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Suppression = Depression

Our peak depth was 6.7" at around 2 PM (EST), but have already lost a couple of inches to melting/compaction with the marginal temps, kind of a letdown. Was cool to see periods of +sn though.

Thanks for giving me confidence in my call.

I'm a winter lover and also enjoy following any kind of anomalous weather, but as I get older (just turned 65), I just want that type of cold to keep its a$$ up in Canada.

I'm riding Malacka11's favorite model at 10:1.

Me kicked back watching model run after model run having FWA in the sweet spot for max snowfall potential, while the ORD crowd laments a possible miss south and the Ohio group fretting about mixing issues Me when the track takes a last minute 75 mile shift northwest or southeast I'm realistically calling for 5.5" here.

No. 1 event of the year here. Still spitting flurries, but just measured 2.6" on the ol' snowboard. Kinda depressing that we are in late January and that's the deepest snow we've seen.

TOL and us down here in FWAland are rowing the same boat. Sitting under the bullseye 72 hours out, but not at all confident that it is the final solution.

Top 3 event here and maybe #1, as it is still snowing. We had 2.2" on 11/12 and 2.5" on 12/22. 1.9" at my 7AM CoCoRaHS reading, so it might approach the magical 2.5" mark.

Might as well get used to it - See the Chicago Weather Records thread.

Thought I'd move this over here so as to not clutter up the storm thread. Eight of the top 15 February Chicago snow totals have occurred in the past 15 years. Looks like quite a trend to me. 1. 2011 29" 3. 2015 26.8" 6. 2016 22.5" 8. 2008 21.8" 9. 2021 21.6" T 11. 2018 20.3" T 11. 2007 20.3" 15. 2014 19.5"

Several recent ORD Februarys are insulted by those posts

Call it intuition, but I think we'll score in this area (North Central/Northeast IN) even if it comes as multiple minor events over the next 10 days or so. Anyone down toward I 70 might as well post the Eurythmics.

The Watch just went up for the eastern couple of tiers of counties in IN and the whole western half of Ohio.

I vote for cromartie

Thanks for the input. It really brings to light some of the factors that goes into issuing products. It will be interesting to see how it affects forecast wording when advisories finally drop. Sorry to completely derail the thread. Now back to your regularly scheduled short/medium range discussion which looks to be more interesting next week.

I also see green when I look out my back door. I got tired of dragging the push mower out to hit that little spot in my back yard. (I use the rider on the rest of the yard.) Artificial grass FTW.

First of all, I know this is way off-topic for this thread, but who's gonna put me in AMwx jail? That's interesting because at IWX, they are really promoting using "impact-based messaging" and I assumed that this is the mantra NWS wide. Maybe part of the problem is rigidity of following the criteria for meeting a particular product. For example, at IWX the criteria for heavy snow is 3-5" for a WWA (or 2-4" at the forecaster's discretion), and greater than 6" in 12 hours or 8" in 24 hours for a Warning. In conversations I've had with their WCM, I got the impression that in the past, they may have gotten their wrist slapped for "overwarning" an event. For example, upgrading to a Winter Storm Warning for 5" of snow, even though there were exacerbating conditions such as blowing snow or glaze ice underneath the snowpack. It seems that with impact-based forecasting, they've loosened up some and given the individual forecaster some leeway in issuing products. Just my point of view, maybe some NWS mets can chime in.

Congrats ORD/DTW. Cold rain with wraparound mood flakes for FWA, per usual.

So I see the new media buzzword to add to "polar vortex" is "atmospheric river."

Alek style

A graphic by a local station shows just how streaky temps were last month. Seventeen out of 31 days were above normal, but the bitter cold before Christmas drove us to below normal for the month.

As of Midnight last night -9.36" https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=ind&product=CLI&issuedby=ind

Lol

Anxiously awaiting my Boxing Day turd duster