Happy that I'm a lazy government employee that gets to sit at home today (and get paid to boot) and watch this all unfold.
The areal coverage that this event has and is hitting will be one for the books.
I have a bar in the backyard that I haven't cleared since the Jan 30/31 storm. Has about 14" depth. You can see the bigger flakes easily stacking on top of the existing pack right now. If this is how's it gonna be the rest of today and tonight, then...yeah. Wish I had a cyclone time lapse...
Big flakes falling right now ahead of the band just about to hit. The main show for here, is about to start.
Measured 2.2" with part one on 0.10" liquid. Shoveled this morning after it ended, and my driveway banks are getting into epic territory.
LOT bumping too. New zone forecast has 6-11" storm total. Up from 4-8".
Monday Night
Snow in the evening, then light snow likely after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times in the evening. Snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Total snow accumulation 6 to 11 inches. Lows 1 to 5 above. Wind chills as low as zero to 10 below zero. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 100 percent.
0z HIRES models. Spartman style.
ARW and NSSL. Kinda interesting that both have a lolli of 12/13" in parts of IKK county. Micro shenanigans most likely.
Even though this is just pregame snows right now, if you will, I can't ever recall starting a bigger event with a temperature of 1˚. Flake size is pretty good too.
Both storms combined. Farther up by us, storm #2 is still going obviously...but there's a 32" spot down in NE AR. That's got to be 5-6 winters of snowfall for them in 5 days.
Kinda crazy. Hell, the coverage of 10"+ snow depth at the end of this storm, across the entire region, has to rival some of the great winters of the past. Assuming this verifies and all...
Yeah, I thought 1/5/14 was probably the biggest spread the wealth storm (coverage of 6"+) Indiana has ever seen. Along with Jan '99. This one, if it works out as modeled, beats it no doubt. Pretty amazing.