London snowsquall

Currently in prince Edward county west of Kingston ON just north of lake Ontario. Blizzard conditions most of the time. Son in law rescued local farmer lost in a nearby field. He was totally lost and disoriented. The local road in front of daughter's house is impassable with 5 ft. drifts. Top wind gust locally to 128kph. Here - this is definitely a blizzard.

Good area for squalls, but not as good as Owen Sound. The in-laws come from Midland - that's prime too. How much snow on the ground?

Where exactly are you located - north of Listowel? Always wondered....

Agreed. Seems there is occasional casual use of the terms blizzard or whiteout by some, for situations that do not come close to qualifying. A foot and a half of snow, wind gusts to 80mph and zero visibility for nine straight hours meant a blizzard of unique ferocity. Never seen anything since that has even come close. Eight people died here, including some who got lost in the storm and froze to death, and a family of 5 who died in their stranded vehicle waiting for rescue from the highway. I wonder how many on this board experienced this storm.

It snowed for a couple hours last night and then basically nothing for the night. It started up again around 6 this morning and has been going since then. We maybe have 5-10cms for the storm so far, so not a total fail. We are basically a synoptic wasteland here, so reading the comments from the Rochester/Syracuse folks it's easy to relate. The comments on here are great! I used to follow the Lakes subforum, but it's been highjacked by the Chicago weenies, so I think I'll spend a lot more time here. At least we can share LES futility sagas.

Congrats to the Toronto folks. Most snow storm forecasts for T.O. fail, so nice to see this deliver for you guys. Must be chaos there now. I can only imagine the 400 series highways right now.

A disappointment here in Ontario as well considering the hype and modelling. Flake size was small, snow started late and ended early. Fortunately we missed the sleet this far NW. Best action of this event has been this morning after the SLP was gone. L. Huron delivering with some N and NW winds. Good flake size and some blowing. Maybe some of you can cash in on these winds from L. Ontario later on.

The storm here was a disappointment, similar to just about everyone east of the Detroit river. Late getting started, shut off early, and poor flake size. Missed out on the sleet tho'... Seems that LE has started up recently, and is the best snow of the whole event. Maybe you guys south of the lake can get some too. Good luck.

Thanks for the comment. The snow is still coming down but intermittent at times. I'll have to go outside and shovel/snow blow again soon, but I'll take a measuring stick with me. I would guess every winter since 2010 has been below what was our normal seasonal total of 80". The local weather office has stopped giving official yearly snow totals so I can't verify and I don't keep track myself - just my hunch. I would think you would benefit off a NW wind with some moisture in it, no??

LES has been mostly terrible this season (and a few years running) up until last night. With the NW winds we have picked up at least a foot since last night and it's been intermittently snowing most of the day so not sure what the final total will be. The HHRR model run from 00z Friday morning picked up on the big potential. Finally looks like mid-winter.

I'm also from London. We probably got about a foot. It will likely compact to a couple of inches it's so fluffy, but at least it looks like winter. The LES events don't happen like they used to here, so I can relate to the pain expressed on this regional forum. I usually lurk on the Lakes forum and don't post much but come over here fairly regularly to see if you guys are making out better than us. I keep wasting time following synoptic snow threats that fizzle to nothing or give a whopping inch or two, but I can't seem to help myself. Weather addiction at play.......

Getting a more northerly flow would certainly be nice. The last event missed us to the north just like most of the Ohio posters.

Agreed. Approx. 280-310 would work very nicely. I've seen enough of the SWerlys over the last couple of years.....

Round 2 in the cards this weekend? If it's 320-330 up here I may miss this one to the west. I do live on the west side of the city, so I may luck out....

Thanks. How much do you have there? You and I usually feast or more often famine as I think you are south of the lake no? We both need some northerly wind component or for the most part we're getting nothing of note.