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10 minutes ago, vortex said:

Similar look to 99, in terms of visibility and flake size.  

Yeah, It's not parachutes, but it's not pixie dust either. Alas, it's accumulating very efficiently.  

Dumping snow. Getting that foggy look.

STL cooking with gas

KSTL 151851Z 34010G21KT 1/2SM R30R/1600V2200FT SN VV007 M16/M19 A3022 RMK AO2 SLP258 SNINCR 1/4 P0004 T11611194

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. 

Just one more time for the hell of it...but the 12z Euro bumped northwest.

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. 

Northeast has the historic Presidents Day 1 and 2 storms (PD I and II). Maybe we can call this one PD21 for us or something. 

Just now, Stevo6899 said:

The 16 and snow in houston is hard to fathom, moreso the temp. Its only 3 degrees warmer at my house than houston.

lol, yeah. Just a historic storm all around. Pretty awesome.

Obs from down south are something. Heavy snow with single digit temps in OK, MO, AR, etc. Thats just a little crazy to me. 

Lake band incoming for Hoosier. 

LOT bumping too. New zone forecast has 6-11" storm total. Up from 4-8". 

GFS twins ticking northwest.

EDIT: I guess more the old one, to the above. But that's just the usual catch up mode. v16 a bit snowier overall.

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.

11 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

0z RGEM a tick NW.

18" over Alek's head, thru 0z Wednesday.

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. 

13 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

NAM looks pretty good. 

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. 

8 minutes ago, KokomoWX said:

My hopes are high over in OKK too.  

You're sitting pretty Jim. Good luck. 

6 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Nice to see our former city of residence get a good one.  Has a shot to dethrone everything since 2/13/2007 for them.  Should at least rank up there with things like 12/15/07, 3/24/2013, 1/5/2014.

Yeah. First foot +  storm since V-Day 07 looking very possible. Always root for our former home.

LAF with the 13 spot on the NAM. Nice.

0z NAM and 3km with 9.4" and 9.3" here respectively. So shall it be.  

3 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

The 10"+ coverage looks phenomenal as well... possibly at least 90-95% of the state.

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...

2 minutes ago, Snownado said:

Do you think IND could get two 6" snows this week ?

Certainly. 

2 minutes ago, Snownado said:

Not that it will happen, but when is the last time IND had two snowstorms of 10" in a 3 day period ?

Easy answer. Never.

2 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

I remember you doing a thread after the January 5, 2014 storm about how spread the wealth it was in Indiana.  This one looks even more spread the wealth in the state.  Actually, assuming this pans out, I can't remember the last time that a storm covered one end of the state to the other with amounts like this.  Even January 1999 didn't do that. 

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.

1 minute ago, Hoosier said:

Here is the para GFS to 00z Wednesday

It's been steady with that call.