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I guess this is off topic. Anyone else dealing with fog in the Chicago area, or is this just smoke and pollution in northwest Indiana from the refinery burning off excess product from the power outage? It’s thick and can see ‘clouds’ of it blowing by out the window.

I know there are a lot of opinions on this event, but gotta feel bad for those that were excited for it. At best they may get a few hours of driving in. All the fanfare, etc have pretty much been canceled with this mesolow sitting and dumping on the city.

Guess I was wrong about the roads. They are a slushy mess already.

Really impressive with unrelenting big flakes and 37F temperature. It’s trying really hard to stick to grassy areas. Even if this turns into several inches I dont see the roads becoming much of an issue with the temps.

The roads are no joke already. Grass is still visible but the pavement is whitening, and as someone pointed out already there is a glaze of ice underneath. Will be a rough afternoon for anyone traveling, which has been the clear messaging from the NWS.

Funny to see the local news alerts backtrack on yesterdays forecast totals. ABC7 Alert: Significant changes to our winter storm forecast! Tune in at 10pm. Had family trying to reschedule Friday holiday plans after yesterdays headlines. And I’m talking about a 2 mile trip across town. Imagine by then it will be very cold but manageable conditions.

Pretty wicked winds out of this storm. Lots of flickering power.

Top shelf evening - and on a weekend to boot. Drove home with all the windows down and the music up.

Anyone notice this big yellow ball of fire in the sky today? What’s up with that? It hurts my eyes.

It was glorious and my mood immediately flipped, and then back to the gray stuff with spitting rain no less.

Just here to gripe as well. This pattern has finally gotten to me. The cloudiness is relenting and depressing. Also we can’t even get filtered sun, or breaks in the clouds. It’s just a thick never ending blanket of gray.

Quality squall. Surprised the thunderstorm warning wasn’t extended into Indiana. Edit: looks like warning just extended east. Already sunny here, so a bit late.

Just shoveled driveway. I’d say 3-4” in extreme NW IN and snowing good now.

Wow this is some pasty stuff. The trees are beautiful. Will be a nice backdrop to the ongoing event. Now, about that wind some were mentioning for tomorrow…

I’m sitting at a Blackhawks game spending most for my attention on this thread and showing my wife the memes. Best entertainment of the week.