Geos Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 lol Looks like Kirksville, MO will hit the snow jackpot tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The streets are moist here. No snow to speak of. Big turd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Just by looking at the radar it looks like the best snow accumulations will shoot from northeast Missouri through central Illinois, and over towards LAF. The image of the HRRR posted above points that out pretty nicely. Could be a respectable snow in that corridor. Not really expecting too much here now. May pick up some light snow when that band out near Cedar Rapids moves through later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 lol WOW! Hrr is usually fairly accurate, Indy might be in for a surprise, Maybe Columbus too. Like I said monster clipper. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 lol As it should be this winter. Eh, may have to bump my call to 1.5"...to fall in line with Hoosier and IND's call of 1-2" for LAF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 If we get 4" of snow I'm gonna be a pissed off duck. I don't have my boots. Sent from my ADR6400L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 And it's lightly snowing here. Temps still a bit warm though...sitting at 36 on my thermometer. EDIT: LAF reporting light rain. And the highest temp in the state at 9PM. Strangest looking white rain ever. EDIT EDIT: LAF now reporting -SN 16 minutes later. Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Just dropped below freezing on top of the met building as the band just to the west crawls closer. 20-30 dBZ at 6-7 k feet, seems to be getting better as the scan altitude gets lower. Lone Rock has reported snow with visibilities as low as 3/4 mile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Evening update from IWX. The part mentioning the southwest parts of their CWA is good stuff for LAF. Light snow and temp down to 35, and dropping, here currently. .UPDATE... CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL TRENDS SEEM TO BE SUPPORTING PREVIOUS FORECAST TO THIS POINT. INCREASE IN RADAR RETURNS NOTED THE PAST FEW HOURS ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS DOWNSTREAM OF THE STRONGER UPPER LEVEL FORCING JUST NOW EXITING THE CENTRAL PLAINS. A WEAKLY FRONTOGENETIC FLOW APPEARS TO BE SETTING UP AND ENHANCING A FAIRLY STRONG LOW LEVEL THERMAL RIBBON (-5 DEG CELSIUS PER 00Z KDVN RAOB AND +1 DEG CELSIUS PER 00Z KILN RAOB). HIGHER RESOLUTION MODEL OUTPUT AND EVEN NAM40 APPEAR TO HAVE SOME INDICATION OF THIS WEST TO EAST EXPANSION OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE AREA INITIALLY. ISENTROPIC PROGS OF 285K SFC ALSO SUGGEST SOME INCREASING ISENTROPIC ASCENT LATER THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE AREA EVENTUALLY ALLOWING SNOW TO OVERSPREAD NWRN HALF OF THE AREA TOWARD 06Z. EVEN SOME REPORTS OF SOME -RA WITH BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPS IN THE LOWER TO MID 30S ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. DID ADD A CHANCE RAIN/SNOW MENTION ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST FOR A FEW HOURS THIS EVENING BUT WILL STAY WITH PREDOMINATELY SNOW FOR THE OVERNIGHT. PREVIOUS FCSTED SNOW AMOUNTS STILL APPEAR REASONABLE WITH A POSSIBILITY OF TWO AREAS OF SLIGHTLY ENHANCED MAXIMUM SNOWFALL...ONE ACROSS FAR NWRN IND/SWRN LWR MICHIGAN WITH SOME WEAK LAKE ENHANCEMENT...AND ANOTHER POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE AREA WHERE A PERIOD OF SOME BETTER WEST TO EAST BANDING IS POSSIBLE DURING EARLIER STAGES OF THE OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE INITIAL LIFT LATER THIS EVENING HOWEVER WILL BE SPENT TOWARD ERODING A FAIRLY PRONOUNCED DRY LAYER EVIDENT IN THE 900 TO 750 HPA LAYER ON THIS EVENINGS REGIONAL AMDAR SOUNDINGS. ALL IN ALL...1 TO 2 INCH SNOW AMOUNTS APPEAR TO BE INLINE AS UPPER FORCING INCREASES WITH BETTER DEEPER SATURATION OVERNIGHT. SLIGHTLY LESSER AMOUNTS EXPECTED ACROSS FAR EAST/SOUTHEAST WHERE ISENTROPIC/FRONTOGENESIS PROGS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE QUITE AS IMPRESSIVE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 34° here. Humidity creeping up. No precip. yet. +R at Lincoln right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 34° here. Humidity creeping up. No precip. yet. +R at Lincoln right now. Pretty weak heavy rain with only 5 miles visibility. 8:35 ob has them over to snow. Uh huh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 And we've achieved full saturation here. Some very light snow falling now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 -SN here, not much virga at all to start. Good band along I-39 south of RFD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 lolz HRRR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Got a quarter inch this afternoon, which quickly melted from the pavement and deck, and then got another quarter inch this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 lolz HRRR That would be nice! -SN here now. Saturation complete! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 lolz HRRR at the RUC as well.. Honestly though Radar does look really healthy west and south of here.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 at the RUC as well.. Biggest storm of the year, enjoy it. May not see another for 10 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Biggest storm of the year, enjoy it. May not see another for 10 months. lol, not good Nic. Not good good at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Snowing pretty good here, dendrites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Latest hrrr showing 2" here. I will believe it when I see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Snowing nicely, got a dusting down.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Snowing nicely, got a dusting down.. same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Flakes increasing in size. Accumulation starting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Mod snow at Bloomington. Looking at ILX's radar, nice band very near them right now. Probably gonna be whiff north for here though. Temp on the way back up here (36) after the snow stopped. Probably going to lose some accumulation (melting) with temps not wanting to really respond here...when the snow returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 not bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 For such a late start it actually turned out pretty decent here. Picked up about 3/4" with a few periods of respectable snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Snowing nicely, got a dusting down.. Solid coating down now and snowing even better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 -SN here, with under a half inch accum so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Looking a tad warm to get much in the way of accums here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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