mimillman

I’ve been commenting about it in the medium range thread until we get a bit closer

The main focus during the end of the week and into the upcoming weekend remains on the potential for another round of accumulating lake effect snow (potentially a long-duration event) as another sprawling ~1050 mb arctic high descends out of Saskatchewan and Manitoba late Thursday night into Friday. As this occurs, 850 mb temperatures are forecast to drop to around minus 20 C, which in turn will result in building inversion heights over the lake. LES parameters certainly look sufficient to support periods of more intense lake effect snow, with lake- induced ELs nearing 9-10 kft at times, especially through Friday with 850 mb temps forecast to warm through Saturday. Initial LES looks to develop late Thursday night into early Friday morning. It`s possible that this initial activity has a somewhat difficult time organizing given some degree of wind shear in the boundary layer as a synoptic scale trough pivots southwest out of the Upper Great Lakes. By later Friday night and Saturday, however, guidance depicts generally lessening shear as the bulk of the atmospheric flow shifts northeasterly. Guidance then depicts LES organizing into a single dominant band during this time as low-level convergence maximizes down the long axis of the lake. During this time, ELs are forecast to fall a bit as 850 mb temps warm, which may have a bit of a modulating effect on LES intensity. That said, given the progged increasing convergence, even 6-7 kft ELs will be more than sufficient to support periods of heavier snowfall. At this point, it remains too early to hone in on specifics, but guidance trends continue towards an impactful period of lake effect snow in our area, including Chicago, parts of NE and east-central Illinois, and NW Indiana from late Thursday night through Saturday night, and possibly even through Sunday. Guidance at this time does indicate the potential for quite a bit of band wobbling, which in turn could limit residence times and overall totals, but a more quasistationary north-south oriented band is also advertised (CMC, UKMET for example). Temperatures in the teens and single digits will have the potential to exacerbate impacts due to a very light/fluffy snow and lessened effectiveness of road treatments.

I thought this set up typically favors N Central IN

Bro don’t you live in Florida

Pats/broncos snow should cheer you up

Starting to wind down as the LE rotates into southern Cook. I wasn’t here for the thanksgiving weekend storm so this is definitely a treat. Plus seeing the split band LE this side of the lake was a big highlight

In Chicago they plow the 606 before the roads. And yes I saw 4 runners

About 7” down and temp is noticeably dropping

1/2-3 2014 was awesome. Still coming down nicely here

Huge flakes under these LE bands

Daysha is loving it

Fluffiest snow I’ve shoveled in years

SN+

Cook county getting the LE goods for once

Snowglobe. Probably close to 5” down

About 1” down here

Evanston - Lakeview gonna get it

Sounds like you busted then

Steady SN- roads covered

All surfaces coated here in a razor thin dusting

Epic season for you guys. Last season like that for Chicago was 2020-2021 and still lots more to go. You’ll end up probably with a something more similar to what 2014 was to us

What is your total so far this season

Tiny flakes in Logan square

Looks like 9”

This is the biggest storm for Indianapolis since Jan 2014 I presume?