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Finished with 3" on avg. Was somewhat difficult with all the blowing. The snow is quite slushy on the bottom layer over paved surfaces. Still a very quality event for so early, and was fun to track.

Underperformer here. Looks like 2-3".

Fun little system to track. Can't believe another quality event so early. Looks like 4-6" looking more likely here. If we can get a slight nudge south 6"+ isn't out of the question.

Apparently DVN isn't too impressed lol. While the lift will occur in a good thermal area for dendritic growth, the forcing looks to be rather weak, progressing southward at a good clip, and interacting with limited moisture. This system is still coming together over the east Pacific and northern Canada, resulting in minor differences in critical features and QPF fields in the models. For now, it looks like a widespread dusting to 1 inch, with higher amounts setting up along the eastern reaches of the I-80 corridor in IL. Current timing has the measurable snow winding down in this area before sunrise and by mid morning across the far south.

Looks like the 18z NAM is coming around more towards Euro and Canadian. Looks like a nice 2-3" type event around here.

Looking forward to some more mood flakes Sun night/Mon morning.

Oops, I meant to type Black River Falls. They're down to -6 now. 16 here, which is the coldest temp of the season so far. There are still some remnants of snow where it drifted deep out in the country on Halloween. Pretty impressive to have snow last on the ground over a week during the first week of November, and with near 60 degree temps yesterday to boot.

Rochester MN already down to 7, and Lone Rock WI at 8.

-6 at Sheldon Iowa, and 0 at Estherville. Pretty crazy to see below zero temps a week after Halloween.

Some mood flakes whipping around in the gusty advection winds this eve. Leaves are drifting up as well in yards left unraked.

Most of the trees around here are bare now after the snow and temps in the teens on the 1st. Even trees that were mostly green dumped a lot of those off that morning.

The obligatory sure glad the models come out an hour earlier post.

Got down to 17 this morning. Any trees that had leaves were dumping them this morning.

Great storm. Ended up with about 4".

3.0" here and still snowing nicely, with a nice enhanced band about to move in from the west. Should have no problem clearing the 4" mark. The snow pack is pretty dense due to the wet nature, and the smaller flakes much of the event.

A little under 1.5" so far. The accumulation rates have been very slow all evening. Mostly due to very small flake size for 4hrs, and the showery nature of the better rates. Kind of typical for a long-duration event. Still another 10-12hrs of steady snows to go, so 4-5" still looking good. Rates should get better later on when the showery stuff pushes east, and we get more into the deformation zone.

Nice to see an over-achiever there. Snow is beginning to stick to paved areas here as well, as we've dropped to 30. Closing in on an inch on non-paved areas. Flakes are larger now. The first 4hrs had very fine flakes.

Very nice!

Grassy and elevated surfaces have dusted up with a few tenths so far. Flakes are very small and pouring straight down.

A few flakes coming down at the moment, mixed with some drizzle. Looks like all things are go for a solid advisory criteria event. Euro bumped us up to close to 1/2" of precip. GFS and NAMs came back to Earth a bit, after showing 6-9" for several runs. Looking like a nice 4-5" type of event. Good chance we won't see anything like this again on Halloween. Gonna be pretty sweet watching game 7 of the World Series with snow ripping outside.

October @ MLI was pretty close to a very rare occurrence for around these parts. That would be to hit 90 and receive an inch of snow in the same calendar month. MLI hit 88 on Oct 1st, and recorded 1.1" of snow between the 28-29th. I think the heat index on the 1st was in the low-mid 90s, so I guess there's that lol.

Models are still all over the place with amounts for the QCA. Only thing that's clear is tonight's snow misses southeast, and then a nice long-duration snow event starting tomorrow evening. 2-5" would probably be a safe choice. Anything measurable at this point in the season is pretty noteworthy, so it'll be a big win to be sure.

That's very impressive. Definitely wouldn't surprise me to see such a focused and intense band show up like that. Gonna be very devastating to trees and powerlines along that stretch.

I noticed a lot of trees dumped a crap load of leaves today. It's almost as if they got the message from ma nature to dump them or face getting destroyed lol.

NAMs and GFS are still showing 6-8" for the QCA. Not bad considering tonight's snows will miss southeast. 3km NAM shows some pretty nice rippage tomorrow night.