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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.

Quick pic out back window

11.3" so far here as of a bit ago. Snow continues...

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.

Now this is a storm! At least 10" and still pouring fatties. Sting from last system is toast.

Already destroyed earlier week's storm, with 5" down already here. Some lightning showing up just west of Chicago.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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

First call for here 1-8".

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

Just the weather station, no regular gauge.

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.

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.

Temp has finally dipped back to freezing. Moderate snow under this band atm.

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.

Got about 4" here of the most wet/dense snow I've ever seen.

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.

Well. Can't let a season go by without adding this one to the mix..

Some convective snows upstream in southeast KS with lightning strikes north of Chanute a short while ago.