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A trained spotter measured 4.5 inches in Capron, IL (super close to me) at 8:13am. I’m going to guess that easily jumped over 5, maybe even 6 if they can chime in again later. If it hit 6 inches, that would be the top event of the season.

I am around 23 miles northeast of RFD, and 10 or so miles away from the IL/WI border. RFD, as of a little over an hour ago, picked up 3.1 inches from the snow band.

Appreciated. It was 80 degrees here around 3pm Friday. To go from that to this in about 40 hours is that late 90s/early 00s climate I remember growing up with.

Confirmed.

I’m going to be on the road at 10pm Friday. That orange blob inching closer to the cheddar curtain hopefully stays back.

Feels like it’s been 2-3 straight winter seasons of them overall. Storm on models for multiple days, showing 6+ as late as 24hrs before the event, and then only ends up being a 1-2 inch pixie duster.

Me, jumping on the forum for the first time in 4 hours looking for happy IL peeps: (Looking like a good one for Michigan)

The boom/bust potential being legit at both ends for the NE-IL area makes me not envy any of those mets.

10:1 map

GFS painting 5-6” at the cheddar curtain on the 10:1 maps.

10:17pm update:

I’m in the minority in Illinois but I’ve enjoyed the event so far from northern Boone county. 8:30-10am and currently are the heaviest it’s been, but the dry slot is creeping up. I don’t measure, so nothing official; but based solely on what I had to walk in with my dogs, seems like there’s more on the ground than what’s reported in Rockford.

Much like it was on the models, snow began in Poplar Grove around 8am.