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

[mimillman]

Last gasp of this event. Very heavy rates downtown, roads covered again

 

[GaWx]

 What has been the approximate range of total snowfall for Chicago, itself, so far? I know there’s a last gasp now near the shoreline.

[mimillman]

3 minutes ago, GaWx said:

 What has been the approximate range of total snowfall for Chicago, itself, so far? I know there’s a last gasp now near the shoreline.

2-3” across the metro id say 

[tuanis]

Ended up with about 6” of lake effect fluff here in Libertyville. Better not be our best storm of the winter 

[MrFreeze6298]

Hello everyone, apparently there has been 10" of snowfall in Winthrop Harbor (a northern suburb of Chicago)!
 

[Jackstraw]

Leaves are covering the snow here. That's pretty funny. Snow plows and leaf blowers lol. Great Sat loop of the Great Lakes as the upper low recedes to the S revealing the extent of it's early season cover....

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G19&sector=cgl&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12

[vortex]

From a friend who lives between Kankakee and Momence. 
 

[migratingwx]

That last band was really nice, winding down now and the sky is clearing as I look to my northwest. 

[Orange county]

Many moons ago I use to drive/hitchhike from Madison Wis to Indianapolis

On more than one occassion I would get to the  Big Turn South, past Gary I guess it was, and there was that weird Lake effect snow-like a sorcerer had cast a spell on that part of Lake country

[michsnowfreak]

Neat event. Looks like the jackpot areas saw 10-12".

Over here, our 1.2" of heavy wet snow yesterday half melted then we got another 1.3" from the Lake Huron band in the evening. It was gorgeous this morning as the last gasps of autumn mixed with the early touch of winter, temps in the mid 20s with wind chills mid teens.

Snow totals were 2.5" my backyard, 2.2" DTW. Some areas in the thumb/Port Huron saw 4-6". Totals varied widely throughout SE MI, with some spots getting as little as 0.5" to as much as 6". Detroit-south saw the most snow in the morning (1-3") and then the eastern suburbs saw the most in the evening (1-6").

[tuanis]

The combo of the fresh snow and the remaining fall foliage can’t be beat. It’s already melting off the warm-ish driveway, I’m not even going to shovel. Score!

[Chicago Storm]

4 hours ago, Powerball said:

While it was an impressive setup on paper, it's not surprising that it busted for Chicago at least.

Aside from the convective nature of LES, it is much harder to get stationary banding on the west side of the lake.

The thing is, there was stationary banding, two in fact. The issue was more that the core of the metro was just split by both bands, just due to unfavorable positioning. The main-full lake plume ended up too far west (Racine-Kenosha-Waukegan) and the southern lake/meso-low band was too far south (Lake Co, IN to Iroquois Co).