hawkeye_wx

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.

The globals have been much more stable (and south) than the CAMs.

The RRFS from 00z to 12z.

The 00z models were north, but the overnight and morning trend has been back south.

The Euro is holding steady with its snow band through Iowa. In general, the global models are farther south and the CAMs are farther north.

The Saturday night clipper has shifted north on several models overnight. The CAMs have shifted significantly north.

It's a very active pattern over the next couple weeks. There will be an alternating series of brief mild and cold surges. The Euro is showing quite a temp contrast a week from now between the plains and lakes.

12z Euro is still hot with the weekend clipper for my area. This system is short-lived, though. It blows up in Siouxland and craps out after leaving Iowa.