AppsRunner Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 This storm failed though for our area big time. I was at 2-4" for us and all we wound up getting was a dusting Ended up with maybe an inch here, not really sure since its impossilble to measure, but still snowing lightly here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kab2791 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Snowing at good clip currently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 My snowfall measurements averaged out at 7.0". Kenosha, WI received the most snow west of Lake Michigan - 8.1". Racine, WI received 7-7.5". Lake enhancement in the evening really helped boost totals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 My snowfall measurements averaged out at 7.0". Kenosha, WI received the most snow west of Lake Michigan - 8.1" Lincolnwood...a couple miles to my northwest saw 8.2" and Gurnee, Waukegan and Beach Park saw 5, 5.5 and 4.8" respectively http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=lot&storyid=77632&source=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Lincolnwood...a couple miles to my northwest saw 8.2" and Gurnee, Waukegan and Beach Park saw 5, 5.5 and 4.8" respectively http://www.crh.noaa....=77632&source=0 It's legit. FWIW I learned how to measure, snow, rain etc. from a professor/meteorologist! Waukegan and Beach Park are underdone, Gurnee is further from the lake - so I can see that being legit. I am 2+ miles north of KUGN. The lake enhancement was hit and miss/localized. I could be 0.2-0.3" off, but I'm close, lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherpsycho Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Currenlty snowing here on the other side of the lake from many of you. We recieved between 2 and 3 inches of heavy, wet snow since 4:30. Waiting for the colder temps to move on in and change it to white powder! Spent 3 hours this morning on the slops on a good 6" of fresh snow here in SW MI. Lunch break right now. Heading back out soon. Good 5-8"+ in the area & still snowing right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 4.9" here...we'll see if the activity up north can bump it up to 5" picked up an additional 0.1" to finish off at 5.0" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 The fat lady hasn't finished singing yet! Still some snow coming down from WI. I need 0.4" 0555 AM SNOW OHARE AIRPORT 41.98N 87.90W 01/13/2012 M4.9 INCH COOK IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS STORM TOTAL 4.9 INCHES...0.2 INCHES SINCE MIDNIGHT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I measured 5.75" at 10 last night, I think I ended up with 6.5" based on nearby reports. Can't complain about finally seeing a significant accumulating snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
an uncanny otter Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 This storm overperformed big time here. 4.4" here so far and it's ripping heavily out there. I was honestly expecting no more than 1-2" at best. It looks absolutely gorgeous out there. Today marks the first day I have had to shovel the driveway. A snowplow drove by twice already and the roads are getting snow-covered today. I think it's safe to say that nobody here expected nearly this much snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I measured 5.75" at 10 last night, I think I ended up with 6.5" based on nearby reports. Can't complain about finally seeing a significant accumulating snow. You sat under a pretty nice band for a while there, not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I measured 5.75" at 10 last night, I think I ended up with 6.5" based on nearby reports. Can't complain about finally seeing a significant accumulating snow. Nice! Onto the next storm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I measured one final time this morning. The average of 30+ spots in my yard was 5.8 inches. That is a nice total, but the core sample I melted this morning actually had 0.61" of liquid, which is easily more than any model ever predicted. As odd as it sounds, that makes for only a 9.5 to 1 snow to water ratio. Apparently the mostly tiny flake size combined with wind and 30+ hours of settling/compaction really took a toll. I just noticed a couple cocorahs reports from the Cedar Rapids area totaled about 7 inches when the last two days were added together. I did not have a snow board in the yard that I could clear halfway through the storm, which would have negated some of the settling/compaction issue. Clearly 7 inches would give a more reasonable-sounding 11.5 to 1 ratio. Edit: There are a lot of wildy different liquid totals from the cocorahs observers, from <0.40" up to 0.68". I'm guessing that maybe the lower totals are from observers who collected snow in their gauges as it fell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I see two reports of 4.0" from LAF CoCoRaHS observers, so unless Hoosier, Keener, and/or blue have something different...that's what I'm putting in the sig as the "official" total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I see two reports of 4.0" from LAF CoCoRaHS observers, so unless Hoosier, Keener, and/or blue have something different...that's what I'm putting in the sig as the "official" total. Seems about right to me. Thought we might be a tad over 4 but I haven't been outside today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Seems about right to me. Thought we might be a tad over 4 but I haven't been outside today Slacker. Maybe Hoosier or Keener can come up 0.2" more. Love to make it a nice round number for the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Slacker. Maybe Hoosier or Keener can come up 0.2" more. Love to make it a nice round number for the season. Actually, we've been getting light snow/flurries since before lunchtime. So there is hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardMafia Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 0218 PM SNOW 3 NW WEST LAFAYETTE 40.48N 86.95W 01/13/2012 M3.9 INCH TIPPECANOE IN BROADCAST MEDIA DRIFTS UP TO 10 INCHES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 0218 PM SNOW 3 NW WEST LAFAYETTE 40.48N 86.95W 01/13/2012 M3.9 INCH TIPPECANOE IN BROADCAST MEDIA DRIFTS UP TO 10 INCHES. Tossing that. He reported that at midnight and it snowed all overnight...as per LAF obs. I'm sure there was at least an additional 0.1". