Chicago WX

Coming down really nicely right now. Flake size is good, not great,..but good. Shame it can't do this all night...

Just now, michsnowfreak said:

 

12 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Kankakee went from 36 to 33.  Should see a similar trend here soon.  Really the question is whether we're going to get stuck at 33-34 or if it will be able to slip down to 32, especially during heavy rates.

If it rips there like here, it’ll stick. Roads are total trash.

13 minutes ago, vortex said:

Coming down good.  

Super impressive rates. Out on my route and visibility is about a block/block and a half at times.

And we’re quickly +SN. 

Started as 5 minutes of pingers, and then all snow. Coming down pretty good right now. Some decent size flakes in there too.

RGEM still looks good

52 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

rgem goin south

 

you all smelling that miss south stank yet?

Ride it

Just ban the dude. He’s being willfully stupid now.

Where are we going to put all this snow?

31 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

Are you right in Kankakee? We could use some quality reports for the event write-up. Definitely noticed a lack of quality reports from down there. Erroneous reports like what you cited affect the NOHRSC analysis that drives the automated snowfall analysis maps. We tried to account for the reports we received in the storm total snow maps we've posted.

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Yes, I live in the city. Southwest side. My storm total was 10.3". That's doing 6-hour measurements, to the best I can, which I've always done. I noticed you guys have a map on the website this morning, that accurately captures the storm. Kudos. 

Last gasp snow still snowing decently here. Measured the snow on my backyard bar (concrete top) and it had 9.5" on it. That's untouched since the storm began. So total storm total has surpassed dd's, considering compaction/settling. Finally, the drought is over, lol.

And a minor rant, which vortex probably shares, but the few local observers around really don't know what the f*ck they're doing with snow measurements. Always some nonsensical amounts. One county CoCoRAHS observer reported 2.7" of snow on 0.71" precip this morning at 5:00 AM. The storm was 99% snow. And the ratios certainly weren't that sh*tty.  

12 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

that 2.5” might cause some issues.

On derecho weakened tree limbs.

20 minutes ago, vortex said:

How much you end up with?  
I’m sure metro wastewater will say 3 inches.  Lol. 

Lol, it still going. No final yet, but approaching 9” storm total. Finally got my driveway completely shoveled out, and now off to the backyard...so the dogs can find a place to “go”. 

Who knew this was going to be a 30+ hour snowstorm (first to last flake)? 
Coming down rather hot here right now. Loving it. And great pic Alek. And everyone for that matter. 

LOT jackpot

Measured 7.3" here. Got about half the driveway shoveled. It's not wet snow per se, but pretty dense. Snow picking back up now too. Looks like the HRRR, RAP, and NAM's want to put down another 2-4" today. Need the top to verify...but dd's in play. 

4 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

Delivering either way

Love the vids

Just now, Chicago Storm said:

So 3.6" total so far?

Legit.

Yes sir. Done well here so far. Back to ripping now. Stack 'em.

24 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

It must be pound town in IKK right now.

If you can believe it, we actually switched to sleet/heavily rimed small flakes for about 15 minutes.  Back to all snow now. I was curious to see how much we picked in the hour since my last measurement, and we had 1.4". So, not too shabby.

39 minutes ago, blue60007 said:

Haven't posted in a while but thought this was a good reason to... just had a loud clap of thunder about 5 minutes ago on the east side of Indy!!! I'm eyeballing about 4 inches on the ground here.

Totally missed this. What's up my friend? Long time, no chat. Congrats on the thunder!

2 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

May have been conservative with my earlier post.  You might get to 6" an hour or two before midnight.

If it keeps up like this...that's a lock. 

Parachutes in this sh*t. Awesome.

Just measured 2.2”. Rip city continues. My dogs are loving it. 

4 minutes ago, Jackstraw said:

Not seeing the typical plaster snow that was expected.  Seeing a dry slot in S IN working its way behind this incoming heavy WAA band.  Hopefully the main system moves east some, fills it in, before it gets here.  An inch so far, and its not wet.  Sure it will be later as that LLJ cranks in a few hours.  No rain which is good. Warm LL temps weren't forecast to really make a march N here until 06-09Z   Shall see, just SN atm. Hoosier and ChicagoWX know where I'm at so of course it had to start with pingers.  Always a damn pinger mixed in there somewhere around here lol.

Clean snowstorms don't exist in Indiana. You know that.  But yeah, so many storms...so many starts with s****.