11/8-11/10 First Snow and Lake Effect Event

[TheNiño]

We’ve really cashed in the last couple seasons here in Kenosha. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 3in/hr right now visibility is basically zero. Pretty surprising I thought the main band would be well south of here but we’re getting hammered. 

[KeenerWx]

40 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

It is looking like downtown, ORD and MDW will miss out on the best of this one.

There are two areas of interest for maximum accumulation totals. Location #1 will be from the Gary-Valpo area down to the Kankakee area, where snowfall is maximized on the backside of the meso-low. Location #2 will be from around Kenosha down to around Lake Forest, where the main single band looks to have found it's spot to park for several hours.

Someone(s) in Lake, Porter, La Porte, St Joe counties will likely net 14-18” based on available reports and what is left with this event. 
 

Likely top tier lake driven event for Kankakee county and points southward as well. Less knowledgeable about their local history with LES but I have to imagine it’s limited on noteworthy events. 

[TheNiño]

The current situation 

 

[Chicago WX]

1 hour ago, KeenerWx said:

Someone(s) in Lake, Porter, La Porte, St Joe counties will likely net 14-18” based on available reports and what is left with this event. 
 

Likely top tier lake driven event for Kankakee county and points southward as well. Less knowledgeable about their local history with LES but I have to imagine it’s limited on noteworthy events. 

3.5" here at 4:00 am. Looking at radar since this started, the eastern half of the county (east of IKK) will do best. But yeah, only a handful of "pure" LES events that dropped 3"+ here, that I can recall. Last one was in the winter of 2013-14 (Jan 21-22).   

[KeenerWx]

Pessimism got the best of me. Ended up adding another 3.5” tonight. With last night’s 1.8” and an additional 0.3” in the morning, event total is up to 5.6”. Depth ~ 4.9” with the melt earlier today. Bottom inch or so is quite iced. Tonight reminded me more of deep winter rather than early to mid November. 

Between the meso swinging south and the dominate band shifting back east through Monday, it’s feasible to pick up another inch. Locally “historic”. Will surpass the 2004 Thanksgiving storm totals at least.

Perhaps most interesting tonight is that we had steady to heavy snow even without much or any radar presentation. Nothing too crazy but ~ 1” per hour based on measurement. Can’t imagine what it was like under the heavy returns. 

[A-L-E-K]

Dab+ lol

[TheNiño]

We’ll see what the official totals are but it’s not done yet 

[KeenerWx]

Hot damn. Report of 12” from Momence in Kankakee County. Not surprising giving radar presentation. Still going. At this point basically sealed as an all time lake event for them.