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  1. hawkeye_wx
    Another 2.8" here overnight with another decent band moving through now. It is very pretty out there. This entire messy system has worked out pretty well for my area.
  2. hawkeye_wx
    It's looking pretty solid over here. The second wave's defo band seems to be backing plenty far nw to drop a few inches here.
  3. hawkeye_wx
    As usual, I'm going to lean conservative and guess 2" for Cedar Rapids.
  4. hawkeye_wx
    My wave 1 snow total is 2.9". It seemed fairly fluffy last night, but it seemed a bit wetter and heavier while shoveling this morning. My liquid total in the gauge is 0.29", so it's close to 10:1.
  5. hawkeye_wx
    The Chicago area folks won't like the 12z HRRR. It's pretty rainy.
  6. hawkeye_wx
    We peaked at 30-31º, then fell back to 29º during the better snow. With the snow done, it's back to 30º.
  7. hawkeye_wx
    I picked up 2.2" from the first wave. The snow seems fairly fluffy. I was hoping light snow would continue all night, but it looks mostly over. Maybe I can pick up a couple more inches if the wave 2 defo band can get up here in decent shape.
  8. hawkeye_wx
    I'm up to 1.4" now, so that's an addition 0.5" over the last 1.5 hours, a decent 0.33"/hr rate. That will add up over several hours.
  9. hawkeye_wx
    After six hours of precip, I'm at 0.9" of snow. Of course, it's snowing and accumulating better now than earlier.
  10. hawkeye_wx
    Real snow has finally commenced over here.
  11. hawkeye_wx
    The snow is really struggling to get going over here. For a couple hours it was mostly very light freezing rain and sleet. Now it's just brief spurts of flurries.
  12. hawkeye_wx
    The area of light precip moving through my area is flipping back and forth between very light freezing rain, sleet, and snow.... mostly non-snow. At this point, I'm not expecting any snow accumulation until later.
  13. hawkeye_wx
    It is switching to snow right now. This snow will have trouble sticking to the wet, dark pavement, but there is still a solid glaze of ice over the snowpack and patio, so I'll measure there.
  14. hawkeye_wx
    Precipitation just started here. At first it was a mix of very light sleet and snow. Now it is freezing rain with a bit of sleet.
  15. hawkeye_wx
    00z Euro
  16. hawkeye_wx
    More like cold. The main energy/moisture totally pivots around Iowa, dropping nothing on the state. The upper low has taken a giant leap south compared to this morning's 12z run.
  17. hawkeye_wx
    12z Euro
  18. hawkeye_wx
    The GFS just doesn't want to budge from the mostly-rain event.
  19. hawkeye_wx
    I'm sure there will be some breaks. Other models are showing a decent break after the initial wave. Plus, the rotating spokes of energy will probably have dry moats mixed in.
  20. hawkeye_wx
    At the end of the NAM run, there is still solid snow falling from Cedar Rapids to Chicago/Milwaukee. The last snow system lasted four hours. This week's event has the potential to last 60 hours. Now, if we could just pair the 1"/hr rates from the last event with the 48+ hour duration of this one, we'd really have something.
  21. hawkeye_wx
    The Iowa NWS offices are not excited about this long-duration system at all. They seem to be leaning toward the warmer/rainy GFS.
  22. hawkeye_wx
    The sleet over here has changed to freezing rain. There's a nice glaze on top of the snow/sleet.
  23. hawkeye_wx
    My snow total is 4.5".... a solid event. It's too bad we can't get those rates for longer than a few hours.
  24. hawkeye_wx
    The mix is surging northeast in Iowa. Des Moines and Ottumwa reported freezing rain at 4pm and it's very easy to see the switch line on nexrad CC. I just hope we can cross 5" before the switch occurs.
  25. hawkeye_wx
    Another 1.3" last hour, up to 3.9" total. Radar returns are generally weaker and not as solid to the west, but we could hit 5".
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