hawkeye_wx

Yeah, models are out through the first week of January and there is nothing. We'll probably end up with a 1-to-2-week period of snow and cold later in January or February and that'll be it for winter. That seems to be the way it works now.

Models continue to fade the Christimas warmth. A few days ago, the GFS and Euro had low 60s up to Cedar Rapids. Now, both are down to low 40s, and the 60s are way down in Missouri. Friday is looking much cooler, too.

Not a flake here.

A few model runs here and there had been throwing in a day in the 50s or even 60s here over the next couple weeks, but they have moderated the warmup. The latest Euro and GFS have a couple days in the 40s, but then it's just a bunch of 30s with a few 20s thrown in, so it's mostly relatively mild, but no blow torch. The snow will still melt off.

The HRRR had dropped us all the way down to <1", but we actually got a bit of heavy snow on the northern edge this morning and I picked up a nice, fluffy 2 inches. I'll take it. There is a 6" report just sw of Iowa City. That area, just one county to my sw, has received 8-10 inches from the two clippers.

The first wave trended sw and I ended up with a paltry 0.5".

It appears we could get a couple more refresher snows before the bottom drops out next weekend. The Euro has a -35º wind chill here Sunday morning.

Despite being a light, fluffy snow, my 5.6" oddly has a slightly lower ratio than last weekend's wetter 11". I'm not sure how that happened.

I finished with 5.6 inches. I have almost reached last winter's snow total on December 7th.

Another inch in the last hour, now up to 4".

I have received 3 inches in a little over 3 hours.

One location in far nw Iowa got 9.4" this afternoon. Fort Dodge and Ames got 5.5".

Earlier today, the CAMs were predicting a 6+" band along hw30 from central to eastern Iowa. As the afternoon has progressed, these models have shifted northeast and dried out. It looks more like 3-5 (hopefully still that much) across east-central Iowa.

DVN just upgraded my area to a winter storm warning and 5-7". I'm not expecting 7, but 5 would be nice.

Our 11" shrunk by half pretty quickly.