L.B. LaForce Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I'll try to get some pics up in a bit, but there is some intense snowfall within these bands. 1/4 mile to zero visibility within them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Two hour lake effect total 2" in Waterloo. This is some of the best LES activity KW has had in years. Nice job Mike. Hope you're enjoying it. La nada over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Nice job Mike. Hope you're enjoying it. La nada over here. Well this is a crap shot. I aint getting anything. Sun actually came out for a few hours, pathetic. Hopefully we get some action later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London snowsquall Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Nothing much happening here. The snowbands are very transitory and are certainly not locking on the city, at least so far. I think I've seen breaks in the clouds as often as I've seen snow. Probably an inch or two max. since this morning. No need to shovel, at least at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Nice job Mike. Hope you're enjoying it. La nada over here. It was great. I can't even remember the last time a long, wide, persistent lake effect snow band set up over Waterloo Region. EC downgraded the snow squall warning to a snow squall watch but we are still having on and off LES activity. Nothing near what it was like earlier, but still accumulating about 1-1.5cm per hour. As of 315pm I measured 4.5" snow depth. Will go back out in a bit and see where it is now. Check out London, SSC. Looks like a band is setting up. The EC forecast at 11am had a maximum of 24" for the city. Edit, just measured an average snow depth of 5" with drifts near 2 feet. TWN has video from Cambridge this morning of almost total whiteout conditions. http://www.theweathe...page_topstories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Drove around the city today... west and south side of BG has about 2-3" while the north/east has less than an inch. Pretty sick band coming off Lake Michigan too, stretches all the way to Paulding, OH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zachary Lassiter Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 New md for southwest Michigan and northern Indiana http://mesodiscussion.com/view/20120006/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 London Airport reporting +SN +BLSN with 1/4 vis in the last half hour. 1-2 feet expected there. The LES band has set up and become stationary right over the city of 450,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Snowing at my place in north Toronto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London snowsquall Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 London Airport reporting +SN +BLSN with 1/4 vis in the last half hour. 1-2 feet expected there. The LES band has set up and become stationary right over the city of 450,000. The heaviest bands looked they set up on the east side of the city, altho' here in the SW we picked up another couple of inches in the last 2 hours. Now we're in a lull again with just flurries with more bands back over the lake. They look multi-banded with no real heavy bands except for the one that clocked the east side for a couple hours. They probably picked up at least 4 inches as it looked to be at least 35 dbz. A wait and see approach as to where the next ones set up - if the winds come more out of the NNW the bands should swing back south and west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Snowing at my place in north Toronto. You probably got a solid coating no? Just a brief heavy flurry as it moved through here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.B. LaForce Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Oh yeah, here is some video from today. Didn't have a lot of my gear with me, so this video was shot from a point and shoot digital camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Good Stuff L.B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Great pics and video! Had 0.3" last evening and another 0.1" overnight, wind today sublimated some of the snow, and then tonight a few heavy bands skirted through the area but we only managed some skiffs of fluff out of it, just a trace. Lots of flakes dancing in the air, but just light accums range every mile or so from just a trace to probably an inch, a pretty typical les event for SE MI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 1.2" of snow here today, some from the feeder bands from Lake Michigan that extended into the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 London getting destroyed...locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Great pics and video! Had 0.3" last evening and another 0.1" overnight, wind today sublimated some of the snow, and then tonight a few heavy bands skirted through the area but we only managed some skiffs of fluff out of it, just a trace. Lots of flakes dancing in the air, but just light accums range every mile or so from just a trace to probably an inch, a pretty typical les event for SE MI. Check the radar. For the last 2 hrs Owosso to Brighton has been getting hammered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Check the radar. For the last 2 hrs Owosso to Brighton has been getting hammered. I have been checking the radar lol, thats why I said a few heavy bands skirted the area but just left an additional trace here. I was watching the snake-like thin bands run down, hoping it would hit me, and I did have a few more blowing snow showers, but not enough to chalk an addition tenth of an inch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 You probably got a solid coating no? Just a brief heavy flurry as it moved through here. Yeah, we got a coating. London getting destroyed...locally. You beat me to it. Wow, just wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kab2791 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Nice L.B.! That was actually a road? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.B. LaForce Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Nice L.B.! That was actually a road? lol Somehow, haha...video doesn't really do it justice, snow seems difficult to capture "accurately" on a camera, or lower def camcorder especially when you are moving. Here is a picture stopped and standing outside off my DSLR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 943 PM EST MON JAN 02 2012 .TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON .DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE. ..REMARKS.. 0830 PM HEAVY SNOW 2 NE SOUTH BEND 41.70N 86.23W 01/02/2012 M12.5 INCH ST. JOSEPH IN COCORAHS STORM SNOW TOTAL SO FAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Sandwiched in between the bands, ugh. Although so much for losing the diurnal component. That band from Howell to Ann Arbor is the strongest most persistent band of this entire event in SE MI. Will be interesting to see what the Ann Arbor spotters report tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 SBN, as of 7PM tonight, has now doubled their season total to date (6.5" today which puts them now at 13.0" for the season). Have to start somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Sandwiched in between the bands, ugh. Although so much for losing the diurnal component. That band from Howell to Ann Arbor is the strongest most persistent band of this entire event in SE MI. Will be interesting to see what the Ann Arbor spotters report tomorrow. Interesting to see how healthy those two bands have been Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Interesting to see how healthy those two bands have been Yes. And the winds are still gusting. In fact, the wind today sublimated our 0.4" of snow to just skiffs in the grass with a little more on the edges. One thing we never really should complain about in metro-Detroit (esp east side) is LES. If you are right under a band you can score, otherwise a dusting is your safest bet in most LES setups (Jan-Feb 2007 notwithstanding, of course that was a synoptic nightmare). All I can say is Im really pining for some action by midmonth in line with some of the ramblings Ive heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Yes. And the winds are still gusting. In fact, the wind today sublimated our 0.4" of snow to just skiffs in the grass with a little more on the edges. One thing we never really should complain about in metro-Detroit (esp east side) is LES. If you are right under a band you can score, otherwise a dusting is your safest bet in most LES setups (Jan-Feb 2007 notwithstanding, of course that was a synoptic nightmare). All I can say is Im really pining for some action by midmonth in line with some of the ramblings Ive heard. two occasions where Ive scored on LES. In Feb 07 6.5" and once in Dec 08 3.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 London reported 10.2" at 10pm and probably with 12" by the time that LES band sunk south. It's just not fair! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 London reported 10.2" at 10pm and probably with 12" by the time that LES band sunk south. It's just not fair! Its amazing watching that band west of London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London snowsquall Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 7 inches overnight, so it looks like about 10" total locally here in the SW part of the city. Interesting that the airport in the NE part of the city already had that much by 10 pm. I've already been out and shovelled the driveway. The radar was showing the heaviest snow on the east side of the city again this morning, so I wonder what things look like over there. I'll find out shortly as work is very near the airport. Should be a very slow morning commute. Darn wife took the camera when she and the kids left to visit her parents on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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