snowman33

Looking at the depth change map, it seems like areas farther north in Wisconsin get screwed more, possibly due to a longer fetch over the warm water. Temps in downtown Chicago when the 1st wave starts are still near/at freezing.

Lakefront peeps like meet the new storm, same as the old storm.

1-3" on the lakefront, rising to 6-10" inland seems like a good bet.

NAM north/amped.

It'll be historic all right... a historic paste job.

12/26/09 is an event that comes to mind that had an extreme gradient through the Chicago metro.

DVN is out to lunch. 18 inches on their graphic.

Something that has been discussed in the past for different storms - could convection in the warm sector lead to a more suppressed solution? SPC has an enhanced risk for tomorrow.

If I was in McHenry County I'd be feeling pretty good right now. In downtown Chicago not so much. Well, we can't say we haven't been through plenty of storms like that.

+SN

By this logic we should do away with all headlines. Could you imagine GHD 1 with no headlines at all? Just "It's Chicago. It's Milwaukee. It's winter. It snows."

Event starts in less than 12 hours. Then we'll see what happens.

Isn't snow/blowing snow and cold wind chills just common winter weather though? You even said it wasn't as significant. Also, don't we have wind chill headlines for this kind of thing? Wouldn't that be easier for the public to understand? Advisory/warning for snow amounts and advisory/warning for wind chills. It's water under the bridge at this point. Just felt the need to state my opinion.

And honestly, it was a typo but I have indeed "lived" in the AFD to an extent by reading it all the time. The headlines are based too heavily on feelings now, that's my complaint. It is called atmospheric science.