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Less than 30hrs out from the event now, and the models range from nothing to 4" here. Precip shield will prob struggle against dry flow from the east/northeast, so I'm gonna guess that we receive nothing. Interestingly some models have shown a few lake effect snow showers making it this far southwest. It's pretty rare, but it has happened before. A few evening lake effect flurries may be the highlight of this 'event' here.

They do well once firmly established since they have a very aggressive root system. The first few years they'll def need a little help though if it gets droughty, which if Hoosier is right it will this year lol.

Pretty good so far, didn't grow much this past warm season which is to be expected. Should do better this year, and really take off next year. It's a zone 4 (minimum) tree so it should be okay even with the cold we can get here.

Have a few zone 5 trees I kind of wanted to see if they could take a hard winter. Guess this will be a good test for them lol. Map says we're in zone 5A, but due to how we can really bottom out here in the RR valley I think it's more like zone 4B here.

Kind of seems like it. Sort of a poor man's version of last season's mega-glacier from multiple heavy sleet/freezing rain events lol.

40 here, and still holding onto a good 3" of snow at this point.

The massive snow event in March that melts 2 days later will be worth the wait.

For us northern IL peeps I guess we'll catch the next storm, whenever that may be lol.

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Looking forward to the dog turd duster Thu morning.

Anything that tries to phase would prob be another MSP special. Rain showers and dry slot for us lol.

Wagons west. I'll be happy to squeeze a fresh inch of powder out of this after the abysmal look to the medium range just a few short days ago.

#Roadto50inches

This one is still alive because I said earlier today that it would be a one run wonder. Jinx worked, you can submit royalties to my venmo account at your convenience.

The snow has a shine to it now from last night's glazing. No more blowing snow from here on out. Euro tries to get a clipper system in here next weekend, but has the look of a one run wonder. My hunch is it will be a Michigan special on the next run.

He was probably like

Glazed like a donut out there this eve to be sure.

On the SPC past events page the original day 3 is gone, as only the updated midday day3 update shows up. Was hoping to go back and have a laugh at that original day3 but it's been edited out of existence, at least on the SPC past events page.

Of February or March?

^Sign me up for that Euro run as well. -10 here atm, which is low so far.

Pretty significant blowing snow out in the open areas today. Made it look (and feel) pretty legit. I'm gonna have to spend a whole day in the spring going around and picking up sticks/small branches from all the wind we've had the past month or so lol.

So far this winter has gone much like how a good chunk of 2021 went. Very long periods of benign/dry weather, and then maybe a week or two stretch of excitement that quickly brings the long-term stats a little closer to the overall average. So, if the theme continues we shall see another 3-5 weeks of blah followed by an exciting stretch somewhere in mid February, and that perhaps drops 10-20" of snow in that time frame. Following that another 3-6 week stretch of mind-numbing boringness until the next stretch of excitement arrives in late March/early April.

It may cause the belt to wear out a bit quicker but it's definitely worth it even if you have to change a belt once in awhile.