Trent Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 12z NMM fwiw: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organizing Low Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Visibilities have dropped quickly...once that dry layer is overtaken, it gets going fast for you guys upstream. how much was the NWS forecast for you? keep us posted on totals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Detroit City AirportLat: 42.4 Lon: -83.02 Elev: 625 Last Update on Feb 5, 12:53 pm EST Snow 22 °F(-6 °C) Humidity:82 % Dewpoint:17 °F (-8 °C) Visibility:0.50 mi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmyGreens Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Heres a couple from my place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 how much was the NWS forecast for you? keep us posted on totals. 1-3" As for at my house it is snowing like crazy out there, probably 1/4SM, already sticking to the ground too. Roads are snow covered lightly already too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern_IN_Wx Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 You must have gotten into that heavy front end band. I've just had a steady 1" per hour here. Yep...that good 700-600 mb frontogenetic band set up overhead early this morning. Probably the largest dendrites I have seen since the Dec 15/16 2007 18" thundersnow event. Otherwise, I would not have done all that great with this event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneyman Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Where the heck did this storm come from? Congrats guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizzard23 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 4" just measured here in Columbia City, IN. It looks like atleast another 2-3" to come yet this afternoon. I love these surprise snowstorms because there is no room for disappointment from days of model watching leading up to it! These are the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmyGreens Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Looks like Mansfield might cash in on the pivot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organizing Low Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 1-3" As for at my house it is snowing like crazy out there, probably 1/4SM, already sticking to the ground too. Roads are snow covered lightly already too. very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 4" just measured here in Columbia City, IN. It looks like atleast another 2-3" to come yet this afternoon. I love these surprise snowstorms because there is no room for disappointment from days of model watching leading up to it! These are the best! Yeah, I've been watching this storm for like 36 hrs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organizing Low Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 i guess eastpointe is north of detroit by a bit.....i think your zone should give me a good hint of my area as we are also riding the northern edge hope you guys overperform! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Are your thoughts still 2-4" for us? What does the latest RUC model show? Both RUC/HRRR have been pretty steady keeping us in the 0.25-0.50" zone (but based on the spatial distribution, I'd say we're a tad closer to 0.25" than 0.50"). Should be good for 2-4". But if we get into any banding, who knows. Maybe we can tack on a little more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilly84 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Heres a couple from my place... umm photobucket, those links just screwed everything up. freaking fake virus scan kept popping up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilly84 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Looks like Mansfield might cash in on the pivot. yea Im too far east. still rain here.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 0 SN here. This dry air gradient is insane. just 5 miles East of me is -SN - SN. Looking to the north I can almost see blue skies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Sucky time for SPC mesoscale site to be down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 pretty cool looping the IND radar and watching the deformation zone shift from eastern/northeast IN up to nw OH/DTW. almost looked convective for a time with some 35dbz bands popping in that loop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilly84 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 if it'd start heading east now Id be okay lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 mins ago I wrote my post and not one flake!! I just looked outside...And Im at +SN! Its like the atmosphere just went "POP"! And bingo Im in a ripping snow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajdos Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I just drove to 19 Mile van dyke to drop off my sister at this bowling place, and there is not a flake in the sky.. drove back down a couple of miles and the vis changed like crazy..heavy snow.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilly84 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Radar returns showing snow over me now, but it isnt heavy enough to change it over.. Still rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayuud Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 snowstormcanuck, looks like the snow started down here and its coming down at a good clip,already coating on the roads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeenerWx Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 About 1.7" here... Congrats to those further south!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afterimage Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 UPDATE UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN INDIANA APPEARS TO BE GAINING SOME SPEED AS IT APPROACHES MID/UPPER LEVEL GREAT LAKES CONFLUENCE ZONE. BEGINNING TO SEE SOME WEAKENING OF DEFORMATION BAND ACROSS NORTHEAST ILLINOIS/NORTHWEST INDIANA...AND EXPECTING THESE LESSER SNOWFALL RATES TO OVERSPREAD WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA OVER NEXT FEW HOURS...AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. LARGE LAYER OF WEAKENED STATIC STABILITY FAVORABLY LOCATED WITH STRONGEST VERTICAL MOTION FIELDS HAVE OPTIMIZED THE RESPONSE TO THE MID/UPPER LEVEL FORCING...WITH SEVERAL REPORTS OF 1 TO 2 INCH PER HOUR SNOWFALL RATES. EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON...GRAVITY WAVE ALSO APPEARED TO ENHANCE SNOWFALL ACROSS WEST CENTRAL INDIANA INTO SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF WFO IWX FORECAST AREA. FEW LOCATIONS ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE AREA MAY APPROACH STORM TOTAL AMOUNTS NEAR 6 INCHES...BUT WILL CONTINUE WITH THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON FOR WIDESPREAD 3 TO 5 INCH SNOW TOTALS. Nice update from IWX, found it interesting to see them discuss/reference the "gravity wave" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilly84 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Big huge snow flakes now here, as the sun is coming out. EDIT: LOL lasted all of 2 minutes literally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 UPDATE UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN INDIANA APPEARS TO BE GAINING SOME SPEED AS IT APPROACHES MID/UPPER LEVEL GREAT LAKES CONFLUENCE ZONE. BEGINNING TO SEE SOME WEAKENING OF DEFORMATION BAND ACROSS NORTHEAST ILLINOIS/NORTHWEST INDIANA...AND EXPECTING THESE LESSER SNOWFALL RATES TO OVERSPREAD WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA OVER NEXT FEW HOURS...AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. LARGE LAYER OF WEAKENED STATIC STABILITY FAVORABLY LOCATED WITH STRONGEST VERTICAL MOTION FIELDS HAVE OPTIMIZED THE RESPONSE TO THE MID/UPPER LEVEL FORCING...WITH SEVERAL REPORTS OF 1 TO 2 INCH PER HOUR SNOWFALL RATES. EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON...GRAVITY WAVE ALSO APPEARED TO ENHANCE SNOWFALL ACROSS WEST CENTRAL INDIANA INTO SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF WFO IWX FORECAST AREA. FEW LOCATIONS ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE AREA MAY APPROACH STORM TOTAL AMOUNTS NEAR 6 INCHES...BUT WILL CONTINUE WITH THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON FOR WIDESPREAD 3 TO 5 INCH SNOW TOTALS. Nice update from IWX, found it interesting to see them discuss/reference the "gravity wave" thought I saw that earlier this morning but was half asleep looking at the IND radar. was moving pretty pretty quickly eastward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 This storm is bitchin. Heavy snow here the last hour... probably rates of 1"/hr the last 30 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Wow...just wow. Insane snowfall rates. We probably have already gotten 1.5+, nearly 2 inches which has fallen in not an hour and a half. DTW down to 0.1 mile in heavy snow. Just awesome. http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDTW/2011/2/5/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettman320 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Heavy snow here in warren. This is great! These surprise events are by far my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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