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Saturday Night Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 28. East wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible. Sunday Snow. High near 35. East wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

My first post in this storm thread, as the FWA area has been in the models sights for a significant snow for several days and I didn't want to jinx it. Being within 36 hours of onset, I'm feeling safer now. With FWA sitting at 5.0" for the winter (6.3" imby), we are overdue. In fact, the last 6" snow at FWA was on 12/11/2016 (6.3".) So even with climo only giving us a six incher once every other year, we are way overdue. I'm considering staying up all night on Saturday for a nice Jeb walk.

I know here that here at least, they schedule people in the high-risk classes based on the time frame that the site is open. However, the vials usually contain a little more than the number of doses that is supposed to be in them. By combining residual vaccine, they can squeeze out several more doses. So rather than waste it, they grab anyone they can to come in at the end of the day to get vaccinated. In our case, they have complied a list of city, county, school employees, and other "essential" residents to call when they determine how many doses they are going to have left at the end of the day.

As a first responder, I got my first Moderna shot today. I'm very happy.

5.8" here for the season. Only 4 days with an inch or more of snow cover, 3 in December and 1 so far in January. The deepest snow depth: 2" that only lasted for a few hours. It's just amazing the difference between here and points north and west. Many places haven't had much more snow than Northeast IN, but have held their snow cover an almost ridiculous amount of time.

Yet another virga storm ongoing in NE Indiana. If virga counted as snow, we'd be well over two feet for the winter. Top down saturation FTL

I never put 2 and 2 together, but you're probably right. As far as the Bam guys and their ilk, I've coined the phrase Social Mediaologists.

Very soon the issue will be the logistics of getting shots in the arm and not availability of vaccine.

I work in emergency management/Homeland Security. I got hooked on weather as a seven-year-old when my dad took me out the day after the Palm Sunday outbreak and we followed the path of the F-4 that passed through a few miles north of our house. I got into emergency management as a result of my love of weather. I like storm spotting and doing the occasional chase.

Whoa! Just tried to get caught up here and thought I'd accidentally clicked on one of the EC subforums. My only observations for the FWA area is to prepare for a kitchen sink storm. Now back to your regular scheduled model watching.

I just received an e-mail from IWX stating that NWSChat will be down for planned maintenance on Monday from 10 AM - 1 PM EST. They couldn't have timed it more perfectly.

As we discussed last night, I don't think the IWX forecaster was off base when he discussed marginal temps, at least for FWA. I am seriously rooting for a Euro score for all of the posters in Iowa, No IL/ORD (including hoosier) and Detroit. I will enjoy my cold rain/ice/flakes. All of us Indiana posters south of US 30 will have to depend on the trailing wave to deliver.

Okay, I understand what you're saying. However, ORD is in a better position than FWA. It still looks marginal to me for mby, at least until the last wave rolls through mid-late next week.

Why do you say that?

The afternoon forecaster at IWX sings an all too familiar tune concerning Sunday-Tuesday: THE KEY FOR WHETHER THIS BECOMES A MORE SIGNIFICANT STORM LOCALLY WILL BE IF BLOCKING RELAXES JUST ENOUGH FOR LATER DAMPENING OF THE MAIN SOUTHERN STREAM WAVE. A TYPICAL THREAD THE NEEDLE SET UP THAT WE'VE SEEN THE LAST SEVERAL WINTERS WITH ONLY MARGINALLY COLD AIR TO WORK WITH. SO, NOT A LOT OF CONFIDENCE AT THIS RANGE WITH BROADBRUSH MID CHANCE POPS (RAIN & SNOW) IN THE GRIDS FOR NOW.

I'm already counting on it happening. Our largest snowfall of the season will be on March 23th (channeling some Brian D.).

Six straight hours of snow and still snowing. Total accumulation? zero A microcosm of the winter of 2020-21 here.

Same

How right you are. With a efficacy rate of 95%, which is astounding, there is still that 5% that is susceptible.

I found out that the software will only let you multi quote 50 posts.

lol I want to preface this by saying that I'm not picking on anyone here. In fact, I think Ricky's on the right track and at least there are colder temps on the horizon and the look is for more active weather. However, having been on the board for several years, I find it interesting to witness both the optimism and pessimism by board members, especially in the mid to long range. Anecdotally, ensembles do seem to do a good job of predicting pattern changes, however, many times the timing is suspect. This leads to the cold keeps getting pushed back posts. That being said, even though we still don't have a major winter storm on the horizon, at least temps look to be closer to seasonable averages than the first part of the month and I impatiently for the next big dog.

I haven't seen him for a couple of years

After a hard day of procuring PPE and distributing it to law enforcement, first responders, and county employees, planning vaccination points of distribution in coordination with the local health department, and speaking with local hospital officials about the number and severity of cases being treated, it's refreshing to come home and see this avatar, as it's always good for a smile.

The normal high for IND on March 1st is 45 and on the 31st 58. You might see a couple of 70° days in March, but not likely.

We had a half a day of sun here yesterday, but back to cloudy today.