cyclone77

As soon as darkness fully set in light snow moved in. #2019/2020 winter of nocturnal snows.

Another day with drizzle. This time it was non-freezing. Had a few flurries early this morning as well. Lost an inch or two of snow pack today as temps made the mid 30s.

I love GFS.

I'm losing track now, but today was at least the 4th day in a row with freezing drizzle. Just took the trash to the curb and it's actually freezing drizzling pretty robustly atm.

I wish they'd bring back "see text". That was always funny to laugh at when setups crapped the bed.

We've had off and on freezing drizzle since last night as well. The AWOS/ASOS sites aren't picking it up for some reason, apparently too light? It may be too light for them, but it was enough to cause a very rapid flash freeze of frozen drops on the windshield on the drive in to work this morning, which was a bit unsettling lol. Kind of shows a weakness in the lack of human obs with these automated stations we have nowadays.

GFS and the Euro continue to indicate some sort of threat around the 4-5th. About the only thing to watch so hopefully the threat continues as we get closer.

I'd love to see a radar/satellite loop of that event. Doubt anything comes close to matching that short period of weather in our lifetimes. Had off and on freezing drizzle all day.

Ground zero @ 384hrs out on the op GFS. What can go wrong?

About 3-4" of frozen crust left here. Should be mostly gone by later in the weekend. Hope we can replenish it around the 4-5th of Feb.

Based on that there's a good chance a fee will be required eventually.

Wonder if Pivotal is eventually going to start charging for their Euro stuff. I always heard the EC model data was super expensive, so maybe they're building a new following by adding all this stuff only to ask for $ eventually? If it goes on and continues to be free it will be interesting to see what happens with sites like WxBell in regards to prices, etc. Or, will sites like COD feel compelled to add EC data at a cheap/free price. Speaking of model sites, ol' Twisterdata has been the same since 2010ish. Same graphics and same 3 models. Kinda cool in a way as it's sort of a throwback lol. I still look at it once in awhile for nostalgia.

Euro and GFS both showing a big dump of cold air around the 4th-5th of Feb. Hopefully something of quality can develop on the leading edge of that. Until then, zzzzz.

Lock it in.

Getting a few last gasp flurries from the tail-end of the final spoke of precip. A parting gift from a truly memorable 3-day event.

I'm surprised at the relative lack of big lake snows there. Ever since you moved from LAF back to where you are now I can't remember you having a major lake event there. Maybe I just forgot lol. I always figured anywhere from the IN/IL border and points east got blasted all the time during the winter. Guess it isn't as common as I thought.

Looking pretty quiet the next 7-10 days.

Would be a great day to build a slushman.

1.3" overnight for a 3-day total of 4.3". Interestingly 99% of the snow fell at night lol. Net gain from before the 3-day snow began is around an inch or so. Other than that brief period early last eve, and some drizzle during the down periods in between the waves it was all snow here.

Nice snow globe out there as we continue to hold onto the western edge of the snow area. 1.2" as of a bit ago. Snow is about to shift east out of here so the event is about done here. If we wouldn't have had rain wasting the precip earlier we would have had over 2" easily by now.

Very nice. Yeah this last wave was optimized for your area. Still snowing quite nicely here as well. Snow is fairly wet, so ratio is prob around or a bit under 10:1. Flake size is medium, but pouring down nicely. About an inch of fairly dense new snow so far.

Snow is pouring down here, medium flakes. Half inch so far, and sticking to paved surfaces as well. Trees are coating up nicely. Wish it could do this all night.

Only thing I can think of is it was pretty foggy before, and at the onset of precip. Maybe the high saturation "water logged" the flakes as they hit the melting layer (around 500ft) and caused rapid melting? All snow here now, and ripping pretty nicely.

Mostly snow here finally, prob 75/25 snow/rain. Some nice flake size.

Looking at the new DVN RAOB makes it pretty surprising that it's still 80/20 rain/snow here. Only an extremely shallow layer of above freezing air at the surface. Even light precip should be enough to quickly flip this over to all snow. Grrr