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January 12-14 Winter Storm Part 2


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Looks like the storm is determined on making my late afternoon flight from DTX to MSN risky, though I'm not sure since I'm not an expert on snow clearing techniques at MSN. HRRR says the storm will max out from 5 am to 4 pm. My flight is supposed to land at 4 pm, so right after the most accumulation.

Any opinions stebo?

Also, I'm pumped to fly over this mid-latitude cyclone if we do end up going. Many photos to be taken. If not, I'll use this forum as a log while I try to survive Detroit.

Survive Detroit... lol plus its DTW not DTX. Also what airlines?

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Thundersnow12, congrats to you definitely for getting to intern with Skilling. He's a great guy and certainly will give you quite a few pointers when it comes to meteorology. I conversed with him often when I was in school at NIU. It will certainly be an experience to remember and cherish.

I do like that DVN is finally highlighting was I was talking about earlier today with the possibility of a narrow band of heavier snow from the Quad Cities up through Dubuque...~30mi either side of this line. Going to be some surprise totals approaching 7-8" likely...with widespread 4-6" totals.

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Had fun again in IDV. A nice little patch of Frontogenesis around Chicago area at 925mb on the 05z RUC. This looks to be aiding in some enhanced lift in the area. We'll have to watch it and see how it plays out. The FGEN is at a pretty low level in that area, and when viewed in a cross section, there is not so much tilt to it implying more of a statically stable atmosphere which indeed is the case when looking at BUFKIT time/height profiles of theta-e.

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portion of the LOT afd...

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=LOT&issuedby=LOT&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1

INTERESTINGLY...SOME OF THE HI-RES MESOSCALE MODELS ARE SUGGESTING

THAT THERE COULD BE SOME MESOSCALE BANDING OF HEAVY SNOW DEVELOPING

BY THIS AFTERNOON OVER PORTIONS OF OUR CWA IN ASSOCIATION WITH

STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL FRONTOGENETIC CIRCULATION. SHOULD THAT OCCUR

IT WOULD NOT BE AT ALL HARD TO ENVISION A BAND OF SNOWFALL TOTALS IN

8-12 INCH RANGE...PARTICULARLY CLOSE TO PIVOT POINT WHERE HEAVIER

SNOW BAND WILL SIT THE LONGEST AS THE ORIENTATION GOES FROM WNW-ESE

TO MORE NE-SW TONIGHT. REALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PINPOINT THOSE TYPE OF

MESO-BETA SCALE TYPE PHENOMENA THIS FAR IN ADVANCE SO RATHER THAN

BLANKETING 23 COUNTIES WITH A WARNING WHEN ITD PROBABLY ONLY BE A

FRACTION OF THOSE REACH CRITERIA HAVE OPTED TO LET THE ADVISORY

RIDE WITH 4-8 INCH AMOUNTS AND JUST MENTION LOCALLY HEAVIER TOTALS

IN THE WSW. AS MESOSCALE DETAILS START TO UNFOLD LATER TODAY ITS

POSSIBLE THAT THE DAY SHIFT MAY NEED TO UPGRADE PORTIONS OF THE

ADVISORY TO A WARNING.

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portion of the LOT afd...

INTERESTINGLY...SOME OF THE HI-RES MESOSCALE MODELS ARE SUGGESTING

THAT THERE COULD BE SOME MESOSCALE BANDING OF HEAVY SNOW DEVELOPING

BY THIS AFTERNOON OVER PORTIONS OF OUR CWA IN ASSOCIATION WITH

STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL FRONTOGENETIC CIRCULATION. SHOULD THAT OCCUR

IT WOULD NOT BE AT ALL HARD TO ENVISION A BAND OF SNOWFALL TOTALS IN

8-12 INCH RANGE...PARTICULARLY CLOSE TO PIVOT POINT WHERE HEAVIER

SNOW BAND WILL SIT THE LONGEST AS THE ORIENTATION GOES FROM WNW-ESE

TO MORE NE-SW TONIGHT. REALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PINPOINT THOSE TYPE OF

MESO-BETA SCALE TYPE PHENOMENA THIS FAR IN ADVANCE SO RATHER THAN

BLANKETING 23 COUNTIES WITH A WARNING WHEN ITD PROBABLY ONLY BE A

FRACTION OF THOSE REACH CRITERIA HAVE OPTED TO LET THE ADVISORY

RIDE WITH 4-8 INCH AMOUNTS AND JUST MENTION LOCALLY HEAVIER TOTALS

IN THE WSW. AS MESOSCALE DETAILS START TO UNFOLD LATER TODAY ITS

POSSIBLE THAT THE DAY SHIFT MAY NEED TO UPGRADE PORTIONS OF THE

ADVISORY TO A WARNING.

agree with this, RUC has been consistenly hammering ne IL east of DKB and along north of 80. Banding just sits over that area.

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