1/24-1/25 Major Winter Storm - S. IL, IN, and OH

[Radtechwxman]

25 minutes ago, KeenerWx said:

Under banding as well and confirm it’s quite nice. Still feel a little nervous about hitting call of 3.9” but we’ll see how things evolve overnight. 

This banding has stuck around a while and longer than I anticipated. Nice change after pixie dust all afternoon. 

[mimillman]

About 1” down here 

[pen_artist]

About 7.5 miles away directly west of the lake in northern Oak Park. Like where I sit to hopefully get a couple inches out of this.

[Stevo6899]

28 minutes ago, Stebo said:

Its snowing here 7 hours ahead of schedule and already down to 2SM at DTW, under 5dBZ radar returns. I smell an overperformer coming. 

I can't recall last time we had a storm system the size of this one approaching with temps near zero

[sbnwx85]

Been pixie dusting most of the night but banding is improving greatly to the southwest and moving this way.

[NEILwxbo]

1 hour ago, A-L-E-K said:

Nice jebwalkin' weather 

Perfect 

[DocATL]

Maybe a little over half an inch here. Might exceed the anticipated inch.

[andyhb]

Looks like Ohio’s biggest storm in quite awhile. Notable banding setting up initially north of Cincinnati right now extending all the way back through S IN and IL.

[Chicago Storm]

The multiple meso-lows of earlier tonight have sort of morphed into a main one now, which is attempting to back towards MKE.

[Cincy12]

Sitting in between 2.5-3” currently


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[HillsdaleMIWeather]

Comin down pretty nicely rn, roads are covered. 

[AWMT30]

What a smack job on the 6z HRRR... Snow has started here with a good dusting so far. 

[buckeye]

3:30 am. Woke up looked out …holy sh*t.  
 

Now looking at radar, no way I can fall back asleep 

[vespasian70]

That band has produced!

[vespasian70]

How much are you thinking for us buck?

[AWMT30]

2 minutes ago, vespasian70 said:

How much are you thinking for us buck?

You Cbus guys gonna get 12-15" 

[buckeye]

15 minutes ago, vespasian70 said:

How much are you thinking for us buck?

I’ll just say better than 50/50 we hit 12” 

[KeenerWx]

Approaching 3” here on the northern fringes. CAMs suggest possibly 3-5” left in the tank. Often performative and too aggressive, but cutting in half still results in a respectful 4-5” storm total. Became a bit too pessimistic given endless sawdust. 

[andyhb]

That band from S IL through S IN into SW OH between Cincinnati and Dayton is a monster, spreading NE towards Columbus too.

[Pellice]

About 4" OTG in west Cincinnati.  Kind of an odd snow - fine, small flakes, but with a higher water content than I usually associate with small flakes.  It's 11F, but the snow is more like that I'd associate with 26-28F. Steady, moderate snow.

[A-L-E-K]

Doing quite well

[michsnowfreak]

Absolute snow globe outside and expecting snow all day. Deep winter.

[buckeye]

Gett’n buried

radar looks juiced

[buckeye]

Not even trying to plow

[JayPSU]

Gett’n buried
radar looks juiced

Yep! Looks like about 6-7” here already and absolutely hammering right now. Hrrr and RAP indicating this thing doesn’t push out until at least 7pm and dropping another 10”+. Back to bed for a few!


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[buckeye]

3 minutes ago, JayPSU said:

Yep! Looks like about 6-7” here already and absolutely hammering right now. Hrrr and RAP indicating this thing doesn’t push out until at least 7pm and dropping another 10”+. Back to bed for a few!


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Just took our dog out to pee.  Measured exactly 6” on the driveway

[A-L-E-K]

Fatties falling under this lake enhanced band

[AWMT30]

Still light and fine snowflakes here closing in on 1" as of 630. Better radar returns are starting to head this way. Not expecting to see heavy snow rates here but would appreciate if the snow rate would pick up just a little bit. 

 

Good to see the CBus crew getting wrecked. 

[A-L-E-K]

On 1/22/2026 at 5:31 PM, A-L-E-K said:

Going 6 final call imby with the long duration lightly lake enhanced graze job

$$$

[Powerball]

14 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

$$$

 

You'll be disappointed to know, there was no ice storm here.

Granted, roads are stilll trecherous enough. But not only was there virtually no freezing rain after the changeover from plain rain, but even the sleet amounts ended up underachieving.

Now it's dry slot city.