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9 minutes ago, NEOH said:

Tough one to miss out on, but at least there is snow on the ground. Hopefully we will add some tomorrow. A flip to rain looks inevitable though.

Maybe this one will be an overachiever for us.   I believe it has trended south a tad.   Not sure what the Euro showed last night though . .

3" total here

I'll have to take a drive that way in a little bit.  That's incredible !   We will get ours....just takes time .    Haven't measured anything yet, but 3-4" is my guess here. 

2 minutes ago, OHweather said:

Poking around southern Lake County...jumped out of the car between Kirtland and Willoughby Hills and the snow was a couple inches past my knees. I'm 6'5" tall 

That's definitely the jackpot area.  The band has oriented west to east now so they'll continue to make out. 

40 minutes ago, NEOH said:

I just looked at bufkit and it does show winds coming around later tonight... but then again it showed that yesterday as well. The band is currently oriented on a 290 flow over the lake. Snow is starting to form out west over the lake so that's a positive sign. This event is a good reminder that troughs have a tough time pushing this far south.

Radar looking better .   Light flurries now.

The band did start to wobble south earlier.   Even had some light flurries .    Could make up alot of snow if it moves back south west.   

Saw that band developing to the north and east last night.  Chardon webcam looks fun.   Hopefully it re orients itself .

I was by RT 6 last night until 9 or so.  Not a ton of snow ,  but maybe 2-3" at that time  

Snow picking up now. In mentor, and there's probably an inch here.  Most snow was just north of Chesterland . 

21z hrr nails cle metro through Geauga 

Congrats on finishing school ohweather!

Cuyahoga now has a watch up.

Interesting that the les warning mentions the heaviest from Chardon to burton .   Would think it would be north of Chardon  

Great forecast OHweather ,  thanks for sharing these.   I'd be happy with that for the first big snowfall .   The next few weeks look fun 

The latest cle map seems way too overzealous . 

First map from cle looks like on the border of 6-8 .. 8-12 around here with more towards the lake county border.   

Just as the lake effect winds down maybe more snow on Sunday ?   Won't take much to beat the past few December snow totals combined.  

http://www.weather.gov/cle/Winter_Weather

Long range GFS sure has alot of snow.....but also some really cold temps.  Unfortunately the western basin will probably start to ice over soon..

19 hours ago, OHweather said:

The band may start towards Erie or SW NY initially on Thursday but it's looking like we get WNW winds for a good period late Thursday night through Friday evening with extreme instability and ample moisture...we have a couple days for adjustment obviously, but at this point it looks good for a solid warning criteria event for Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, along with parts of Ashtabula and NW PA and south of Buffalo. This won't be an epic event but if it's close to the GFS it'll be a decent event for a number of areas. 

Sounds good!  Noticed cle toned back the wording and isn't using significant .   Wouls think we will see watches by tomorrow.  Hopefully it pans out for a good portion of the area.

Sure looks like we will be riding a fine line in the lr with snow and rain.  Maybe laying down a good les snowpack will help.

Cle does mention a significant event with westerly winds.....hoping they are more wnw as owhether mentions.

One thing is for sure...finally getting into a wintry period.  The lr clown maps are fun to look at again. 

19 minutes ago, OHweather said:

I can see it now. There will be a prolonged significant lake effect event next week but the winds will be SW. The western basin will see water temps plunge into the mid 30s, we'll get a dusting of snow, and south of Buffalo will get 3 feet. Book it.

Noooooo!    Ahh a little reverse psychology . ...gotcha haha.      

8 minutes ago, NEOH said:

It has been a crazy warm year. I was near the lake earlier in the week and there were still some leaves on the trees. Pattern finally cools off next week... but it would seem extremely hard for this not to be the warmest on record at CLE.

Hopefully a good lake effect setup isn't too far behind the cool down .  Would hate to waste the warm lake temps.  

13 minutes ago, Trent said:

Month after month the warmth continues. November ended up finishing 2nd warmest on record for Cleveland.

June - 11th warmest

July - 4th warmest

August - warmest on record 

September - 2nd warmest

October - 8th warmest

November - 2nd warmest

 

That's incredible !   How far does the warmth stretch ?   Is it region wide?

Going north on 306, accumulations looked fairly consistent with 2-3" until you hit 90 where it was bare grass.  Pretty much bare on 90 until Ashtabula then it started picking up a little .  I'm in Erie for a few days and there's probably 4-6" here and still snowing .

Right around 2" on the deck here.  Glad that the season has started .   Now looking forward to a multi day heavy les event!

There's a nice band on the far west side in Lorain county.   Ground is white here....maybe 1".  No snow currently.

Been snowing the past hour or so    Light dusting on the grass  

Great forecast OHweather !   Sounds like it's going to be a fun start to the season.  

Looking forward to more wintry weather finally.  I'd be fine with just a few inches to start the season.   

I'll be driving to Erie Sunday evening.  Should be an interesting drive.  Then again that drive is mostly near the lake, so may not be that bad.

Good analysis!

Cle seems to be biting in their latest discussion.  Mentions potential of significant accumulations sat night -mon.

Definitely seems late this weekend could be a little snowy.  Not sure on accumulations given the mild weather lately....then again we did have accumulation in may last year   

Speaking of last year,  just looked back over my data and I recorded 79.5" of snow.  Sure doesn't seem like we got that much.  Looks like 15" of that came in April and may.   Crazy year.  

Here's to a better year this year!