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Classic looking dendrites. Deep snow is deep. Real deal winter.

Nice lookin steady light snow in an arctic airmass with a deep base. Nice to wake up to on a weekend morning. Good stuff.

Anyone seen any snow reports from northern Cook north of Evanston? Based on this afternoon's radar and the update above I'd guess 3"-4". Lake plume is finally beginning to shift north into Lake County. Let's see how transient it is. Yesterday's 3K NAM had a good read on the movement of the plume today.

Can make it out clearly on COD radar. Pretty sweet looking.

LOT popped off the advisory for Central Cook, Northern Cook, DuPage, and Lake for 2"-4"

Sounds reasonable. Lake band is looking a bit more impressive. Imagine the Winnetka/Wilmette area has picked up an inch or two. Flurries have commenced here.

Thinking MSN to MKE is in a good spot for a few fluffy inches. Should be a decent refresher down here, hoping for a boost from the lake. Would like to see the lake band move overhead and beef up as returns move in this afternoon/evening.

EarthCam from the Field is a fun watch rn. Thinking we won’t see the goods up here until the afternoon.

Bright and sunny morning here. Bring it.

12Z 3K NAM parks a decent looking band over northern Cook and Lake (IL) for several hours tomorrow. As always, hard to say if much will come out of it. Other hires models don't back it as far west.

Sorry to say I-80 is a dividing line for multiple storms pretty much every winter.

That’s a solid looking band. Should lead to some surprises.

Decent light snow atm, flake size is definitely bigger than pixies, but the band looks transient

Thread would be bumpin just a few weeks ago

Topped it off as the arctic front was blowing in

Gotta love an arctic front

Was using my iPhone to record one of the heavier bands about 30 mins ago and think I may have captured the only flash of lightning I've seen today. I noticed it with my eyes first and the video backed my brain up. It's subtle and nothing showed up on radar, but but take a look. About 33 seconds in after the video flips to slo-mo and pans up to the sky. Apologize for the portrait video, total rookie move. The lamp reflection is pretty tacky too. YouTube is supposedly still processing the HD version (not that it will make much of a difference).

This. We'll get our best accumulations separate from the best rates. The showery/convective depiction on radar, melting during lulls, dripping from trees reminds me of a spring system. Sure won't feel like spring in a couple hours.

Maybe a half inch so far. Poor accumulation rates, but fun to watch the big flakes fall for sure. It’ll stick better as the afternoon progresses. Front looks to be approaching the I-39 corridor over the next hour or so. It cleared DVN about an hour and a half ago.

Area of subsidence passed through quickly, back to the fatty fiesta.

Big fatties

Should have no problem accumulating with rates like that. Did temps drop with dynamic cooling?

HRRR seems pretty spot on with the heaviest amounts in that area/Dubuque area up through NE Wisconsin/UP.

I wouldn't worry much about what the temperature does between now and the flip early this afternoon. Still think we'll see about 2"-3" of new snow this afternoon.

Why odd?