Chambana

Cyclone has the hot hand, let’s keep this going. Anyway, does not appear much melting will occur throughout the week prior to this storm. 1/5/14 popping up on CIPS analog yet? 

Does the infamous Alek “guest” account make an appearance in this thread? 

4 hours ago, ams30721us said:

Another nice storm in the QC: 

Moline: 7.0"

DVN: 6.4" 

Even a healthy 2.0" in Dubuque. I was hoping to cash in that amount here in DVN just the other day.

As a southerner, I love these bigger snowfalls this Winter and last, but I always regret them when having to clear the car and driveway before work at 2am each morning! Ha 

Well at least it's not too frigid! 

Jeez if you would have told me the QC would have ended up with a bigger snowfall than me based on the trends, I would have said your crazy. We unfortunately got dry slotted for quite sometime yesterday which really cut into the totals. Jacksonville really cashed in on this storm with a whopping 14”. 

Not complaining though. Still ended up with 6” on the head and it is picture esque outside. Models are hinting at another winter storm next weekend. 

14 minutes ago, Central Illinois said:

heaviest snow coming down currently just over 9"

Congrats. Dry air has been winning the battle here the last 4 hours. You must be in Mt Zion? Heavy band going through right now. 

CMI going with an official measurement of 5.3”. 

Dry air winning over the battle here. Radar looks great just to my west though. Would be a shame not to crack the 6” mark. Oh well. Still a fun storm. 

Measured 5.7” on the SW side of Champaign. In a lull right now, hoping the snow from down near STL can reach us later. 

15 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Real nice uptick in projected accums in mby. Going to be a sharp cutoff as you get closer to the WI border, snow is having trouble making northward progression. 

Its also nice to have a daytime long duration snow storm. Been awhile since I haven’t had to watch the snow by streetlight 

Ditto. This is a fun storm just in the fact it’s occurring mostly in daylight. The snow is definitely fluffier in nature than I had anticipated. It’s nice and powdery. If we just had any wind, this would be a whiteout. 

Getting hammered right now. 

Pixie dust falling at a good clip here. Going to estimate right around 3-4”. Heavier returns off to my west. Another 10-12 hours before the snow tapers off. 

Reed timmer is live. STL metro getting rocked right now. 

8 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

I've been thinking that our areas might end up with a similar amount of snow.  So I hope you're wrong.  

Come on Hoosier, pull for us  we don’t complain much.  

ILX seems to have bumped up the totals from a general 6-8” to 6-10” now. So for me it’s double digit or bust. leggo. Just got me a good bottle of whiskey and gonna try and pull an all nighter. Let’s see who wins the booze or the storm  

29 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

This is going to be a long awaited crush job for you guys, 6-8” looks like a lock.

It hasn’t been often in the past few years that I am jealous of my parents in Decatur regarding a winter storm. 

Absolutely and thanks man! Getting stoked. Updated graphic from our local met. Really considering driving to Mattoon/Charleston for the night. Hopefully another tick north to really put us into the thick of things. Either way, minimal sleep tonight. 

27 minutes ago, buckeye said:

I'd like to nominate cyclone as our 2019 official storm thread starter

Ditto. Thanks cyclone

Locked and loaded. I’ll take my 6” storm and run to the bank with it. Should be a nice event. Especially for those of us screwed by the November blizzard. 

2 hours ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Yep. Thinking an 1” here. Nice to see the south area which missed the earlier blizzard get a solid plastering 

Excited. Banking on a good 3-5” event here. Trends are looking good, and juicy. I need this for my sanity.

9 minutes ago, buckeye said:

Not sure if he hated cold weather, but yes he's from Chicago.

He left the board after Trump won the election.  I'm not sure if it was a bet or he humiliated himself so much in the political forum claiming Trump didn't have a chance that he couldn't take the heat.   Pretty sure it has something to do with TDS though.

Yep. He disappeared shortly after Hilary conceded the race. I know we all kind of had suspicion he had a few spam accounts, but even those disappeared. I remember bowmehunter as well, when I first started lurking the sub.

Local met posted this earlier. A quick shot of cold and snow for the remainder of the week, and then a thaw quickly on its heels. Ugh. 

27 minutes ago, Chinook said:

5 years ago today. What some people called the Polar Vortex Blizzard. I don't know if you like that name or not, but 10" to 13" of snow fell at Toledo. This was followed up by the possibly the coldest recorded wind chills in Toledo's history. (Assume the post-2001 wind chill formula) KTOL had -15 degrees with a wind of 20kt gusting to 27kt, and the wind chill was -43 degrees when computed with the steady wind of 20 kt.

 

 

One of my favorite storms of all time. Seeing heavy snow fall at 15 degrees was incredible. The wind was howling that night, interstates were shut down, and road salt had become ineffective towards the end of the night because of the bitter cold. 

I remember waking up the following morning to  a WC of -44, the numbing cold was unbearable. God what a winter. One I can’t wait to tell my son someday. I swear it seemed every single week we were under some type of WWA or WSW. 

Not even a pos weak Alberta clipper to drop a turd dusting. This winter is rivaling 2011-2012 for now. 

It’s not going to get any better for the next 7-10 days at the minimum. In fact I have 55 degrees in my forecast next Tuesday. 

5 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Be careful if you're going out for New Year's, even if not in the main snow area.  LOT had this to say:

 

With the surface low associated with this system tracking across
or just east of our eastern cwa Monday, low level winds will back
to the north during the afternoon and evening hours, brining
colder air back into the forecast area. Cooling of the column is
expected to produce a transition from rain back to a
rain/snow/freezing rain mix across north central IL by Monday
evening. Some wet snow accumulation is possible during the evening
across northern IL, though precipitation intensity will diminish
fairly quickly as drier air spreads in aloft. Drying aloft, and
the loss of saturation in the -10C or colder ice nucleation layer
will likely result in precip transitioning to drizzle/freezing
drizzle overnight. Persistent southwest flow aloft, with a moist
boundary layer trapped by a sharp inversion, may result in this
drizzle/freezing drizzle/light snow or flurries persisting through
much of Tuesday. Forecast soundings depict a gradual
cooling/drying trend from the northwest by Tuesday night, which
should bring an end to the precip. This scenario would obviously
have slippery travel impacts during the New Years Eve/Day holiday.

Ratzer

Not enough free to drinks in the world to get me to go out on NYE, to many bozos on the road. I got my Jameson and “The truth IPA by flying dog brewery” which is a delicious beer for any IPA lovers! 

Looking like another 40 degree rainer tomorrow. Boo. Likely finish December near +5

1 hour ago, buckeye said:

-This winter is going so bad....

- how bad,is it???

- stebo and the gang are discussing spring chases in the long range winter thread!

Seriously, the long range models really crapped the bed.   Even JB is admittedly rattled and beginning to second guess things.....and he usually never waivers.

Don’t worry buckeye he’s using  the strat warming  event as his escape door for 2002-2003 analog not working out. He’s busting out the ole trusty January 1985 analog now on Twitter  it’s almost comical. 

Digging through Champaign’s December total snowfall numbers since 2014 and the results are just downright depressing. 

2014- T

2015- T

2016- 3”

2017- 5.8”

2018- 1.6” 

that is a whopping 10.4” COMBINED over the last FIVE December’s. That is just wrong.