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Getting close to having a decent snow plus lake ehancement in NIL this weekend.

Winter "MCS" szn

In Mequon and it's mod-heavy snow with decent sized dendrites. Definitely getting heavier and windier.

Doesn't mean much, but seems like next week's storm has continued to trend north. Looks like better spacing with this weekends storm. Doesn't look particularly strong tho but something to watch.

That doesn't cover the full storm

Was gonna say I was thankful to be in Milwaukee this weekend, but even that could be to far south

Sure looks like a great opportunity to see the northern lights tomorrow https://x.com/NWSSWPC/status/1988294702827802778?t=oyTOXhCmE28A0p76D7te4w&s=09

Looks like only 2" or so in Avondale lol and snow quality is terrible. Almost like most of the snow is graupel

Some really high DBZ coming ashore now. Likely graupel/hail and more thunder to come

That more or less seems like what LOT just hinted at on Twitter too. Less likely there will be "slight break before a 2nd band". Seems to imply this will be the sole band now. Definitely would boost odds of some higher totals.

Can't remember seeing "snow and a chance of thunderstorms" in a p&c before. Was laughing thinking about nadocast outlining the shore during the event in a forecast, but I'm sure waterspouts are filtered out from forecasts.

Updated "expected" snow maps upped a lot in Illinois to 7" expected in Chicago now. Probably cuz ^ and 18z hrrr.

Definitely seems like today's 12z hi rez models are highlighting the swing of the LE into the IL side for a little. Liking trends, but won't expect it until we see the band on radar. Would be hilarious if the meso low pushes the snow too far west and leaves a gap.

Current forecast for Chicago is LOL worthy.

Not sure if mentioned before, but a great update to https://beta.pivotalweather.com/models/ Much better mobile UI.