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  1. Pouring cottonballs under these 30-35 DBZ returns.  It's been pouring large dendrites since mid-morning, with very large aggregates at times, like right now.  The first wave's 5" was a much lighter/fluffier snow.  Felt considerably different compared to the 4:1 slush-fest on Tuesday lol.  With this main wave the snow is considerably more wet, probably <10:1 type stuff, but with the huge aggregates it's stacking up better than a sub 10:1 snowfall.  

    Had to work all morning.  Roadways are mostly vacant as most peeps seem to be hunkering down.  Roads really aren't too bad where the plows are keeping up, as winds are pretty wussy right now. 

    A bit worried for tonight when high winds hit.  Trees/powerlines are caking up like a mofo. 

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  2. Still no real idea how much to go with here.  That last storm system really skewed me into a more negative mindset regarding expectations lol.  

    Looks like a good chance at a quick 3-5" later tonight with this first portion.  The big question is how will things go tomorrow.  At this point I'll just consider whatever we get tomorrow a bonus.  

  3. The thing to worry about here is that tomorrow night's wave performs best off to the northwest, and then the main wave of precip sort of just grazes us later Friday after a long lull with drizzle/very light snow.  If we can do well enough with the first wave then being grazed by the main one wouldn't be so bad.  Hopefully the globals are correct in showing more of widespread distribution of heavier snowfall.  

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  4. 17 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

    It is ripping hard here, the heaviest snow of the season.  The comma head of this potent little disturbance is about to go over me with very intense snow.

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    You guys are really gonna max out this incoming arctic blast with such deep snow cover.

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  5. 10 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

    My final measurement is 11.0", so I've still never measured a foot.  Without the blowing and drifting later in the storm, I probably would have.  All the spotters in and around Cedar Rapids who are reporting 12-15" must have more favorable locations to measure.  Even with a 2-stage blower, cleaning this stuff was a long workout.  It's the most wet snow I've ever received.

    Models really blew it when they shifted the heaviest snow band southeast yesterday.

    Congrats!  This storm will haunt me for awhile.  Just shit luck the past 4 winters. 

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  6. 5 minutes ago, hlcater said:

    Crazy how different the scene is over a relatively short distance. I will end this storm with 13.2" in IC in what will go down as a top 3 storm for me. Rarely do you get the intensity/duration of snow that we did with this storm, and it happened during the day to boot. Started off this morning with giant aggregates and very sloppy ratios (prob 5-6:1) and gradually transitioned towards smaller, drier flakes. The stuff falling in this final band looks and feels north of 10:1. 

    Very nice!  I'd love to do one of those core samples if I had equipment or knew how, but since there's been so much melting from underneath it wouldn't be accurate anyway.  The melted bottom layer likely soaked into the unfrozen top soil lol.

  7. 4.3" with a short while of light snow left. most models showed over 1" of precip so assuming we got that we effectively got 4:1 snow with compaction/melting.  Even now you can hear dripping when outside.  Felt like an October or April storm.  Oh well, on to the next.

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  8. Congrats to Hawkeye and CR crew for finally (likely) getting their first footer.  :thumbsup:

    Very disappointing outcome here with the extremely low ratios.  Hard to complain though when areas southeast in the sub are getting a cold rain.

    Should hopefully add another inch or so to bring us to near 5".  Nice to have an all-day snow event.

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