cyclone77

Actually it's daylight saving time.

Picked up about 3/4" on elevated/grassy surfaces.

Pretty impressive! All snow here now, and dumping pretty nicely. Temp has dropped to freezing. Grass has quickly dusted up with white in the past ten mins.

Picked up 0.07" of rain. It's mostly snow now, with very fine flakes pouring down. Some minor slush showing up on elevated surfaces. Should snow pretty nicely between 1-2am, which could result in a quick inch on the grass/elevated surfaces. Temp is down to 33.

Wow, that Sycamore has pretty nice color. Around here they usually look more like how the lower portion of the above tree looks, before dropping.

Very nice. Visibilities AOB a mile extend back towards Grinnell and Pella, so you should have nice snow for a decent while longer. Have a 50/50 mix of rain/snow here now. Large solitary flakes raining down with the rain. Temp has dropped from 39 to 35 in the past half hour.

Yeah it's pretty cool how it can be like this, or have near 80 degree warmth. Halloween is one of the biggest crap shoots there are in regards to weather compared to most holidays.

And that's a pretty nice win given it's so early in the season. EDIT: Forgot to mention earlier, I'll be relocating further south here in about 6 weeks. About 4 blocks south on the south side of Erie more into the country lol. Offer on the new house was accepted yesterday.

First snow of the new season this eve. Have a mix of mostly rain, with partially melted flakes raining down. Sounds kind of sleety.

Yeah some interesting trends the past day or two. This reminds me of the late Oct 1997 storm that dropped a few inches here, and quite a bit more on Cedar Rapids/Iowa City. Tonight's GFS dumps about a foot on the area. Would be a hell of a mess with the trees still about 80% full of leaves.

Not sure how it's doing that far out this season, but last winter it wasn't too good beyond 18hrs in regards to precip amounts. Seemed to low-ball amounts beyond the 18hr range.

The weaker/less phased version of the system ala what the 12z EC shows benefits the QCA. Would mean a mostly snow scenario with just a brief period of rain Thu. Looking forward to the first flakes of the season.

Decent little rain event here on the western edge. Picked up 0.65" so far. If this were a winter event we would have just sneaked into a warning criteria event. Winds have been pretty tame here (especially compared to last Mon/Tue lol).

If today's system were a snow maker we'd really be sweating the western edge lol. Models have bumped up QPF to between 0.5-0.75". Very steep drop off in amounts as you head west into extreme eastern IA. This kind of reminds me of 12/1/2006 but with rain.

Kind of on the western edge of things here, but it looks like perhaps 1/4-1/2" of cold rain tomorrow afternoon/evening. Nice soaker for eastern IL.

Not sure when they updated it, but wxbell is now showing the 06z/18z Euro runs now. Nice addition. They're also continuing to tweak the model graphics, as they've just recently added 3hr increments for P-type/thickness to the Euro. EDIT: And now I see they have added hourly maps for many of the parameters, like surface temp, etc. Very nice!

This system is pretty impressive with the wind. Nice long-duration strong wind event. MLI peaked at 50mph so far, DVN hit 47mph. Have consistently been getting 35-42mph gusts since this time yesterday.

Picked up 0.43" this morning here. The day has transitioned from a very dark/showery morning into a bright and windy afternoon with full sun, and some cu streets passing overhead. What little fall color we had developing on the trees is being stripped away today by the strong winds. Winds look lighter after tomorrow for the rest of the week, so hopefully the color will build up nicely by the weekend. DVN has bumped the wind advisory into the central/western cwa. Smart move as it looks to become very windy overnight. Have already been getting 30-35mph gusts, but 40-45+ looking likely after midnight.

I'd take that. Let's get '19/'20 season started right!

Cold and dry.

Wagons south!

Looks like the models had a pretty good handle on it. As per usual the GFS played catch up with the Euro.

If you have 3+hrs to spare, here's a time lapse of snow depth from every day going back to 1950 (up to 2015). EDIT: I didn't make this time lapse lol

Yeah it was a whole different world up there today compared to our areas. It nearly hit 60 here with full sunshine all day. Felt cooler though with the very dry air, and the relentless winds. Speaking of the wind, it's likely somebody flipped a switch around sundown. It's practically dead calm out there now lol.