cyclone77

We'll always have Halloween 2019 lol.

Guess I'll lower my call here to 0.5-1.5" lol. 24hrs ago I was worried my 1-3" call would bust low. Silly me.

Some of the more juicy models are dropping 4"+ here, but gonna ride the usual 1-3" and hope that it works out better than the last system. Hopefully by 18z Wed the models will have converged on their final solution. Might not happen until the 00z Thu suite though.

Looks like one last chance Fri or Sat morning. We've only had one subzero day here (Jan 19 @ -2), and a few zero lows. Looks like -5 is possible Fri morning, especially if we can manage to lay down some fresh powda..

1-3" first call for here/QC. Snow shall commence at sundown and shut off around 5am. All eyes will be pointing towards the street lights Wednesday evening.

It'll be March 30th, and will fall from Carbondale IL to Athens OH.

9.9" up at La Crosse. Pretty impressive. Finished with a few tenths of rain (some very minor glazing), and 0.1" of sleet.

We're under an enhanced blob of precip now, and it's all liquid, so we're clearly done with frozen precip type precip today. At least we got 5 minutes of flakes, and a light dusting of sleet. I'm giving the models an F- for this one. For days it showed at least a few hour period of all snow for the QCA up until last evening when they started to show mixing could be an issue even at onset. That's why it's usually good to error on the side of lameness when forecasting about 95% of the time.

Snow lasted about 5 mins. Now mostly frz rain with a little light sleet again.

And just like that it's mostly snow, with a little sleet.

Slightly heavier radar returns have moved overhead, and now there's some light sleet mixing in with the light freezing rain. Temp right at 32.

Some very light freezing rain has began here.

Things aren't so clear out this way compared to northeast IL. Precip type looks to be an issue all of the sudden after the models had been showing all snow to start for days. It still could be all snow to start, but it's not a sure thing. Good chance it fails to start as snow since it will be during the daytime lol. Hopefully models are too warm and we can at least get a quick burst of heavy snow before the drizzly dry slot moves in.

Hi-res models are showing a very short window of snow here before the changeover occurs. 1" might be a pipe dream.

Looks similar to the WAA event a few weeks ago in which as soon as heavier precip moves out it will quickly flip to liquid.

If we can manage a good hour of rippage out of this tomorrow morning I'll consider that a big win. Been so hard to get snow of any intensity to fall during the daytime this season. Models indicate a quick inch or so followed by drizzle/light rain.

Too bad daddylonglegs doesn't post anymore. He's in line to receive a nice 6-9" out of this thread-the-needle event. I'll go with 1" here/QC. If anything falls at least it will be during the day.

Getting some snizzle, with a bit of frizzle early this morning. Big difference between here and northern IA. Temps in the upper 20s here, whilst Mason City is at a bone chilling -3.

The 0.5" of feathery fluff that fell last night was so dry it mostly sublimated away today as opposed to melted. Temp only made it 32, but by day's end the entirety of last night's snow was history.

zzzzz. Bring on spring. Let's hope that next winter delivers a warning criteria event to more than two members outside of the lake belts.

Not really expecting much with this one for the DVN cwa. This looks like a MN/WI special.

Just snuck into the far northwest shield of snow overnight, and ended up dropping 0.5" of fluff.

Actually snowing pretty decently now. Nice dendrites snow globing down. Have accumulated a few tenths of fluff.

Still early, but I'm leaning towards a D or D- winter for a grade unless we can get a quality event between now and March. Even though we have a good shot at getting close to avg if we can muster another 10", it's been a very unsatisfying winter. Almost every snow event has been at night, and there's just not been much to get excited about overall this season. Systems downtrending in the final 48hrs has been an unfortunate theme this winter. We need a good widespread winter storm with some balls to wipe away the lameness that dominated this season.

Been spitting flakes here for a little while, non accumulating. Not a complete shutout but my 1-3" call will bust way high.