mimillman

26 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

February 8-9, 2018 begs to differ on them never panning out for Chicago. Also December 31-January 1, 2014. And December 10-11, 2016. It's the nature of fairly narrow snow bands to miss sometimes. I don't think from experience here that we do worse than elsewhere with these fgen banding events.


 

Of course that’s not to say that this WILL pan out for Chicagoland, it’s just wrong to say they never do. Still a toss up in my mind 

24 minutes ago, Baum said:

these never pan out for chicago. Milwaukee or bust. not hard.

That’s wrong 

Getting about a 50/50 RN/SN mix downtown at the office 

50 minutes ago, Chicago916 said:

For the crazy SREF watchers, going to get a LOL worthy run at 21z. Going to be interesting if by some miracle the American models end up being correct about a stronger more NW storm. 

The spread is bi-modal with a cluster of MB members at 2-4” and a cluster of AR members at 6-8”

Not so crazy if you believe one over the other which gets you closer to globals

4 minutes ago, RogueWaves said:

Heard the SREFs look better

If only it wasn’t the SREF

Long live futility. Long shall she reign

5 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Map us

32 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

A good one would be will MSP get to 60" before ORD gets to 20"?

Given the overall look in the extended, it's a non-zero chance that ORD gives that one a run.

I don’t think so

18z euro to Chicagoland: do not pass go, do not collect $200

11 minutes ago, RogueWaves said:

Dayton with 7"

Chicago what has happened to you??

We’re just like Lansing 

Quality accums in the city today 

4 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

p confident we see a northern max band that overperforms somewhere over the cwa with a subsidence screw zone between it and the main systems snows further south out of our area

There is a strong signal for that yes 

2 minutes ago, Cary67 said:

Despite the outlier NW 12Z GFS track; main snows still stay SE from Central IL over to DTW. As Euro seems fairly locked in will go 1.5" far NW, 2-3" downtown and southside, 5" Kankakee

 

 

 

Reasonable 

1 minute ago, Baum said:

he doubled his totals from yesterday. Consider him on board the hype train.

I didn’t make a call yday, I just took the under on 2.5” which I’ll still hold for ORD

Going to call a general 1-3” across LOT CWA with potentially 4” in the SE. It should rival the great Christmas blizzard of 2022 in terms of its impressive snow totals. 2” would be the first of the season  Chicago, aka basically Atlanta.

Top 5 event of the year

We have about 1/4” on non paved surfaces which is roughly in line with expectations 

Just now, Hoosier said:

Yeah.  Perfect would be a 36 or 48 hr map.

This should be close enough 

1 hour ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

DAB our my way. Northern cutoff will be brutal. 

 

At this point I pulling for futility, this winter has been hot garbage 

Seconded

1 hour ago, A-L-E-K said:

2.5 final call 

I’ll take the under. 

No clue why this thread is so active 

Personally I’d rather live in Chicago with 4.7” of snow this season than live in Nebraska getting 12-18” this system.

But that’s just me.

No offense to those of you who live in Nebraska.

1 hour ago, Hoosier said:

Omg it's gonna snow this weekend.

The good news is western New York will be at 200” by the end of the month and that evens out the national average, so really we’re all winners!!

20 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Oh it's been bad.  I was just being sarcastic.  Solid winter wx has been harder to find than cheap eggs.

It’s because of soybean meal.

And poor fertility rates