prinsburg_wx Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 snowing here now...winds are getting stronger, gusting over 40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 KGFK 120209Z 34029G48KT 1/8SM -SN BLSN BR VV001 M07/M07 A2952 RMK AO2 PK WND 34048/0201 PRESRR P0000 $ Gusting to 55, 1/8SM at the Forks. 0Z NAM has the core of strongest winds coming in between 03 and 06Z. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 snowing here now...winds are getting stronger, gusting over 40 You are close--NWS has your on the edge of the advisory--if you get even an inch of snow you may be upgraded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Took a quick video we are sort of shielded from the wind in the parking lot by the building on the left but you can sorta see what it's like out there. http://www.youtube.com/user/heitz1m?feature=mhsn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Most impressive report yet: 0438 PM NON-TSTM WND GST 10 N HAZELTON 46.63N 100.28W03/11/2011 M71 MPH EMMONS ND MESONET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Took a quick video we are sort of shielded from the wind in the parking lot by the building on the left but you can sorta see what it's like out there. http://www.youtube.c...1m?feature=mhsn Nice vid--can definitely hear the wind whipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Lights even flickered here a couple of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prinsburg_wx Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 You are close--NWS has your on the edge of the advisory--if you get even an inch of snow you may be upgraded. It's getting bad here too with low visibilities...i see ABR upgraded alot of their cwa to a blizzard warning so it won't take much snow with the strong winds to get blizzard conditions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Those people are going to have a hell of a time getting home from the sioux game. Still basically 0 visibility freeways are closed and lights are still flickering in and out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek30 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Just incredible conditions up here. In the span of a few hours, a foot high drift has built up on my driveway. Incredible! Visibility is an absolute joke. Zero out of town. This is why I LOVE Manitoba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Those people are going to have a hell of a time getting home from the sioux game. Still basically 0 visibility freeways are closed and lights are still flickering in and out. Yeah I heard they shutdown 2 and 29. Crazy stuff. Best event up there all winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Just incredible conditions up here. In the span of a few hours, a foot high drift has built up on my driveway. Incredible! Visibility is an absolute joke. Zero out of town. This is why I LOVE Manitoba It is quite a storm--these systems that rapidly intensify are always highly efficient wind machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Just incredible conditions up here. In the span of a few hours, a foot high drift has built up on my driveway. Incredible! Visibility is an absolute joke. Zero out of town. This is why I LOVE Manitoba That sounds awesome, I'm jealous of your arctic fronts and prairie blizzards...how much snowfall do you average per year there? What is your current snow depth? BTW thanks to Baroclinic Instability for the explanations. This seems to be an unusual shortwave in terms of its placement and intensity, not too often you see one of these creating blizzard conditions instead of your typical arctic front passage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 That sounds awesome, I'm jealous of your arctic fronts and prairie blizzards...how much snowfall do you average per year there? What is your current snow depth? BTW thanks to Baroclinic Instability for the explanations. This seems to be an unusual shortwave in terms of its placement and intensity, not too often you see one of these creating blizzard conditions instead of your typical arctic front passage. Yeah no prob nzucker. It definitely is unusual in its config--but the results and widespread ground blizzard type conditions aren't. I agree--the northern plains have a huge advantage when it comes to blizzards with the flat, treeless plains conducive to significant blowing and drifting even with only an inch or two of snow on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Yeah no prob nzucker. It definitely is unusual in its config--but the results and widespread ground blizzard type conditions aren't. I agree--the northern plains have a huge advantage when it comes to blizzards with the flat, treeless plains conducive to significant blowing and drifting even with only an inch or two of snow on the ground. Yeah, the conditions got very intense here during the Boxing Day Blizzard that dumped 20" in NYC, but you never get the same unsheltered feeling as you would during a Plains blizzard since you can always duck into a forested area to find some relief, and the constant trees and hillsides reduces the drifting aspect of the storm significantly, although it was still quite hard to measure the 12/26 snowfall. We had 65mph winds at the height of the Nor'easter with +SN, 2-3"/hr rates, temp at 17.5F. That was probably the most intense storm I've experienced on the East Coast, as well as the 2/14/2007 storm in Middlebury, VT. Both were historic in their own right. I am coming out to the Midwest in early April and looking to chase blizzards. Do you think the pattern might support a late-season event in the Minnesota/ND area? What are your thoughts for getting another snowfall here in the northern suburbs of NYC, any chance for a March snow? Things are looking bleak right now down here but I'm sure you've got plenty of winter left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 when this stupid movie ends that my gf is watching i'll head out on the balcony and shoot another video, it's still going nuts well below 1/4 mile visibility still and lights seem to flicker every 15 minutes in a set of 2, by far the best storm i've ever experienced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIUmetGF Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Just