SchaumburgStormer

3k NAM is trending this towards a DAB event for chunks of LOT.

How in the hell do you even begin to clear a path to get out?

It’s performed terribly. It’s a steaming garbage pile right now.

Needed this nice warmup to get the ice off the trees. Going to have some serious work clearing the branches and trimming those that have broken but are still hanging in the trees.

I tend to view your calls as conservative, not necessarily “pessimistic”. Many times, the shitload of factors that have to align to maximize ANY setup aren’t all there. So conservative is often accurate. It’s always easier to dial up expectations than to dial them back down. And it’s easy to look like a “low baller” when your back yard jackpots ALL THE TIME this season. As much as it pains me to say, I have checked about every box for this winter and am ready for spring. Had thundersnow, thunder sleet, an incredible snowpack, and a bitchin’ ice storm. But there are fish to catch and golf to play. Let’s Morch it.

We had approximately 1hr of good melting here, branches still heavily weighed down.

Ice coated branches starting to swing pretty good in the breeze. Power has popped off and on probably 15 times. Probably would be better for it to simply go off, as this constant flickering may cause a surge. LOTS of outages already reported via ComEd, and that will only get worse as the winds continue to increase

Already had power flash off/on twice in the last 20 minutes. Matter of time before it drops and stays off. edit: 3 times

Figured I would give this a bump since we have widespread .4”+ reports with wind incoming... edit: back under freezing, not hearing nearly as much dripping/melting. Going to be an interesting afternoon.

Some photos. A bit of melting is underway.

3.5 miles SW of KDKB. (Route 23/Gurler Rd area)

I thought @Thundersnow12 was going to relive the glory days and start a bitching storm thread. It appears that isn’t happening

.54” of ice. Going to be a big issue as this certainly won’t melt off before the wind starts.

Eyeballing over .3” of ice accretion. Tough to measure as I can’t make it anywhere without slipping/falling. ZR continues