Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Title is a little mis-leading, because as per my research, there's only been one winter storm that Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Toronto all had at least 6" of snow.....and that being.....January 1-3, 1999. I used Indianapolis as my baseline, and their 6"+ storms...and went and looked up the others to see what they got in those storms. 9 other storms came close, but one city failed in each case to get to 6". Regardless, we'll still take a peak at those storms later. First up, the storm that did achieve the hard-to-achieve...January 1-3, 1999: The New Year's Day Blizzard Chicago: 21.6" Columbus: 6.6" Detroit: 11.3" Indianapolis: 10.9" St. Louis: 8.0" Toronto: 8.6" (15.1" at the downtown station) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 March 19-20, 1906 Chicago: 3.4" Columbus: 10.0" Detroit: 6.7" Indianapolis: 12.3" St. Louis: 9.1" Toronto: 7.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 February 20-21, 1912 Chicago: 3.4" Columbus: 5.6" Detroit: 7.3" Indianapolis: 10.3" St. Louis: 15.6" Toronto: 8.6" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 December 18-20, 1973 Chicago: 9.8" Columbus: 1.1" Detroit: 11.2" Indianapolis: 13.0" St. Louis: 12.0" Toronto: 9.7" (13.6" at the downtown station) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 January 25-27, 1978: The Cleveland Superbomb Chicago: 12.4" Columbus: 4.7" Detroit: 10.1" Indianapolis: 15.5" St. Louis: 7.5" Toronto: 4.6" (6.1" at the downtown station) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 February 10-11, 1981 Chicago: 11.2" Columbus: 1.6" Detroit: 8.6" Indianapolis: 6.1" St. Louis: 7.9" Toronto: 4.1" (5.0" at the downtown station) Track sorta reminiscent of Jan 1999, and the relative results... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 February 27-29, 1984 Chicago: 1.6" (MDW COOP had 6.6") Columbus: 9.5" Detroit: 6.9" Indianapolis: 13.2" St. Louis: 8.5" Toronto: 6.0" (14.5" at the downtown station) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 February 12-14, 2007: Valentine's Day Blizzard Chicago: 10.2" Columbus: 6.2" Detroit: 10.4" Indianapolis: 8.5" St. Louis: 2.7" Toronto: 4.0" (5.7" at the downtown station) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 And the last two...for which I have no storm track loops...but should be familar considering they happened last winter. January 5-6, 2014 Chicago: 11.7" Columbus: 0.3" Detroit: 11.0" Indianapolis: 11.4" St. Louis: 10.8" Toronto: 5.0" (1.7" at the downtown station) February 4-5, 2014 Chicago: 7.0" Columbus: 10.6" Detroit: 8.0" Indianapolis: 7.4" St. Louis: 4.6" Toronto: 6.3" (8.7" at the downtown station) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 That '73 storm impresses me with the fact that track did that much damage. I assume the Columbus got bitten by the TWOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 I assume the Columbus got bitten by the TWOD. Yep. 12/19/1973: 37˚/24˚/0.04"/0.3" 12/20/1973: 40˚/25˚/0.81"/0.8" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Awesome as usual Tim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 Thanks Josh, I appreciate it. I made an addition of Toronto to the thread as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Thanks Josh, I appreciate it. I made an addition of Toronto to the thread as well. Appreciate it man, thanks! Amazing thread. It would be great if we could all cash in on the same storm, but that seems to be rare based on your research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 Appreciate it man, thanks! Amazing thread. It would be great if we could all cash in on the same storm, but that seems to be rare based on your research. Our sub-forum covers a lot of real estate...thus, pretty hard for everyone to cash at the same time. But, there are certainly some examples of a lot of us doing well enough in the same storm. Just need more Jan 1999's and we'll be all good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 yea neat stuff. I don't think the January 5th storm last year should be included (for cmh). I don't recall any snow at all. If we did get .3" it was snow showers with the arctic front the next day. As far as 1999, 6.3" seems low, but I guess that's the official airport record. I know it was closer to 9 imby as well as in a lot of the suburbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardof96 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Cool analysis. Thanks for including YYZ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Cool thread. I like how the depth of the surface low in the 78 blizzard has trouble being resolved on those maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 We almost had another candidate this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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