a quick snippet of the conditions out here. Got some more good stuff once I figure out how to edit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Just a quick snippet of the conditions out here. Got some more good stuff once I figure out how to edit it. That is some serious blizzaction. Nice vid. Never thought I would wish I was in the GFK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 It's getting bad here too with low visibilities...i see ABR upgraded alot of their cwa to a blizzard warning so it won't take much snow with the strong winds to get blizzard conditions here. Well looks like it got bad enough--NWS just upgraded you to a blizzard warning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwt Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Does anybody have storm totals for this event, I know for some its still going on but it seems to be steadily weakening now. Looks like a decent event though for late winter for you guys in the northern plains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prinsburg_wx Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Does anybody have storm totals for this event, I know for some its still going on but it seems to be steadily weakening now. Looks like a decent event though for late winter for you guys in the northern plains. I've read 2 - 4" in ND & n MN and wind gusts 60+...here's a few wind gusts reported in my area. LOCATION PEAK GUST TIME OF PEAK GUST ------------------------------------------------------------ MORRIS 56 MPH 11 PM HUTCHINSON 55 MPH 1 AM APPLETON 54 MPH 11 PM GRANITE FALLS 54 MPH 9 PM ALEXANDRIA 53 MPH 10 PM CANBY 53 MPH 10 PM MADISON 53 MPH 9 PM BENSON 52 MPH 11 PM ST JAMES 52 MPH 12 AM GLENCOE 51 MPH 4 AM PAYNESVILLE 51 MPH 12 AM WILLMAR 51 MPH 3 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 I've read 2 - 4" in ND & n MN and wind gusts 60+...here's a few wind gusts reported in my area. LOCATION PEAK GUST TIME OF PEAK GUST ------------------------------------------------------------ MORRIS 56 MPH 11 PM HUTCHINSON 55 MPH 1 AM APPLETON 54 MPH 11 PM GRANITE FALLS 54 MPH 9 PM ALEXANDRIA 53 MPH 10 PM CANBY 53 MPH 10 PM MADISON 53 MPH 9 PM BENSON 52 MPH 11 PM ST JAMES 52 MPH 12 AM GLENCOE 51 MPH 4 AM PAYNESVILLE 51 MPH 12 AM WILLMAR 51 MPH 3 AM How did it turn out for you--much blowing? Was it worth the blizzard warning upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prinsburg_wx Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 How did it turn out for you--much blowing? Was it worth the blizzard warning upgrade? visibilities still bad here out in open country so yeah the blizzard warning was worth it...not much additional snow but still white out conditions here at noon time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 visibilities still bad here out in open country so yeah the blizzard warning was worth it...not much additional snow but still white out conditions here at noon time. Pictures and blizzard vids please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prinsburg_wx Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Pictures and blizzard vids please i don't have vids but a couple pics i took early this morning looking out towards my field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 i don't have vids but a couple pics i took early this morning looking out towards my field. Wow nice! That is some pretty impressive ground blizzaction. You can even see the sun trying to peak through it. That looks like a classic ground blizzard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prinsburg_wx Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Wow nice! That is some pretty impressive ground blizzaction. You can even see the sun trying to peak through it. That looks like a classic ground blizzard. it was awesome early this morning...guessing we had 1/2 inch of new snow overnight and thats whats blowing around as i thought there was a good cap to the snow prior to the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 People just don't listen. Excerpts from the Grand Forks Herald. More than 800 stranded in ND! "BISMARCK — Rescue workers used military trucks and other heavy vehicles to pluck motorists from more than 500 vehicles abandoned along ice-slicked roads and in drifting snow throughout North Dakota and take them to churches, schools, bars and gas stations that became makeshift shelters. About 800 people were rescued starting Friday afternoon, and most remained at shelters Saturday as highways remained closed. North Dakota National Guard spokesman Capt. Dan Murphy said the rescue mission ended Saturday morning but soldiers were still on duty, patrolling highway entrances." "A pregnant woman who went into labor Friday night on Interstate 94 was rescued near Steel and taken to a shelter in the town, about 40 miles east of the nearest hospital in Bismarck, Skogen said "There was no way to get her in to Bismarck," Skogen said. "You name it, we had all kinds of situations playing out." The pregnant woman was being cared for at an ambulance station in Steele and had not yet given birth Saturday morning, said Mona Thompson, director of the Kidder County ambulance service. The Department of Transportation closed Interstate 94 between Valley City and Fargo and Interstate 29 from the Canadian border to the South Dakota border. Highway 83 was closed between Minot and the South Dakota border, and U.S. Highway 2 was closed from Grand Forks to Devils Lake. Todd Hamilton, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Bismarck, said only 2 to 4 inches of snow fell in most parts of the state Friday but the strong winds that came with the storm made conditions bad. The storm had largely moved out of North Dakota by early Saturday morning but below-freezing temperatures remained, he said. Jim Albrecht, the emergency manager in Stutsman County, said about 600 people were still taking shelter in Medina and other small towns there. He said he couldn't remember a worse storm in a state known for nasty winter weather. The storm created a white-out from the get-go, and people became stuck immediately. "It's been a long time since we had a storm like this that hit us so hard and so fast," he said." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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