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Pretty much a crapshoot for the exact amount of snow we got here with all the drifitng...probably just under an inch. Grass is still poking out in most places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-730471?hpt=hp_bn1 snow time lapse from Byron, IL. Shows how light intensity/long duration this event was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 It's legit. FWIW I learned how to measure, snow, rain etc. from a professor/meteorologist! Waukegan and Beach Park are underdone, Gurnee is further from the lake - so I can see that being legit. I am 2+ miles north of KUGN. The lake enhancement was hit and miss/localized. I could be 0.2-0.3" off, but I'm close, lol! I would definitely not accuse you of intentionally inflating your totals. However, I have to say that those numbers in your sig seem unusually high for your location, even taking into account that the last several years have been good for the MKE-ORD corridor. Have you considered that you might be measuring too close to your house or some other structure causing contamination via blowing snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Really? ...oh you got 2"+. Congrats Mike! Probably ended up with about 0.1" in Waterloo! Didn't make it. 1.6" total. Still towards the highish end of expectations. Looks like some crap is about to spread back into your area. GL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Martin Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Around two inches of snow here in Findlay today. Insane blowing and drifting today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoFabulous Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Driveway measurements put me at about 2" in Muncie. Getting a nice snowshower now which might be enough to bump it up a tad, but not expecting much. Honestly, as much as I love winter weather, after the sleetocalypse last year, I can handle a more relaxed winter this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I would definitely not accuse you of intentionally inflating your totals. However, I have to say that those numbers in your sig seem unusually high for your location, even taking into account that the last several years have been good for the MKE-ORD corridor. Have you considered that you might be measuring too close to your house or some other structure causing contamination via blowing snow? Here's how I measured yesterday. Let me know if I'm messing up somewhere - because I want to take accurate measurements. 90% of the time I'm within 0.5" of the other Beach Park observer. Wind wasn't an issue until after 8pm, so I used my white colored snowboard. The snowboard is about 2' x 2', about 25feet from the north side of the house. No trees within 40 feet, few bushes about 10 feet away. The snowboard is elevated off the ground about a foot. So during the day I measured the real wet snow first, cleared it off - then repeated that until the wind picked up. The wind was northwest last night so the any drifting was very minimal on that side of the house. Once the wind kicked up, I took an average of 5 snow depths - not from the grass, but on wooden railroad ties, the driveway - solid surfaces. Then this morning I took measurements both on the back porch and grass. I summed up the total from all my snowboard and solid surface measurements at about 8am this morning. About 6.5" on the porch and about 7.2" on the grass. I always try to measure on a solid of surface as I can, because the grass is uneven. I also try to measure the snow before it settles. Whether it settled overnight to give a lower back porch total - not sure. There's at least 6.5" here. I'm in the northern top 3 miles of Lake County, 4.5 miles from the lake - and about 6-7 miles from the 7"+ totals on the southwest side of Kenosha. I'm north of the Waukegan, Gurnee, and I think the Beach Park observer site too. So that's what I did- my snow measuring reasoning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Here's how I measured yesterday. Let me know if I'm messing up somewhere - because I want to take accurate measurements. 90% of the time I'm within 0.5" of the other Beach Park observer. Wind wasn't an issue until after 8pm, so I used my white colored snowboard. The snowboard is about 2' x 2', about 25feet from the north side of the house. No trees within 40 feet, few bushes about 10 feet away. The snowboard is elevated off the ground about a foot. So during the day I measured the real wet snow first, cleared it off - then repeated that until the wind picked up. The wind was northwest last night so the any drifting was very minimal on that side of the house. Once the wind kicked up, I took an average of 5 snow depths - not from the grass, but on wooden railroad ties, the driveway - solid surfaces. Then this morning I took measurements both on the back porch and grass. I summed up the total from all my snowboard and solid surface measurements at about 8am this morning. About 6.5" on the porch and about 7.2" on the grass. I always try to measure on a solid of surface as I can, because the grass is uneven. I also try to measure the snow before it settles. Whether it settled overnight to give a lower back porch total - not sure. There's at least 6.5" here. I'm in the northern top 3 miles of Lake County, 4.5 miles from the lake - and about 6-7 miles from the 7"+ totals on the southwest side of Kenosha. I'm north of the Waukegan, Gurnee, and I think the Beach Park observer site too. So that's what I did- my snow measuring reasoning! Is the board near a fence at the opposite end of your yard? Also how frequently to clear your board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Didn't make it. 1.6" total. Still towards the highish end of expectations. Looks like some crap is about to spread back into your area. GL. All them returns on radar and nothing more than the odd rogue flake coming down here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Is the board near a fence at the opposite end of your yard? Also how frequently to clear your board? Better yet, here is pictures. Fence is 40 feet away (to the east). About every 4 hours during a storm (while I'm at home or not sleeping!) The big tree to the right side does mess up totals if the wind is ESE/SE. Snow board may be more like 18-20 feet from the house. Ruler in picture is a 12" ruler - snow is just below 7" mark. --One thing I thought of... in geology you learn about orographic lift. I am at 750 feet - the highest spot in the eastern half of the county. Probably not enough elevation change to impact snowfall amounts too much. I do know the Kettle Moraine west of Milwaukee is known to get higher totals due to their 1200'+ elevation. _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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