RitualOfTheTrout

Gorgeous deep winter night out there. Just came in from a walk and secondary shoveling. Fresh coating with light snow falling and temperature in the teens, light wind. Just trying to take it all in.

Most of my memories are from situations like this, usually in a squall line or strong arctic front. Honestly its probably not super rare for our region as a whole in this type of setup. Now getting it as part of a noreaster I can't recall the last time that happened. If I hadn't been outside I would have probably missed it. I'm not sure if there are any official statistics on it or not.

Wait til that second batch gets to you. Heavy snow, huge dendrites, its a thing of beauty. Phone camera can't do it justice.

Looks like one more moderate burst before the dry air starts to shut off the heavier snow. Its ripping here again. Gotta go back outside!

Hard to say, its still ripping behind the main line. Id say .5 -.75 in the heart of it. It started out more graupel like, so I knew there was some convective element and a shot at thunder / lightening coupled with the 35dbz returns. I was pushing 4 inches before it hit, will probably get close to 5 for the event.

Just had thundersnow in the squall! Big flash of lightning! (Im outside shoveling)

Radar looks to be filling in, getting moderate snow here. Probably closing in on an inch and forecast was 3-5 so I think its still on track. It does look like areas that got more from the snow bands to the SW of the city are missing some of the better rates at the moment though.

Light to moderate snow here. Did start with some light freezing drizzle.

Glad to see some LES lottery winners! Only about a half inch here, but may briefly get a piece of that band before it dissipates / drifts north.

Definitely a signal for a storm around that period. Trough looks a little to far East as depicted for us, but it will all be different in 12 hours anyways.

NWS mentioned some decent upper level support as well. Another relative lull in snow is possible Wednesday afternoon, before a more significant shortwave trough and reinforcing cold front drop in from the Great Lakes for New Years Eve into New Years Day. Renewed cold advection and WNW flow will likely add lake and upslope influences. There may even be upper support from the left exit region of an upper jet diving into the Middle Ohio Valley. Along with better moisture, this sets the stage for an accumulating snow across the region Wednesday afternoon into Thursday. Current first- guess snow totals would have 6-7 inches in the ridges from Fayette County on south, and 2-5 inches elsewhere. Given these totals and the potential impact to holiday festivities, a Winter Storm Watch is being issued for the ridge zones from Wednesday afternoon into Thursday morning. Snow would then begin to taper off Thursday afternoon as lingering lake effect/upslope snow showers.

Nice, just a coating here, but getting steady light snow atm.

Things look to start getting interesting again as we head into the new year. January shaping up with blocking and some hints of stj too. Much better looking than what models were showing a week ago. Hope it holds. Otherwise will be watching tomorrow for any snow bands.

These squalls mean business. Combined with the wind and flash freeze roads are bad. Big wreck inbound on the highland park bridge. It was basically a sheet of ice.

Yeah, this caught me off guard. I only caught the end of the heavy burst around 11:15 coming up from the basement. Probably laid down a quick quarter inch that flash froze to everything. Had to go into the city so Im missing the good stuff back home. Ring camera looks like at least an 3/4 to an inch. Driving down 28 my car was completly encased in snow and ice, while all the other vehicles were clean around me. Felt like I was in the delorean a time traveling stint lol.

Yes, at least one I remember actually happened on Christmas Eve. Wave developed along a front, front went through, temps dropped and rain turned to snow as the developing wave stalled the front.

That's probably how we will have to get snow with a -pna over the next couple weeks. Cold front goes through then you time a follow up wave while you have the cold, then it warms back up, rinse and repeat.

This event checked a lot of boxes, long duration, daytime, cold during and after. Measured close to 6.

It keeps pivoting / breaking up over me. Mainly just on and off light snow, but adds to the scene.

Heavy snow. Kicking back with a couple mad elf beers and watching A Christmas Carol.

Same... Keep coming up with reasons to go out. Oh garbage bags almost full Ill get those. Better shovel the walk.. lol

Best rates of the event imby right now. Looks like a heavier band moving in now. Took the dogs out for a walk and pulled the boy around on the sled. Roads are pretty bad.

Nice. I think you are in a great spot for this one. Wind is starting to pick up some now it seems.

It was an unmitigated disaster in the last 10 minutes. I'm sure Rust will be reliving hitting the post with an empty net, but up 2 goals still at that point it shouldn't have been necessary to score anyways.

Closing in on 1.5 inches. Snow is wet, not dry powder like I expected.