I saw one guy getting stuck in the snow covered street desperately trying to get out (he succeeded after 10 minutes of struggling) and I just heard another vehicle getting stuck in snow. Must be around 4 inches of snow on the street.
Wouldn't be surprised if we stayed all snow here like the HRRR has depicted based on trends on radar trends, although wouldn't rule out some sleet here.
Not quite sure to toss it just yet since we all know what happened on 2/11/19. All the models severely underdid the WAA and as a result southeast Iowa and much of northern Illinois got a major ice storm instead of several inches of snow. Just my take on it.
In other news, 12z UKMET has wave two southeast of 0z and slower.
True although it's not fun sleeping in a cold house with room temps in the 50s. But I'm sure that beats sleeping with room temps in the 80s as happened during the 9 day power outage caused by the derecho.
Welp, something to look forward to is 6 hours of ZR with gusty winds on Friday. Definitely going to cause power troubles but hopefully not as bad as the derecho. Operational GFS has 6 hours of ZR with temps at 30-31F with wind gusts up to 45 mph. Could definitely get about a quarter inch of ice from wave 2.
Anyone with access to the 18z Euro, what does it show? That is if the run is in progress. ICON is the furthest west and spells monster ice storm for multiple states.
18z NAM at hour 84 looks almost exactly like hour 90 of the euro. Judging by the low placement at hour 84, the NAM might take the low through central Iowa in future runs.
0245 PM SNOW 3 E CEDAR RAPIDS 41.97N 91.61W
10/19/2020 M5.0 INCH LINN IA BROADCAST MEDIA
I got about 4.5 inches on the back porch. All of this will melt tomorrow.
All the personal weather stations in Cedar Rapids show temps below 32F which means that the snow isn't as wet as if the temp were, say, 33F or 34F. I wouldn't be surprised if Cedar Rapids saw 5+ inches of snow from this band.
This video was uploaded on August 17, taken possibly at Lindale in Cedar Rapids. Highlight of this video is the husband is very calm while the wife is freaking out.