BeastFromTheEast Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 What the hell??? My namesake. And to the pieces of roof falling off Wrigley. Lol I was confused there for a second.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 IKK seems to have been zapped. Reporting overcast at the last ob. Lol I was confused there for a second.... Haha, I was like wait a second...I didn't post that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heightspf1 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Thunder and lightening in East Peoria, IL But not much snow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I think we really have to thank the arctic high in Montana for these gradient winds. Current surface low is 998 over Evansville and will not bomb like the January 1978 Superbomb over Cleveland did. Then again maybe "thank" is not the right word for those who lose power due to the weight of the ice or snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csnavywx Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 METAR KPNT 01:05Z 02/02/11 KPNT 020105Z AUTO 06038G50KT 1/4SM +SN OVC002 M06/M07 A2959 RMK AO2 Starting to see some damaging-quality wind gusts on station reports. Haha Baro, you're absolutely right. We couldn't put this monster together if we wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 What the hell??? My namesake. And to the pieces of roof falling off Wrigley. I'm sure The Cell will hold up fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 a report just a few miles from my house.... 0813 PM SNOW 2 SW NORTH WEBSTER 41.31N 85.72W 02/01/2011 M8.2 INCH KOSCIUSKO IN NWS EMPLOYEE 8.2 INCHES IS STORM SNOW TOTAL WITH 3.5 INCHES BETWEEN 530P AND 800P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoFabulous Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 A couple pictures from tonight: Close up of the sleet pack. You can see all the little divets caused by larger chunks of sleet impacting the 2" sleet base. The front porch of my house. There is a corner in the roof above the right-side of the photograph, and all of the sleet on that side of the house is piling up here. The pile is about 18" high, all sleet. This is the pile below the corner on the back porch. It's a little hard to tell, but this pile is over 2' high. Took this one last night. This is the edge of the yard along the driveway. Amazing to see the sheer cliffs created by the combination of snowpack, heavy sleet and freezing rain. Last one. The kids across the street made up some sleetmen today. Things seem to be slowing down now. Looks like we'll avoid the dreaded inch of ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lannister80 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Just had some serious thundersnow in Peoria IL, 7:30 local time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I'm sure The Cell will hold up fine. Nah, Miller Park. Home away from home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierwx Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 ISU in Terre Haute closed their campus today but decided to play a basketball game this evening. My daughter is at the game and says the lights are flickering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Awesome video Alek. Thanks for braving the elements man. dude it was my pleasure, and the vids really don't do the conditions justice. I'll probably head out again, but the vids will be nothing but blurry noise at this point. It's pretty much off the deep end right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I'm getting CG strikes now,,,very close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 not surprised to hear about the roof at wrigley either, i said a few pages back i thought we'd have some local roof damage (i'm 1 mile north or so). Winds are just out of this world. Makes this summers super derecho look *****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatloafkitten Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Just experienced some surprisingly loud, long-lasting thundersnow here in Peoria. Very bright flash of lightning preceded it by about 5-7 seconds, and the thunder itself rumbled for about 20 seconds. Neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeenerWx Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Just experienced some surprisingly loud, long-lasting thundersnow here in Peoria. Very bright flash of lightning preceded it by about 5-7 seconds, and the thunder itself rumbled for about 20 seconds. Neat! Wherever thundersnow occurs, that's where our lollipops will be Pouring snow right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxnut Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I think we really have to thank the arctic high in Montana for these gradient winds. Current surface low is 998 over Evansville and will not bomb like the January 1978 Superbomb over Cleveland did. Then again maybe "thank" is not the right word for those who lose power due to the weight of the ice or snow. Could you imagine the gradient if this thing did bomb to a 956 low.. with a 1056 high in Montana! 100 mb gradient across the midwest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 IND has lowered ice amounts to .5-.75. Still bad but not quite as bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbondaleWX Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 PWSullivan Large panel of Wrigley Field roof blown off by the Blizzard. No injuries reported. Cubs monitoring situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuanis Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 dude it was my pleasure, and the vids really don't do the conditions justice. I'll probably head out again, but the vids will be nothing but blurry noise at this point. It's pretty much off the deep end right now. It's a little breezy out there... feel sorry for this guy. Looking out my front window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 visibility here is downright terrible...snowing very hard once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 The CAP is about to break if you will...CG strikes in PIA?? WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubfan61201 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 visibility here is downright terrible...snowing very hard once again. Don't worry...KWQC still sticking with 9 inch forecast...LOL we have that already in RI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Just went out and did a quick array of measurements throughout the yard. Came up with an average depth of 11" out of areas that seemed to have less drifting. There are some drifts of 2-3', but also a few areas where you can the frozen crust beneath. Given that we started with just under 4" on the ground that puts us up around 7". Will do another measurement after midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimChgo9 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Three times power dropped, and then came back up.... Highest recorded gust of 51mph.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestChaser Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Driving earlier: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 That area between BMI-IKK must be getting clobbered right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 dude it was my pleasure, and the vids really don't do the conditions justice. I'll probably head out again, but the vids will be nothing but blurry noise at this point. It's pretty much off the deep end right now. No doubt. Wicked enough here with gusts easily over 45MPH and sideways sleet. Pretty freaking awesome storm even if we don't get snow here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Three times power dropped, and then came back up.... I'm up to 5 times here now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 It is like atmospheric magic. A meteorologist could not have co-located everything at once at the same time over one area. Tanking mid level heights with the incoming PV max, the most divergent portion of that upper jet coupling, strong 600-800 frontal forcing, strong low level moist theta-e advection into the frontal circulation, and extreme convergence into the low level cyclone. I am thinking this is going to be ripping heavy TSSN over N IL like nothing before. most exciting thing I've read since following this storm starting about 10 days or so ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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