TheClimateChanger

What an incredible winter so far. It may be a LONG time before we see another winter off to such a fast start. I was looking at some numbers... Columbus and Dayton, Ohio have both registered more snow through today's date than every other winter since 1996, except for 2014. And at Dayton, only two winters since 1978 have seen more snowfall through today's date (1996 & 2014)! Not as impressive, but still noteworthy, Cleveland and Detroit have recorded more snowfall through today's date than every winter since 2006, with the exception of 2009 & 2014.

With this most recent storm, Columbus has now recorded more snow through today's date than every winter since 1996, except for 2014! We literally may never see another winter like this in our lifetime. Note rankings below are for the airport site only.

That's the jackpot. You can get snow effect snow from any wind direction.

Lol, I saw that and it makes zero sense. There is in fact snow cover over eastern Kentucky and West Virginia - that's typical upslope snow from there south into E TN/ W NC. The satellite imagery isn't blue there, because there's overcast skies. If anything, it looks like the snow cover is suppressing clouds. Maybe the differential heating is contributing to the cumulus buildup south of the snowpack, but that's not the same process as lake effect snow. The flurries on radar earlier are clearly from a weak "disturbance" that moved in from Arkansas.

Not sure about that. I think the official numbers come from the ASOS, except for snowfall. Although they could be adjusted perhaps if there's an undercount? I know Denver used to measure snowfall at the former Stapleton Airport, even though official records were taken at DIA so there could be fairly large discontinuity between the precipitation and snowfall.

Snow depth is recorded at 7 am each day, so it won’t reflect the snow that fell after.

Heard Toronto set a new snowfall record today?

Some of the heaviest snow yet here!

I'm glad in the ensuing 16 years, we've stopped this trend of snowstorm names. But if we were to name this one, what do you think it should be? Snowpocalypse?

Crazy drifts out there. Trampoline ringed by 2-4 foot drifts, drifts up to the top of my retaining wall in spots.

Hopefully some moisture gets stuck in western Pennsylvania and it continues snowing longer than expected. I know a lot of times we're dealing with mix and dry slots, but a surprising amount of snow comes after the storm moves away and it gets us near the forecast anyways. Obviously not dealing with either today, but hopefully we still benefit from that scenario.

Wow, 2" per hour for another 3 hours would take us WAY over a foot already.

9 1/8" so far (on my table). Could be an undercount due to blowing and drifting.

Update here. Haven't measured but looks like at least 9 inches so far. Maybe 10-12?

Any concern about these very heavy returns? What does radar correlation coefficient show?

"Snow increasing rapidly" with the amount of snow fallen over the last hour (1"+ only) and the amount now on the ground. PIT's official snow measurements are taken at the NWS office, so I've never seen that remark added.

And at Canton/Akron Airport: METAR KCAK 251251Z 08013KT 1/2SM R23/4000V4500FT SN FZFG VV009 M12/M14 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP194 SNINCR 1/4 P0005 T11221144 $

Here's one from the latest METAR at YNG: METAR KYNG 251251Z 09011KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV010 M12/M14 A3008 RMK AO2 PRESFR SLP212 SNINCR 1/3 P0006 T11221144 RVRNO $

Sucks that they don't take snowfall obs at the airport so we can't get the coveted "SNINCR 1/X" remarks in the METAR.