SchaumburgStormer

Still snowing in N Michigan.

Euro going to be a crush job for NW LOT

Edit: Or pretty much all of LOT

I had mentioned this in another thread, but the 12z GFS has ORD below zero for 60 straight hours, and under freezing until at least 1/25. 

12z GFS with ORD below zero for 60 straight hours. Don't get above freezing through the end of the run (well 276, but you get the idea). 

4 minutes ago, Radtechwxman said:

GEFS seems pretty north

The OP run appears to be on the NW side of the cluster. Lots of member E-SE still. OP has the low over Gary. 

2 hours ago, Spartman said:

 

My favorite thing in the world is these random twitter thread posted here with minimal explanation as to how they would modify sensible weather in the midwest. 

Looking like a quick hitting 1-2 tonight to freshen up the snowpack. Provided shit doesn't go completely sideway with the late week system, will have a solid snowpack headed into the artic outbreak. 

Even the NAM's wildly north solution drops warning criteria snows for much of LOT and the metro. Feeling good about another decent hit locally. 

1 minute ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Not as much as the HRRR, though.

Hahaha yeah, I stand corrected. The HRRR running the low through DBQ is a north outlier, lol

Stop me if you've seen this before, but the NAM is a north outlier. 

Just cleared the driveway, and people are absolutely going to die trying to shovel this. Hands down some of the heaviest snow I have tried to move. Eyeballing about 6-7”

Liking the look of a pivot near or overhead to hold me in the higher returns for some bonus accums 

Puking snow. Probably pushing 2”/hr rates. 

Cranking. Top notch stuff right now 

Rip city and it should be doing this for the next few hours. Time to stack em. 

Currently not accumulating on treated roads. Need some 1-2” per hour rates to make this interesting 

Hoping for 6” at this point. Higher end totals appear off the table. Heavy bands are pretty transient 

Shitty “phone pics of snow suck” caveat;

Good flake size/clumps too. #snowglobing 

Solid SN, let’s keep this up for the next 8 hours or so 

Getting back into the snow after the well advertised lull. Already nice flake size under lighter returns. Should really crank as the returns over S Dekalb Co work north. 

Got maybe an inch of slushy on the roads/concrete last night, but should be a solid base for accums once the defo band starts up later this morning. 

1 minute ago, cyclone77 said:

That's a great idea for depicting different zones.

Very “public” friendly too, gives the normies a fair idea of what to actually expect 

Of course the battery in my weather station goes bad tonight. Not going to have any real time backyard obs because I am too lazy and warm to go outside and change it lol 

Fun to see the forum hopping again