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IWX says that the blob northwest of the city is "plant induced snow". I am assuming that they mean factory releases.

We agree

Even with little snow, I consider this winter. Florida says, "Hi"

That's the crux of the problem. Your definition of winter differs from most of the general public's, including me. Our climo features weeks of highs in the thirties and lows in the twenties and teens which most would consider winter weather whether or not that includes snow. People who aren't weenies consider snow and cold a nuisance to their day-to-day lives.

Yeah, our string got ruined by one unwarranted Watch in Northern IN or we would be right there with MI, Northern IL, and Northern OH.

Since Hoosier seems to be laying down on the job, I guess I'll post the end-of-month never fail CFSv2. Get out your suntan lotion and galoshes.

Quite the IN/OH sucker hole.

That 12/3-12/4 storm looks eerily like what just happened with track and moisture, although not winding up as early.

8.4" is the final total at ORD. PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 233 PM CST MON NOV 26 2018 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 1200 PM SNOW OHARE AIRPORT 41.98N 87.90W 11/26/2018 M8.4 INCH COOK IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL. 1200 PM SNOW NWS CHICAGO-ROMEOVILLE 41.60N 88.08W 11/26/2018 M2.9 INCH WILL IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL AT NWS CHICAGO IN ROMEOVILLE, IL.

It's really fun to be tracking a major storm system in November and I'm happy for the weenies to my north and west that are about to get blasted, but it sure comes at a cost for those of us in Indiana and Ohio who will only get to experience mood flakes, blustery winds, and temps that be below normal even for mid January standards this week. Obviously really early and I'm hopeful that our turn will come, but in the meantime cold and dry sucks.

The correct response is, "Thank you Izzi at LOT for the between AFDs update."

As someone said earlier, I wouldn't want to be on the forecast desk with the major track waffling amongst the globals. IWX is in the same boat even though the heavy snow band will be northwest of most of the CWA, although wind and temps will be an issue here. In fact, when asked about it earlier, here is the reply : (5:07 PM) abc57-tyler.sebree: Thoughts on the GFS vs. EURO battle on Sunday? Ugh. (5:19 PM) nwsbot: IWX issues Hazardous Weather Outlook (HWO) (5:23 PM) nwsiwx-megan.dodson: *Slams head into wall*

Leave it to our fearless moderator to break out the Navy. If the GFS holds course, even I'll be smiling.

You don't post much anymore, but you sure bring the good stuff when you do! Happy Thanksgiving to you.

You are on the warm side of the temperature gradient. We are looking at 34° and breezy here today.

What an unusual month. I just checked my CoCoRaHS record and I have seen flakes flying on 11 days this month with more chances next week. Granted, it has only been trace amounts, but it is something I'm used to seeing in February, not November. I would venture to guess that it is more likely to see one relatively large snow event than this practically constant snow flurries/showers. Happy Thanksgiving every one (Go Bears).

Right, I meant in this part of the world. Interesting little fujiwharalike thing.

I don't remember a low doing that, and I'm older than dirt.

Chris used to work at WPTA in Ft. Wayne before moving to Columbus. We are losing a good one.

Maybe the models are beginning to sniff out a big dog around the end of the month when the pattern flips to full-fledged winter as guidance is depicts the ice box opening up.

Anytime you can get 3" this early, you're doing well.

Well said.

I really suck at this but I'll try to get my entries in this weekend

I give forecasters props when they nail something, but IWX blew chunks on this one. I was expecting around an inch or two of snow this morning, but woke to zr and an ice storm warning until noon. The warning never came close to verifying with ice accretion to maybe 0.2" tops, no tree limbs down, no power outages, and actually very few wrecks or other issues. Then at 10 AM they posted a map (that I shared here earlier) showing a flip to snow with 3-4" of snow for a large portion of Northern IN which I knew when they posted it had a snowball's chance in hell of happening. So I post it to our Agency Facebook page anyway and it turns into a public $hIt$torm. I know, I know, wrong thread. Carry on.

IWX issued a WWA for Northern IN. So far just zr here, but per the map below, they are thinking 3-4" of the white stuff soon. Seems a little high to me, but we'll see.