cyclone77

Well, one thing's for certain, everyone is still in the game at this point.

All of that variability makes me think this one will have surprises right up until the final 24hrs.

1.23" rain total today.

First thunder here overnight as well. When it woke me up for a sec I thought it was a plow. How stupid of a thought eh? Up to 0.98" and climbing fast.

That's probably the one to go with.

Definitely some embedded supercell structures with that band of convection Sunday night/Monday morning from MO into IL. If we had some surface instability I'd be expecting some tor reports with that to be sure.

That brings ORD up to nearly 18" for the season, but still down over a foot FTS.

Gotta love those frontogenesis bands.

Just virga out this way. ORD down to 0.5 mile now in moderate snow.

Feb will finish with 14.5" for the seasonal snowfall total here, MLI at 14.1" which is now 15.2" below average. This time last year MLI was at 15.4", 13.9" below average.

So much for our 958mb storm eh?

Dec 87 blizzard had a 979mb low near Kankakee and up towards your area IIRC.

Yeah so often sleet co ck blocks the glazing potential. It's kind of hard to get a nearly pure freezing rain event, as it seems to be more fleeting/transitory in nature in these parts. The best ice storm I've witnessed was back in December '94 while living in the QC. We were forecast to get a warning criteria snow event, with freezing rain changing to snow. To my dismay at the time the freezing rain just kept holding and didn't change to snow until the final portion of the event. Didn't have online models to peruse in those days, so had to rely on TWC and weather radio.

Definitely an interesting pattern. Seems like it's chucking out sub 980mb systems one after the other. Hopefully something noteworthy comes of it, it'd be kind of a shame to waste it lol.

lol 958mb at hour 216. And still primarily a rainer

Yeah could explain while the icing here was up higher where the wind was probably a bit more frisky. If dews would have been up closer to the temp we probably wouldn't have had any glazing at all given the marginal temps. Very interesting event to be sure.

Just had a brief downpour pass through. Up to 1.07" for the day.

Hopefully RC chimes in later with some met input on this.

Don't think I've ever seen it like that before. I've seen trees and other elevated surfaces glaze up while the ground remained liquid, but never this sort of elevated glaze like today. I'd imagine if I took a short trip north it changes pretty quickly to more of a "traditional" glaze lol.

Chunks of ice are hitting the east side of the house as the wind is now starting to knock off some of the ice from high up in the front tree. Glad temps weren't a degree or two colder or we'd have been hit pretty good. Hoosier's point about the dews being a bit lower than freezing is interesting, never thought about that. Up to 0.90"

0.87" rain so far, which is more than I figured we'd get. Also some glazing on the trees about 30ft+ up, but none below that.

33 with light right here. Looks like around a half inch or so to fall in this area.

As we near midnight we have widespread 70s with decent humidity as far north as Oklahoma, and -20s and -30s just north of the US/Canadian border. You can definitely see why we have such a powerful synoptic setup in the making.

If I was in the ice storm zone I'd have the cams set up to do some time lapse action. Catch those trees slowly drooping/breaking. Would be a pretty sweet time lapse to be sure.