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Jan 20th snow event part 2


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  On 1/21/2012 at 2:51 AM, Chicago WX said:

It must have remained all snow on the west side earlier tonight. What a gradient. :D

0910 PM     SNOW             2 W WEST LAFAYETTE      40.44N 86.95W

01/20/2012  U2.5 INCH        TIPPECANOE         IN   PUBLIC

0850 PM     SNOW             WEST LAFAYETTE          40.44N 86.91W

01/20/2012  M2.1 INCH        TIPPECANOE         IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

            NEW SNOW OVER PAST 2 HOURS...STORM TOTAL 2.2

Makes sense considering our varying obs. West side is the promised land. :)

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  On 1/21/2012 at 2:08 AM, Mottster said:

All pingers here.. :axe:

Wife said she saw a few flashes.. Not sure if it was transformers or lightning..

Edit: Some areas are without power now around Lebanon..

I was at Denny's when the power went out. That place gets really dark without power.

I am gonna hate driving to work in the a.m.. I bet it is a total mess.

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  On 1/21/2012 at 2:53 AM, Hoosier said:

Makes sense considering our varying obs. West side is the promised land. :)

That's crazy...ha ha. I kind of thought Keener's post from earlier was strange...and he did mention hitting the liquor store. I guess not. :lol:

I guess this is payback for the east side for the late Nov event where the west side got sorta shafted.

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  On 1/21/2012 at 2:46 AM, Northern_IN_Wx said:

2.7" so far at my place...might end up near 3-3.5 which will likely make my original 1-3" call a miss.

I was wondering when you made that call if you might be in danger of busting low. It looks like you will, but not by much. We're getting pounded down here and have avoided s***t so far. I will get up at 1 AM to take a 6 hour reading. Ity may be winding down by then.

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  On 1/21/2012 at 2:56 AM, Chicago WX said:

That's crazy...ha ha. I kind of thought Keener's post from earlier was strange...and he did mention hitting the liquor store. I guess not. :lol:

I guess this is payback for the east side for the late Nov event where the west side got sorta shafted.

I believe it. Snow is piling up at a decent clip now that the sleet has ended.

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  On 1/21/2012 at 2:58 AM, IWXwx said:

I was wondering when you made that call if you might be in danger of busting low. It looks like you will, but not by much. We're getting pounded down here and have avoided s***t so far. I will get up at 1 AM to take a 6 hour reading. Ity may be winding down by then.

Yeah I made that forecast a couple of days ago and thought lack of blocking would cause a northward shift. lol....fail. Anyways, glad you are actually getting some real snow flakes down there. Nothing but needles/plates/crap up here. oh well.

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  On 1/21/2012 at 2:17 AM, Gilbertfly said:

7.6 at 8:00 last little wave gave me a little bump. . .i expect that to be it unless I catch a little LE . . .

System snow completed. . .had about another trace since 8:00 which is when i also cleaned off the driveway after my measurements then. . .

storm total 7.7 at 9:00

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  On 1/21/2012 at 2:56 AM, Chicago WX said:

That's crazy...ha ha. I kind of thought Keener's post from earlier was strange...and he did mention hitting the liquor store. I guess not. :lol:

I guess this is payback for the east side for the late Nov event where the west side got sorta shafted.

It's been all snow here and a lot of it. Crazy gradient I guess? Weird.

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  On 1/21/2012 at 3:11 AM, blue60007 said:

Good clip now. I can no longer see my benchmark -the high tension tower lit up by the St E landing pad down the street.

Mine is looking west over/through some trees at lights. I think it's the VP. But yeah, good low visibilities right now. Rally caps on.

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Snow is very dense powder here, probably 10-1 ratio. It looks like sugar, and has about the consistency of it too. One of those snows where when you go to shovel it it piles up quickly as you are pushing the shovel, far cry from the easy fluffy powder. Thinking we end up with 2.5-3" of dense powder when all is said and done. A sledders dream snow, packed powder that will not settle much at all, and looks like we will at least meet model qpf, if not exceed it, but ratios are just not there.

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  On 1/21/2012 at 3:14 AM, KeenerWx said:

It's been all snow here and a lot of it. Crazy gradient I guess? Weird.

Nuts. And fascinating. It was 80/20 sleet at times here earlier tonight...if not a bit greater. I'd get moments of all snow...big flakes, but then it would transition back. Been snowing like hell for the past hour or so here...so all is not lost.

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AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN

1016 PM EST FRI JAN 20 2012

BUMPED SNOW AMOUNTS CLOSER TO 4 INCHES ACROSS THE NORTH...AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS UP TO A QUARTER OF AN INCH OVER THE SOUTH. DECIDED TO STAY WITH ADVISORY AND NOT UPGRADE TO WARNING. ANTICIPATE ICE ACCUMULATIONS TO COME RIGHT UP TO A QUARTER OF AN INCH...BUT NOT MUCH ABOVE IT. PLUS...WINDS WILL NOT BE STRONG...WHICH SHOULD REDUCE THE CHANCES FOR DOWNED TREES AND POWERLINES.

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  On 1/21/2012 at 3:19 AM, Chicago WX said:

Nuts. And fascinating. It was 80/20 sleet at times here earlier tonight...if not a bit greater. I'd get moments of all snow...big flakes, but then it would transition back. Been snowing like hell for the past hour or so here...so all is not lost.

You own some of us one.. :whistle:

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