McHenrySnow

I'm down for a defo band at night. Snow during the day in mid-March is not ideal.

EURO south. lol

Some of the best flakes I've seen all winter, hands down. At least March won't go down snowless....

I'd be very concerned if I lived in Wisconsin because they've yet to get any of the snow you've predicted over the past month.

Snowing very nicely here now. Was starting to get my hopes up for Sunday/Monday, but the 12z runs have dashed those hopes.

Welp, that was fun for the few runs it last. Congrats MSP.

At least it was south of Kankakee and, aside from Aroma Park, a lot of farmland ahead thankfully.

Turned off?!

Yeah, this past 24 hours has been very typical of spring in NE IL. I know most people hate it, but I love it. Would love a good storm, but must say owning my own home makes me want to experience severe weather (aside from snow, of course) much less. I knew the lake would protect us as it normally does, which isn't a bad thing. I'll be watching the radar and any lives further south while being safe and sound up here.

39.6° here. I'm wondering if it'll even rain here.

The 2015 storm I'm talking about was in November, before Thanksgiving. The one you highlight was the last widespread "big dog" across all of Chicagoland. The 2018 fun was a couple separate storms as I recall. I just know I was miserable in Mexico and my husband getting pissed at me over it b/c I kept looking at models and radars and complaining I wasn't there. Sad, I know.

Yeah, I didn't mention it because the city really got screwed on that one. It was the rare recent storm where the NW won out. That was a heartbreak for the city - models literally changed drastically as the storm was ongoing and it cut further north.

"quite a few" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. you did get a lot of LES a few winters ago in that one storm that missed the NW burbs and you got lucky again this year in a similar setup, and we all got a good snow in November last year, but I honestly don't recall a single other "big dog." of course, i don't know what your criteria for that wording is, but imo, it has to be double digits. I do recall 16-17 being a miserable, practically non-existent winter after the first two weeks of December. I also remember getting screwed in 2015 by the warm lake in the November storm where O'hare still managed 11" - of course, that is over a decade ago at this point (hard to fathom tbh). Edit: Just remembered February 2018 was rocking for a week, while I was in Mexico. smdh.

And ftr, I do realize my data set is very limited, so not making huge extrapolations off of 5 years, just generally commenting on what has happened thus far.

I've lived here for 5 winters now and we only cracked 30" twice even though our season average is roughly 37" give or take. While climate change can mean bigger storms, it also means warmer weather and I assume it's only going to get more difficult year after year to get the right combination. I would not be surprised to see the average snowfall for this decade fall several inches, unless something extreme happens in the remaining 3. 1 of which will be an El Nino. I'm also concerned by how dry it has been the majority of time I've lived here. Lived in the city proper prior, and don't honestly remember how wet/dry it was b/c I didn't have a yard or plants that needed watered. Since moving here, it has seemed the city has gotten some extreme rainfall events that were relatively localized and didn't affect us up here. I'm guessing heat island has something to do with that. While it's overall very depressing as a lover of all things winter, the extreme weather events will at least be exciting (unless/until they destroy my house). Didn't plan on going all Day After Tomorrow on you.......

A majority of the country is at least abnormally dry. Most systems dry up the closer they get to reality.

You really got to laugh at this point (or cry, no judgment). The band had been pretty centered on the northern row of IL counties up until the northward shift started yesterday. So now it's most likely zero precip here for the first two waves, with one going north and the other south (b/c that one won't shift north, I'm sure). Regardless, looks like we SHOULD get some good rain next week, which is sorely needed. I just hope it doesn't start drying up the closer we get, which has generally been a trend for us for a while now. Looks like the winter that started with a roar ended up below average precip and snow and above average temperatures. I just wish I'd appreciated the November storm even more (not sure if it's possible, tbh) since that and the follow up the first week in December were the only good snows of the season here. I really need to see if I can get therapy or medication or something to get rid of this sick snow obsession I have, because it only ends up in heartbreak.

"Meteorological winter" isn't real.

November for me. lol

You said weather, I said climate.

The climate humans have created is not cyclical.

Someone SE of Providence MUST have gotten 40".

Yeah, lots not start new threads until the first flakes are falling (I'm mostly serious, ftr).

Yeah, and this week was a southern WI banger.