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January 31-February 2 Historic Winter Storm part 7


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Decided on Bloomington, IL :) Hoping for the best! Should arrive there around 6 PM or so - hopefully the freezing precip holds off a bit. Radar shows freezing rain and drizzle moving in from the southwest.

honestly I dont think it really matters at this point bloomington or peoria ,or Quincy, or Joliet...etc

Bloomington would give you options too you could go west on I74 ot up I55 if you have to adjust

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I gotta toss the NAM for now especially because of what baro has been saying. Whoever is near the edge of the heavy snow band or in the sleet zone on there should still be getting prepared for significant ice imo.

I think anyone who is in the counties around Indianapolis have equal chances of getting all ice.. Like I said just too damn close to say who is going to get what..

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Just wanted to tell all of you pros out there a huge thank you. I really took heed of all this and got my act together, bought a generator, booked a hotel near work and got the essentials together. You guys are great and all of your efforts have not gone unnoticed. This is a storm for the ages and glad to be a part of potential history. Keep up the good work, sleep a little, something tells me you guys might be up for 36 plus hours, but your efforts here allowed us regular folks to get the word out to others so in many ways you guys have been influential in helping others possibly save lives. Again thanks and keep the good times rolling.

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Not to bother but you feel like throwing out a prediction for LAF?

SNow showers late this afternoon-tonight--3-5" by the overnight period.

Fzdz by tomorrow morning with a few flakes mixed in--looks dry enough aloft though to stay drizzly. Late Tuesday into the night developing heavy snow--I am betting on a stronger solution and deeper height falls/cooling so mostly if not all snow. Heavy at times--blizzard type conditions Tuesday night/Wednesday morning with 50+ to mix down through 09z then slow weakening winds but still blustery and blowing snow--up to 35 G.

10-14" storm total. Bigger issue will be 6-8 hours of blizzard conditions and blowing snow with 50-55 mph mixing in.

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Decided on Bloomington, IL :) Hoping for the best! Should arrive there around 6 PM or so - hopefully the freezing precip holds off a bit. Radar shows freezing rain and drizzle moving in from the southwest.

What are you chasing? I'd be chasing the icestorm if I was going to chase anything. It will probably be a crazy sight where it stays mostly ice.

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Back up to 1.5 or so. Can't wait to see some burried cars Wednesday.

Add 50mph winds to this and lookout. Lakeshore Drive could be shut down for quite awhile as well as other expressways as well. Add possible LSD flooding which will freeze on top of Snow and you have a major problem there. This is truely amazing stuff!!

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Boy, the trend is NOT the friend of Iowans. We needed the uber-agressive models(with low track to St Louis), but they are headed east. Any further east shift will cause my total to fall off a cliff. Even worse, the nice initial WAA event today/tonight is tanking on the models. It had looked good for a widespread 3-5 inches across Iowa, but now 1 inch, maybe 2 is all we will get. So this winter has two huge snowstorms, one goes north of Iowa, one goes south.

Maybe we can get a last minute nowcast left hook from this thing.sad.gif

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Decided on Bloomington, IL :) Hoping for the best! Should arrive there around 6 PM or so - hopefully the freezing precip holds off a bit. Radar shows freezing rain and drizzle moving in from the southwest.

have fun with that trip... something tells me you'll have some interesting pictures from along the I-70 corridor from this one...

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Add 50mph winds to this and lookout. Lakeshore Drive could be shut down for quite awhile as well as other expressways as well. Add possible LSD flooding which will freeze on top of Snow and you have a major problem there. This is truely amazing stuff!!

I think the ice cover keeps shoreline flooding in check, that is unless it's real thin and easily broken up.

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SNow showers late this afternoon-tonight--3-5" by the overnight period.

Fzdz by tomorrow morning with a few flakes mixed in--looks dry enough aloft though to stay drizzly. Late Tuesday into the night developing heavy snow--I am betting on a stronger solution and deeper height falls/cooling so mostly if not all snow. Heavy at times--blizzard type conditions Tuesday night/Wednesday morning with 50+ to mix down through 09z then slow weakening winds but still blustery and blowing snow--up to 35 G.

10-18" storm total. Bigger issue will be 6-8 hours of blizzard conditions and blowing snow with 50-55 mph mixing in.

ChicagoWX will be so happy... Hopefully.. :lol:

Close to being a V-Day 2007 all over again..

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SNow showers late this afternoon-tonight--3-5" by the overnight period.

Fzdz by tomorrow morning with a few flakes mixed in--looks dry enough aloft though to stay drizzly. Late Tuesday into the night developing heavy snow--I am betting on a stronger solution and deeper height falls/cooling so mostly if not all snow. Heavy at times--blizzard type conditions Tuesday night/Wednesday morning with 50+ to mix down through 09z then slow weakening winds but still blustery and blowing snow--up to 35 G.

10-18" storm total. Bigger issue will be 6-8 hours of blizzard conditions and blowing snow with 50-55 mph mixing in.

Pure weather porn. thumbsupsmileyanim.gif

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SNow showers late this afternoon-tonight--3-5" by the overnight period.

Fzdz by tomorrow morning with a few flakes mixed in--looks dry enough aloft though to stay drizzly. Late Tuesday into the night developing heavy snow--I am betting on a stronger solution and deeper height falls/cooling so mostly if not all snow. Heavy at times--blizzard type conditions Tuesday night/Wednesday morning with 50+ to mix down through 09z then slow weakening winds but still blustery and blowing snow--up to 35 G.

10-18" storm total. Bigger issue will be 6-8 hours of blizzard conditions and blowing snow with 50-55 mph mixing in.

:wub:

Thanks Baro.

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Boy, the trend is NOT the friend of Iowans. We needed the uber-agressive models(with low track to St Louis), but they are headed east. Any further east shift will cause my total to fall off a cliff. Even worse, the nice initial WAA event today/tonight is tanking on the models. It had looked good for a widespread 3-5 inches across Iowa, but now 1 inch, maybe 2 is all we will get. So this winter has two huge snowstorms, one goes north of Iowa, one goes south.

Maybe we can get a last minute nowcast left hook from this thing.sad.gif

Yeah, anyone previously on the northwest edge of the heavy snows and want a blizzard are not going to be happy with the NAM. However, the other models' tracks have been pretty consistent with a track into the Missouri Bootheel and into Central Indiana and Ohio.

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SNow showers late this afternoon-tonight--3-5" by the overnight period.

Fzdz by tomorrow morning with a few flakes mixed in--looks dry enough aloft though to stay drizzly. Late Tuesday into the night developing heavy snow--I am betting on a stronger solution and deeper height falls/cooling so mostly if not all snow. Heavy at times--blizzard type conditions Tuesday night/Wednesday morning with 50+ to mix down through 09z then slow weakening winds but still blustery and blowing snow--up to 35 G.

10-14" storm total. Bigger issue will be 6-8 hours of blizzard conditions and blowing snow with 50-55 mph mixing in.

Thanks much. I'd love to see that verify but I'm worried about how much sleet and maybe zr might mix in.

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