Winter 2025-26 Short Range Discussion

[sbnwx85]

Official stats from South Bend:

12.6” fell on Wednesday setting a record for max snowfall for January 14.

It is the 17th day in South Bend history with a foot or more of snowfall.

Another 4” fell overnight bringing the storm total to 16.6”.

These stats are taken from the north side of town, so my 11”+3” =14” here on the south side would fall in line.

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1237 AM EST THU JAN 15 2026

...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL SET AT SOUTH BEND...

A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 12.6 INCHES WAS SET AT SOUTH BEND YESTERDAY.
THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 6.0 INCHES SET IN 1985.

 

[Stevo6899]

26 minutes ago, dmc76 said:

7.3”  still snowing 

Our biggest snow of the winter gonna be when 1-2 was forecasted. Just goes to show how much the models struggle with phasing. It rained this morning in florida for the first time in weeks and the roads are slick. I can't imagine how bad the roads are there with temps in the teens.

[dmc76]

10 minutes ago, Stevo6899 said:

Our biggest snow of the winter gonna be when 1-2 was forecasted. Just goes to show how much the models struggle with phasing. It rained this morning in florida for the first time in weeks and the roads are slick. I can't imagine how bad the roads are there with temps in the teens.

Roads are trashed. Salt is useless 

[dmc76]

[dmc76]

Just a little off 

[Chinook]

So I guess this is the best storm Toronto has had in a decade. I'm not sure what any Canadian posters may have to say about this. I can't remember them ever boasting about 9.6" in the entire time AmericanWX has existed. 

and other storm reports of 6"-14.5" near Cleveland, 10"-20" by South Bend

 

 

 

 

[Stevo6899]

25 minutes ago, Chinook said:

So I guess this is the best storm Toronto has had in a decade. I'm not sure what any Canadian posters may have to say about this. I can't remember them ever boasting about 9.6" in the entire time AmericanWX has existed. 

and other storm reports of 6"-14.5" near Cleveland, 10"-20" by South Bend

 

 

 

 

Oh to be in that band north of the city right now. Prob 3 inches an hour and it's stationary. 

[Powerball]

5 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

I honestly think this is the biggest bust I've ever seen. The forecast the night before yesterday called for a 30% chance of snow showers. Then yesterday morning it was a 50% chance. No accumulation mentioned in the grids byt the forecast discussion mentioned a dusting to less than an inch.

Sounds like a general 5-7" in the Detroit area. Still lightly snowing.

The biggest bust was Feburary 4-6, 2011.

DTW getting 6" exactly with this event though is funny...

[Powerball]

1 hour ago, Stevo6899 said:

Our biggest snow of the winter gonna be when 1-2 was forecasted. Just goes to show how much the models struggle with phasing. It rained this morning in florida for the first time in weeks and the roads are slick. I can't imagine how bad the roads are there with temps in the teens.

 

We had some surprise stratiform rain last week (it only amounted to a couple tenths of a inch) in the midst of what's been an otherwise extended dry spell, and yeah, the roads were also trash.

[michsnowfreak]

1 hour ago, Powerball said:

The biggest bust was Feburary 4-6, 2011.

DTW getting 6" exactly with this event though is funny...

Id call the two busts comparable. Feb 5, 2011 had a forecast of partly sunny and ended up with 4-6". Yesterday had a forecast of dusting to less than an inch and had 4-7

[sbnwx85]

Dog days of winter

[michsnowfreak]

6.2" total here. 24.4" season. Lots of drifting overnight. A shocking model failure.