Congrats @Hoosier! Much to my surprise, Boone County got one too. Doesn’t mean I’ll get more snow, but pink on the weather map always looks better than purple.
I wouldn’t immediately discredit the LES shown on the hi-res models. Different circumstances, but they did pretty well with the Chicago LES storm last February.
Given the WWA’s immediately to my north in Wisconsin’s border counties, I’m expecting to lose my “storm watch” status for an advisory. But hopefully anyone here in “Chicagoland” does well.
Busting high on a prediction, in Price is Right terms, means you overbid. So if Alek gets 4 inches when he predicted 4.5, he busted high. If he gets 5 when he predicted 4.5, then he’ll bust low.
We’ll get you an 18” cylinder that sits in dry ice so that not a flake is lost in the measuring.
Seriously though, possibly super-obvious-answer question: What is the process for measuring snow at ORD? Is there a area specifically designated for it?