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11.3" so far here as of a bit ago. Snow continues...
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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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Now this is a storm! At least 10" and still pouring fatties. Sting from last system is toast.
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Already destroyed earlier week's storm, with 5" down already here.
Some lightning showing up just west of Chicago.
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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.
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NAM/HRRR both give us more snow by sunrise than all of the last storm lol. Really solid first wave of precip later tonight looks like.
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Verbatim we go from a morning low of near -20 Tuesday to a morning low of near 30 just 2 days later Thursday AM on the Euro.
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I'll go 3-5" here, with most of that with tonight's wave. Looking like tomorrow's will be a graze job after the long drizzle/very light snow lull.
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8 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:
Euro is an absolute beast for northeast IL
FYP
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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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Looks like a few flurries at best here tonight. Our dense snowpack has settled back to 3". Hope we can add a few more inches later tomorrow night and Friday before the cold hits.
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First call for here 1-8".
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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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Just now, michsnowfreak said:
Do you have a rain gauge?
Just the weather station, no regular gauge.
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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.
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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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Temp has finally dipped back to freezing. Moderate snow under this band atm.
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Congrats to Hawkeye and CR crew for finally (likely) getting their first footer.
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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Got about 4" here of the most wet/dense snow I've ever seen.
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About 2" here. Had about 4hr lull but more snow moving back in now.
EDIT: Weather station shows 0.04" of precip, so some melting is taking place.
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Well. Can't let a season go by without adding this one to the mix..
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Some convective snows upstream in southeast KS with lightning strikes north of Chanute a short while ago.
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Jan 11-13th Blizzard
in Lakes/Ohio Valley
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Luckily a decent amount of snow is breaking off the outer branches on the trees now that the wind has kicked up a bit. Glad the high winds that are coming in later aren't coming in too abruptly.