LakeEffectOH

I think the 2nd half of Feb well into March will be the best part of this winter. Unfortunately, it is also the end part of this winter. Hopefully our luck will change.

...Pretty ugly, ECM ensembles (0z) showing another major storm for mid atl to sne towards the end. Another storm to our west...For the most part, the NEOH snowstorm shield holds strong as it has since Feb. 2013.

I hope so. Except for GHD II last year, we've been missed by not only conventional snowstorms but clippers too. We've been on a pretty unlucky streak since 2012-2013. Not counting 2011-12 because the entire lower 48 got shafted.

NEOH, thanks for the report! It will be interesting when I get home. Here in Solon, I'd say there's 3-4".

I'm wondering when we will get a good synoptic storm. So far this year, CLE has had 7.8"...ugh! I consider myself very fortunate for getting hit hard, but I feel bad for the rest of the region as snow totals are for crap. February into March looks promising as the longer range models (except for the torchy CFS...surprise! surprise!) are pumping a PNA ridge and hinting of a return to at least a -AO after the modeled early Feb. thaw.

Let me know how it is there. Left Chesterland at 7:30am today and the radar was showing heavy snow sitting over there all morning. I'm anxious to know how much is actually up there.

I picked up over 20" in the last couple of days!!

When the winds go over 290, the LES event becomes kind of a meh event. 290+ NW events are better for the I-80 corridor.

From 12/2/2005 - 12/4/2005, I remember a LES event that involved a persistent band that actually originated over Superior then made a right turn, crossed the length of Huron...across Erie into NEOH. Chardon picked up 27" from that one, I got around 2 feet. As far as Cuyahoga County went...I worked in Solon then and Solon had somewhere between 15 and 20 inches. 15"+ snowfall totals over the eastern quarter of Cuyahoga were common. Hopkins had around 8.5".

Good job OH Weather...I really like how you explain, in detail, how you explain your LES forecasts. Looking forward to your insight for next week's event(s)!

Thanks!! Yep, I'm about 2.5 miles of 322.

Hope to be getting more this weekend and early next week. 12z GEM is showing a nice setup for a W-E band of LES after this weekend's cutter. 12z GFS is depicting this as well.

Hey all! Between the clipper (~2") and the LES (~9") I picked up around 11" since late Monday night. There was around 8" on the ground when I left for work at 8:30am.

Nice fat flakes here. Can't wait until the wind picks up!

Thanks for the update! Yeah, I bet they will have to force themselves to issue an advisory. They had no mention of snow/blowing snow in their latest Haz Wx Outlook. You would they would have mentioned something.

As you guys know, the Cleveland NWS seems to be averse (being nice here) to issuing winter weather warnings. I remember when the March 2008 snowstorm was approaching/occurring, all of Ohio was under a blizzard warning except for the Cleveland CWA which stuck to winter storm warnings. ...Funny how northern IN and western NY are under a winter weather advisory, winter storm warning respectively. For Cleveland, only a wind chill warning. Surprised they issued a warning as it would be in keeping with their style to issue just a wind chill advisory. I'm really puzzled as to why CLE is always lowballing winter events (exception being the 2012 Boxing Day storm when CLE issued a blizzard warning...I was shocked at that.).

Right now it may look like we will be whiffed to the south, but this year, modeled storms have had a tendency to creep NW from where they were originally modeled to go. Lack of blocking may help us out. Depends on how this weekend's New England storm affects subsequent ridging off the East Coast. Don't want Boston stealing our snow. Lol!

Been snowing here in Solon...visibilities are reduced due to snow and blowing snow. Wind trajectory is a little more west of north bringing the snow here. Air is very dry though making accumulations less than they seem when looking outside into reduced visibilities.

...Got about .3" of snow last night here in Chesterland. WOW!!! OHweather, what do you think about Saturday's event?

Cool! I think one thing that has helped us tonite is that there is no rapidly bombing Coastal, yet, to suck all of the energy away from the primary resulting in the widespread greens on radar rapidly disintegrating into feeble scattered blue streaks.

Big heaps of wet snow on my deck...have to measure it. I wonder how much snow we will be getting from the clippers this week? 12z Euro forecasted snow depths in the CLE are approaching and even exceeding 30" by this time next week. Maps are most likely overdone but they really stoke the in me!

I'm wondering when the winds back around to the North & NE, as the arctic air moves in whether or not we will have a period of lake enhanced snows that will drop an additional few inches along with a lot of blowing. I have a feeling the morning commute will be pretty messy.

Yes it is...Good times! Earlier on the radar, there were yellows & a few oranges to our west which indicated sleet mixing in. I wondered if that would be moving NE into the CLE area, but now it is a bright green to our west indicative of more snow. to come. Also the NWS upped tonight's accumulation from 3-5 to 3-7.

Sounds good! This is one of the few times we have not had to deal with aggressive warm air advection from the south and southwest. Doesn't look like it will be much of a problem either.

...Just peeked at the CLE radar and I can honestly say that is one of the best looking radars I've ever seen during a storm here.