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we had our first sunset after 5 pm a couple days ago. Next big milestone on our march to spring is 10 hours of daylight, which we'll get on Feb 2.

sun coming out here and mood flakes winding down.  thinking around 6.5" here total.  Anywhere between 6"-10" in the county, most NW.  

still lightly snowing here.  Family member got 9.5" in the NW part of Dane County.  They were under the heavy fronto band for about 3 hours last night.

got about 6" here, with some drifts of well over a foot.  Roads look to be a mess

3.8” at MSN as of 6 AM 

Des Moines up to 12.6" storm total

O'Hare at 3.1"

Quad Cities at 6.1"

Estimating 4” or so outside right now.  The heaviest band has set up just north of town

Snow starting here as a wall of 25 dBz reflectivities hit us.  Moderate sized flakes right now 

Dry air holding out here for now but slowly slowly losing the battle.  Ceilings down to 1700 feet 

5 minutes ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Per radar, snow advancement into WI seems to have stalled in Lafayette/southern Grant Counties for now.

*Edit: Kinda odd that DVN shows it pushing into southern Dane, but MKX doesn't. Must be virga.

Probably won't fully saturate here until 7 or so.  Should be some good rates between 2-6 AM

if we get over 4" here the v16 GFS is the real winner.  Was hammering the N trend for a while

Even the GFS has us getting 6+” in 24 hours.  Have to imagine we’ll get at least an advisory with the overnight package 

Can’t wait to luck ourselves into a warning criteria storm

1 hour ago, Natester said:

What about February 5-6, 2008?  I swear we got a foot from that.

Man that was the ultimate nut storm around here.  Got about 18” at my house iirc 

I for one am proud of starting a thread for a storm that’s gonna drop 2” max

Wagons north

24 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Yet another odd quirk of this Winter. Not counting today's snow at either place, Chicago has only seen 8.6" of snow this season but has had 21 days with 1"+ of snow on the ground (granted the peak death was 2"). Detroit has seen 16.3" of snow but has only had 14 days with 1" or more of snow on the ground.  As you head farther east of us the snowfall and snow cover days disparity widens even more. Your guys snow came right in time for the legendary Zzzz period. 

It hasn’t been a completely classic La Niña winter but this is a classic hallmark as you head further East 

lots of panicking here right now.  take a deep breath everyone.  Still a warning criteria snow for W of I39 and the lakeshore counties.

A little under 2” here overnight 

The v16 GFS (para) is performing much better overall than the current operational GFS so far this winter 

Snow started around 9 here.  A dusting on the ground already 

GFS continues to show a minor hit for the southern half of Indiana and Ohio 

Could see us flirting with 6” here(2” from tonight’s wave and 4” from the main low) if the N drift continues 

10 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

Coldest temp of the season so far this morning here at zero.  DVN also bottomed out at zero, and MLI at 2 above.  Still awaiting that first subzero temp at all locations.

Got down to 0 here.  Just like last year, waiting a long time to get that first below zero temp

24 hour storm total on NAM ending Tuesday morning at 6.  Snow still going from about Chicago eastward