generally talking about a few inches as of this time in December for most of us... Slow start yes. But time is on our side so far

Ha.. I wish it was the real Cook county

That's kind of my point.. there's not much that's not useless 240 out unless it's a consistent signal over time. I would have to be consistent in the 150 to 240 range in my opinion.

The corresponding air temperature on the ensemble for that same time period isnt that bad. Honest question: are these maps all driven from the same data set based on model output?

Yeah I didn't look close at ur map.. still 240 out. I don't trust anything over 150.. regardless of how strong of a signal it is

Why do we always trust these maps 240 hours out? We never trust anything else 240 out?

Anybody else excited to lay some snowpack up N And NW? Feed that cold air down! At this point I just want cold for the backyard rink

Let's hope some snow pack helps us out a bit

First flakes of the season right here! that i have seen at least

Hope this repeats itself in December. Would be a good long duration snow

Really wish this current storm repeats in December time frame

He's popular with some because he tells them what they "want" to hear

it better do it quickly

Watch posted

Just catching up these posts.. What a crazy night. I live in Darien along 75th. Just a few blocks from the path..We had enough warning from what happened in Naperville/Woodridge area to get downstairs and truly believe that warning absolutely would have saved lives here if the situation had been worse. Very uneasy/helpless feeling when a tornado is confirmed and heading right for you. Adding that the local sirens are what woke my family and I up and was key. The emergency broadcast on phone was several minutes later but still prior to hit

Northern burbs cash in on this one. This one's yours @McHenrySnow

I'm telling ya.. we need to develop a sports bet app for weather where we can all bet the over/under on the models and compete :). Or bet one model over another. Guarantee the models would get real accurate real soon.

A few pics since we are sharing https://photos.app.goo.gl/n9oN9bFdGoSRiAkY8

I'm satisfied. Bring on spring!