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hawkeye_wx

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  1. I'm up to 5.1" now, with 1.1" over the last hour. A heavy band moved in before noon and hasn't moved.
  2. We are over-performing here in Cedar Rapids. I'm up to 4". The dry models were certainly wrong. It has been snowing moderately to heavily for four hours and that should continue for another hour or two.
  3. DVN just lowered Cedar Rapids to 2-3", but the heavy band over us has already produced 2" with several hours to go.
  4. Our event in CR is going surprisingly well. I haven't measured, but a moderate to heavy band has been parked over us for a while.
  5. The last couple HRRR runs have dropped our total down again, but it is too dry. It shows no accumulating snow til nearly 2pm, but the snow began at 11am.
  6. Models are really turding out over here. On the HRRR, the Omaha to Des Moines to Cedar Rapids to Dubuque corridor has fallen off the cliff on the north edge. Cedar Rapids is down to 2" while the others are <1". With that little snow, from only 0.1" precip, it may be difficult to even measure .
  7. The 00z NAM is quite a bit different for Iowa than the 12z... has really come back to Earth. The 3k NAM is drier for Chicagoland.
  8. 0.7" here today, just enough to require shoveling.
  9. Yeah, the Canadian is very weak and south. It predicts the western energy to be flatter instead of sharp and digging, so the storm's energy is just swept eastward with little amplification.
  10. The RDPS is well south of the NAM/Euro. The difference appears to have to do with the energy digging into the pacnw. The NAM/Euro dig the initial energy more southward and allow it to eject the Baha energy (our storm) out in front of it. The RDPS digs the initial pacnw energy more eastward so the Baha energy is held south and is unable to eject northeastward until the second piece of energy digs into the pacnw.
  11. The trend tonight is for the Canadian upper energy to be more suppressive and keep the midwest storm farther south.
  12. My snow total is 3.1". The liquid total is 0.48", so the ratio is lousy. It started out dry and cold with instant sticking and blowing. Now everything is soaking wet and it's raining. Kudos to the Euro for nailing this one for my area. From the start it had a colder atmosphere and a blob of 3-4" getting down to Cedar Rapids. Most models had little to no snow here until yesterday's runs.
  13. It would also be in the teens and very windy during this event.
  14. Whoa, the Euro is coming in hot and nw this run.
  15. Plenty of time, yes. However, there is a clear southeast trend on all models. The new Canadian has also shifted the heavy snow to my southeast... as did the 06z Euro.
  16. The GFS has now shifted the New Year's storm south, mostly in Missouri and Illinois. The southeast trend needs to stop or I'll end up with nothing.
  17. 1.3" here so far, the first measurable snow of the season.
  18. Models have consistently had Cedar Rapids on the sw edge of the snow, with a sharp gradient between 0 and 4" over my local area. That is playing out as the mix line is already up to the airport south of the city. If that line doesn't stop I could end up with only 1" while 4" falls 5-10 miles northeast.
  19. 00z Euro for Tuesday's system. Models tonight are showing a potential sneaky moderate event from ne IA into southern WI.
  20. I am currently getting a thunderstorm with hail. It's mostly pea size or smaller, but there were a few pieces up to 3/8 inch.
  21. When it's one model vs all others, I'm betting on the others. I expect to see flakes, but not much accumulation here. The Euro's 4" in CR looks like nonsense.
  22. My area has had four straight above to well above average snow seasons, so we were due for a dud.
  23. Same here. Mostly gusting to 50 mph, but a couple up to 60 mph.
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