Chicago WX

Though to be fair, the GFS has shown this storm on and off. 6z GEFS has some support. We watch. We wait.

6z GFS joins the party

Band just won't die. Still going just to my south this morning. Picked up another 1.5" overnight. Event total going back 24 hours is 5.2" IMBY.

Measured before I left for work this morning, and had 3.5” total for the morning/overnight round. Lightly snowing here all afternoon, but has picked up recently back to fluff balls. Roads have caved again. Great wintry appeal day!

I core sampled that 2.2" of snow. 0.05" liquid. So yeah...40:1. Still rocking cotton balls here...

I think there's still potential in the pattern. Wed/Thu looks decent for nice event. And something more substantial in and around V-Day has some support on the ensembles. 6z GEFS below. Granted not unanimous agreement, but when I see the heart shaped height lines to the east, I get reminders of V-Day 2007. I wouldn't punt yet...

Woke up to a surprise this morning. Measured 2.2" new snowfall. This has to be like 40:1 ratio. Total fluff. Cotton balls still falling. Pretty cool.

Dipped to -10˚ at mi casa and IKK this morning.

1.8" total here. Got lucky, relatively speaking, with some nice bands and flake size.

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

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

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

Ride it

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

Where are we going to put all this snow?

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.

On derecho weakened tree limbs.

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.