IowaStorm05

I’m not a meteo, but I measure the open areas, and adjust on account of the drifts. It has kept snowing longer than I thought and willi is over 9” now at the River.

This photo belongs on Wikipedia for the article to be written for this storm in history. SERIOUSLY

And I believe I’ve developed a mild cold

Damn that’s hot !

Calling 7.75” here. There are drifts of about a foot or more, and exposed areas of 5-6”. Stuff seems to be tapering off now. I can’t really quite call it a “bust”, more like we just ended up low-balled.

I’ll bet we did. Cuz we very swiftly reached 4 inches before I fell asleep. It had to have ripped since and we only had about 6-8” when I woke

The door I used to exit is blocked. Eyeballing at least 8 inches out there but I’ll do a better measurement in a bit still snowing in earnest... I don’t know but I’m assuming it never changed over or mixed yet which surprised me after last nites radar

Eyeballing 4 inches, steady moderate snowfall. No sign of sleet attm

It’s the current location of the low and tongue of warm air I guess, looking at the radar, it’s northward push is to the west of us still

I feel like unless the low actually shoots East, If it’s northeastward climb continues as is, that sleet is going to climb right up well into SNE, and fast. !!

Speaking of.... mmmm.... Chelo’s.

Radar really filling in nicely south of us. Last I checked we had quickly reached 2 inches... betting it’s close to 3 at this point here in willi. Imma go outside in 35 minutes or so.

Des Moines is tough to describe. It’s overall flattish but in reality it’s long undulating slight down and up, like you might go from 800 feet to 900 feet over a mile of distance and back again. Des Moines Is at about 850-900 feet average elevation if I recall, and there is Sherman Hill, which is the highest near downtown. It might be 150 feet higher than the surrounding area. western Iowa is in the lower extent and easternmost extent of the true Great Plains and is as much as 1600 feet in the northwest corner, and is 1/4 drier than southeastern Iowa, which is maybe 500 feet and greener/wetter and is not considered Great Plains so much

Snow has turned heavy

I sent the photo to my dad then did a screenshot of the photo in the message. That did the trick

Willimantic. It’s snowing light-to-moderate and a solid covering maybe at 1/2 inch

That’s cool, I’ve also done moves based on snowfall like that, I had the family move to high foothills in Reno JUST BECAUSE 5000 feet elevation gets way way more snow than, say, East Sparks at 4400. Rain shadow and temps

In the past I thought only massive mountains could do that sort of thing, IE Sierra Nevada. But no even 200-300 hills can make a difference.

I’m not going to Cher details in the name of protecting the citizens.

I’m not 16 anymore lol. But I actually did that a number of times when I was 16, at the behest of a female friend. It was really really dumb.

Because yea it is snowing but I saw convective looking blobs and holes in precip approaching NYC on radar, lifting north. Made me sketch out

It still is going to take a right turn and shoot eastward then?

Paranoid about dry slotting on radar or at least holes in precip..

Couple of tiny flakes appearing