Chicago WX

10.3" (0.47" liquid) at DSM as of midnight. And been snowing since. What a winter for them. Mood snows here this morning. Little bit of freezing drizzle overnight. Glaciated.

After a lull, dry slot #1 if you will, current band started as all sleet, and has now transitioned back to all snow. Coming down pretty good with decent flake size right now. In the end, all of this won't amount to much here...but it'll be all frozen, and fun to work (walk) on tomorrow.

Lol, sell the ice amount. We won’t get that much total precip. And 1-2” of snow looks about right. And then freezing drizzle. All in all, a totally forgettable “storm” for us. The beat goes on...

Indeed. Only one that I can recall that we had in that "drought", in IKK, was the March 1991 storm (infamous central IL/IN ice storm) that dropped dd's here. Note, MDW had six 10"+ storms in those 18 years, but obviously ORD was the official site during that time.

Chicago official 10"+ snowstorms (via LOT) Jan 18-20, 1886: 14.0" Feb 12-14, 1894: 11.0" Dec 27, 1894: 10.1" Feb 6-7, 1895: 13.4" Nov 25-26, 1895: 12.0" Feb 3-4, 1896: 12.5" Feb 12-13, 1896: 12.0" Mar 23-24, 1897: 10.0" Feb 28, 1900: 11.3" Feb 2-4, 1901: 12.7" Dec 12, 1903: 11.3" Feb 18-19, 1908: 12.8" Jan 12-14, 1910: 10.2" Jan 6-7, 1918: 14.9" Mar 30-31, 1926: 12.6" Dec 17-19, 1929: 14.8" Mar 25-26, 1930: 19.2" Mar 7-8, 1931: 16.2" Feb 6-7, 1933: 12.7" Dec 9-10, 1934: 11.3" Jan 30, 1939: 14.9" Dec 10-11, 1944: 10.9" Dec 5-8, 1950: 13.3" Dec 14, 1951: 10.0" Mar 2-3, 1954: 11.8" Dec 19-20, 1960: 12.5" Dec 22-23, 1961: 11.7" Feb 23-25, 1965: 11.5" Jan 26-27, 1967: 23.0" Dec 22-23, 1969: 11.3" Mar 25-26, 1970: 14.3" Apr 1-2, 1970: 10.7" Jan 9-10, 1977: 10.9" Jan 25-27, 1978: 12.4" Feb 6-7, 1978: 10.3" Jan 12-14, 1979: 20.3" Feb 10-11, 1981: 11.2 Jan 1-3, 1999: 21.6" Feb 18, 2000: 11.1" Jan 30-31, 2002: 12.0" Jan 21-23, 2005: 11.2" Feb 13-14, 2007: 10.2" Jan 9-10, 2009: 12.0" Feb 9-10, 2010: 12.9" Jan 31-Feb 2, 2011: 21.2" Dec 31-Jan 2, 2014: 10.9" Jan 4-5, 2014: 11.7" Jan 31-Feb 2, 2015: 19.3" Nov 20-21, 2015: 11.2"

3 day total storms for those. Back when I could easily find hourly obs, those three qualified in my book. I also have the 10"+ list if you need it. That one came straight from LOT's website.

Panic in Iowa. And they’ll all still pull 6”+ easily. LOT has 1-2” total here. Thought that might have been a bit of a lowball, but I can see it. Shouldn’t have to go much farther north to see a good increase though. At least the ground will be white again for a couple of days. That’s a win this winter.

Lol, you’re right. Iowa is the king of all fun weather.

Iowa people are spoiled when 7-8” is garden variety. Many LOT peeps jonesing for that much snow in one storm.

6z on the right. 12z on the left (thru 20z Tuesday)

3km following suit. Fringes always precarious, but funny to toggle between the 6z and 12z runs...and watch places on the northern edge going from warning snows to a trace.

Seems like we play these games of 0z run is south...6z north...12z back south...18z big bump north. Rinse, wash, and repeat.

FWIW, the 12z HRRR is solid for the city. Has the look of some LE action.

The more I think about it, pretty sure that's the formerly banned poster Ytterbium. And way too much BamWx. Well, any is too much. And that pretty much goes for any of these twitter "mets".

LAF gets its good. CMI even better.

It's all front end for here...other than scraps after the dry slot moves through. If it's all snow, then we (IKK) have a shot at 3-5" IMO. And I can see that happening...

Josh, cool idea. I've had the 6"+ list compiled for Chicago for quite awhile...you should have asked. Regardless, I've got a few corrections/added missing data to your list. Below are the ones that I have that are different from yours for Chicago... 1886-87: 2 1891-92: 3 1896-97: 2 1897-98: 2 1898-99: 0 1899-00: 2 1917-18: 3 1927-28: 3 1932-33: 2 1934-35: 3 1949-50: 1 1950-51: 2 1957-58: 1 1958-59: 2 1966-67: 3 1968-69: 1 1974-75: 3 1989-90: 2 2000-01: 3 2006-07: 2 2007-08: 1

Lol, me too. Though I knew it was foolish. Nothing worse than 33 and rain while those just to the north are pounding snow. Alas, maybe it’ll keep Hoosier from posting those dumb drought maps.

Eh, I've been resigned to this not being a "clean" storm for here, for awhile. Would take a minor miracle for it to be all snow at this point. Overnight LOT AFD seems to indicate any freezing/non-snow frozen precip will be NBD here, with rain taking over. GFS hug, seemingly. Not sure I'd go that far yet, but further adjustments north might be the play...as they typically are with these types of systems. Oh well, onto to the next one for me I guess. Good luck to those up north...

I’ll I have to add is...Boiler Up!

Lock it up

And don't forget to stock them wagons. Looks like another solid 33˚ rainer here. Congrats to the usual folk this winter.

Yeah, super cold event. It was ripping +SN here in the single digits/low teens...all the while it was spring in Missouri.

We had a really good run from Feb 2007 thru March 2015...save a few winters. Might be the best run LAF has ever seen. Good times. When I get time, I may have to rank my favorites in this here thread.

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