Nov 28-30th Post Turkey Day Winter Storm

[SchaumburgStormer]

Def a marathon of snow today. Real good day to sit inside and watch some football. 

[SnowGoose69]

4 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Def a marathon of snow today. Real good day to sit inside and watch some football. 

NW/Illinois and Mich State/Maryland are going to be interesting games.  Looks like OSU/Mich will be mostly done before its impactful

[hawkeye_wx]

Winners and losers so far.  Parts of southern Iowa are getting hosed by a persistent dry pocket that models absolutely did not show at all.

 

[cyclone77]

2 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

Winners and losers so far.  Parts of southern Iowa are getting hosed by a persistent dry pocket that models absolutely did not show at all.

 

That dry pocket was heading this way and I was like nope, not today ma nature and she filled it back in. 

[ChiTownSnow]

Flake quality increasing overhead.  

[andyhb]

Des Moines looks like it’s getting hammered.

[jlauderdal]

Flake size and intensity has increased significantly in the last 30, we hit 10 if this is how its going to go from here on out

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Hard not to be optimistic about an overachiever here with the hi-res models showing no snow until noon, yet we’ve had parachutes falling for several hours and between 0.5”-1” down.  Very high ratio stuff

[SchaumburgStormer]

14 minutes ago, jlauderdal said:

Flake size and intensity has increased significantly in the last 30, we hit 10 if this is how its going to go from here on out

Yep, really cranking nicely right now. 

[ChiTownSnow]

Anybody got any calc on ratios thus far? 

[Chambana]

Let’s all just take a moment and appreciate the extremely fast start to winter, something that has been severely lacking the last several years. To all those in the jackpot, congrats and keep uploading pics! Still a good storm here too 

[mimillman]

Reflectivity looks great to the southwest of Chicago. Going to be a prolonged period of 0.5-1” per hour rates coming up

[jlauderdal]

4 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Yep, really cranking nicely right now. 

Heavy snow is ahead of schedule(wasnt looking good earlier), math is in our favor to hit double digits after that last uptick and it looks good upstream.  I will be on the move shortly, will see how the afternoon goes. Congrats to the board , I know its been a tough, I sense PTSD, lol. 

[ChiTownSnow]

1 minute ago, mimillman said:

Reflectivity looks great to the southwest of Chicago. Going to be a prolonged period of 0.5-1” per hour rates coming up

Some specs of 25-30 dbz starting to show up on radar 

[sbnwx85]

Things are on track here. It’s been snowing for a couple of hours and we have about a half inch so far. Consistently snowing with flake size and rate gradually improving. The radar looks great.

[NEILwxbo]

4 minutes ago, mimillman said:

Reflectivity looks great to the southwest of Chicago. Going to be a prolonged period of 0.5-1” per hour rates coming up

Last hour received 0.4” at ORD, with heavier returns moving in now & vis down to 1/2SM, should be north of 0.5/hr rate going forward for awhile. 

[metallica470]

9 minutes ago, mimillman said:

Reflectivity looks great to the southwest of Chicago. Going to be a prolonged period of 0.5-1” per hour rates coming up

In it right now.  Its the real deal! Looks like a snow globe out here!