hawkeye_wx

I was looking forward to watching heavy snow during the Eagles game, but so far it is rather disappointing. The precip is too scattered.

It's amazing how stuck the pattern is this winter. It doesn't seem to matter which phase the MJO is in. We just cannot get a trough in the west.

Man, this winter is really brutal for snow lovers. I can't remember anything like this. An entire winter with little to no hope of anything is astonishing. Day after day, the ensembles out to 15 days are bone dry.

This is not a snowfall graphic we see very often.

We way over-performed today, warmed to 53º.

Houston and New Orleans may get accumulating snow early next week.

0.9" of snow here this morning.

Suppression, suppression, suppression... ad infinitum. The 12z deterministic Euro even has a strong deep south snow and ice storm. Ugh.

Parts of Iowa have still had no measurable snow this winter, and there is little to nothing in sight. Meanwhile, Birmingham and Atlanta are getting 2-3" this morning.

Models have also really backed off of the extreme cold they were advertising a week ago. Now it just looks like some typical January cold. The latest model runs don't even have any sub-zero lows here.

The deterministic/op Euro has actually shown a clear south and drier trend from 12z to 18z to 00z today.

00z GFS.... south on the western end, north on the eastern end. The totals are wildly overdone, but I'm just following the track of the snow path.

Here's the final Iowa snow map.

18z Euro is back south a bit.

I got 1.9" of snow today. I'm pretty happy with that. It's our first 1" snow event of the season.