Boogieman Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I'm seeing that solid band from about Perry, MI SW through Chicago darkening rapidly and heading right this way up I-69. I think it's going to be ripping here in just a few more minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 A few minutes ago we were getting some flakes as long as 2 inches. It's a shame this band of heavy snow is pulling eastward so quickly. It seems like it just started ripping and it is already leaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magoos0728 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Kenosha getting pounded right now. If not for the eariler mix/rain...we'd have quite a few more inches down. Out towards 94, it'll be heavier than by the lakefront. Unless there is a lake effect poss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Snowing hardest all night so far. 3.0"+ now. Visibility is probably under 0.5 mile. Edit/update: 3.2" at 1am. Noticed the sky has brightened up since the snowfall rates have increased. Could almost read a book outside! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 We have alot of snow in my floridian opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boogieman Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Wow... I just let the ankle-mutt out and the grass is pretty well covered already, and it's falling pretty good right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Wow... I just let the ankle-mutt out and the grass is pretty well covered already, and it's falling pretty good right now. Can you update your profile so that we all know where you are? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 A brief shower here at VPZ. Still have yet to see a flake from this event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogget Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Looks like four inches here. We have a WWA for 4-6 inches by tomorrow AM. Looks like we're gonna make it, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Is it just me...or has this precip lost half it's intensity (I'm just northwest of Kitchener on the map) 1am... 2am... Argh...at 220am it's practically half of what it was at 2am. Must be dry air mixing or something. Hope this doesn't hurt my forecast totals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Probably snowing close to 1" per hour out there! 6"-7" seems likely in the end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlon62 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Probably snowing close to 1" per hour out there! 6"-7" seems likely in the end! Looking damn good here too my friend. Snow is plastered to the window screen now outside my second story window. Just a quick wake up here as the .commute back in starts at 4 a.m. It might be a good call to just leave sooner but I need sleep. It's tough to miss this thing too though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Looking damn good here too my friend. Snow is plastered to the window screen now outside my second story window. Just a quick wake up here as the .commute back in starts at 4 a.m. It might be a good call to just leave sooner but I need sleep. It's tough to miss this thing too though... My evergreen trees are plastered. Gotta get some sleep now. Definitely have to move some snow in the morning! Looks like a small break SW of here, then more to come from NW IL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boogieman Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Since I posted 50 minutes ago, there's over an inch on the ground, looks like 1.5. There was a bit of a dry slot to the south and west, which apparently has filled back in. We might get a half-hour break in the snow coming up, then it looks like it's really going to throw down. NOAA AFD earlier said the heaviest snow would start around 4 AM local time, which looks pretty much on the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Congrats to all of you guys...it was sorely needed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 up to 2.4" now. -SN continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajdos Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Egh---What a terrible storm...this thing is like moisture-less....even GRR, noting special.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Ay up...about ready to throw in the towel. Getting very impatient waiting for that precip to arrive from SEMI/SWON for the last 5 hours. It went from a healthy band to pockets of spotty dbz's over Oxford and Brant Counties and City of Hamilton. Each time it advances this way, it just craps out and dissipates. So much for our 4" overnights...though lots of activity building back over Lambton County and Lake Huron. Who even knows. 6-8" is the forecast....not going to happen is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajdos Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Got around 2" here..Thus far.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowMeHunter Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 So bright out there with snow caked to every possible surface. Starting to fizzle out up here.. Looks like euro has a good read on it now sliding it more to the south of here than 12z. Should be great timing for alek to get a nice show in the am. GL and enjoy to the south and east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 if there's going to be TSSN, it's going to come with that band currently moving through the DVN/MLI area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowMeHunter Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 if there's going to be TSSN, it's going to come with that band currently moving through the DVN/MLI area. Fine - be a stuck up wench and don't weenie out on yahoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Ay up...about ready to throw in the towel. Getting very impatient waiting for that precip to arrive from SEMI/SWON for the last 5 hours. It went from a healthy band to pockets of spotty dbz's over Oxford and Brant Counties and City of Hamilton. Each time it advances this way, it just craps out and dissipates. So much for our 4" overnights...though lots of activity building back over Lambton County and Lake Huron. Who even knows. 6-8" is the forecast....not going to happen is it. This might end up being even a bigger bust than I thought. Like maybe a sloppy coating? What I don't get is why does a hobbyist/weenie like me sees this a mile away while trained METS are oblivious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I just went out to measure and bring in my cocorahs rain gauge cylinder before the water in it freezes. Late this evening I only had about an inch left on the ground. The heavy snow band finally went through after midnight. It went through fairly fast, but the flakes were huge. I was shocked to measure nearly 4 inches. The snow rate in that band must have been incredible. The snow may be wet, but there is a 2+ inch layer that is extremely fluffy and airy. I can't remember the last time I saw everything plastered with thick, clumpy snow like this. It looks pretty wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QVectorman Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 This is so hard to judge where the heaviest snow has fallen... sporadic pockets of snow all over it's like watching pop corn storms in the summer. Anyways...Fudge I'm worried no one will even get to 4" to at least verify my 4"-8" forecast for JXN, LAN, Battle Creek. I think my 3-5 will verify for DTW by morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QVectorman Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 This might end up being even a bigger bust than I thought. Like maybe a sloppy coating? What I don't get is why does a hobbyist/weenie like me sees this a mile away while trained METS are oblivious? ??? I tried to tell you guys all afternoon. It was plain as day that there wasn't a good moisture field with it. NWS on the other had has to follow protocal so from what I'm told most of the time they are bounded by the models and a list of check boxes than eventually funnels down into a snowfall amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 This might end up being even a bigger bust than I thought. Like maybe a sloppy coating? What I don't get is why does a hobbyist/weenie like me sees this a mile away while trained METS are oblivious? Probably the weenie in all those mets holding out dire hope. This is maddening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 ??? I tried to tell you guys all afternoon. It was plain as day that there wasn't a good moisture field with it. NWS on the other had has to follow protocal so from what I'm told most of the time they are bounded by the models and a list of check boxes than eventually funnels down into a snowfall amount. Nah, not blaming you. There is protocol and such. But what I notice is...EC Toronto won't act on these big winter events until after an adjacent NWS office pulls the trigger. They were toting too much uncertainty in the big picture up until DTX went winter storm warning. Then suddenly they were issuing warnings up the board causing a big time media frenzy with all those journalists playing weatherman making calls for doomsday snows. Just how I see it. Same goes for severe thunderstorm, tornado, or other winter events. EC is completely oblivious until after something happens...or until an NWS office says it's coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Light snow now, round 1 winding down.Gonna catch some z's now, wake up in a few hours to see if there's anything worth staying up for...still a thundersnow virgin Nope. Instead I wake up to the Warning canceled and DTX expecting less than an additional inch of accumulation. Which would still leave me without a 4" snowstorm for the season. Which kinda sucks 'night again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QVectorman Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Probably the weenie in all those mets holding out dire hope. This is maddening. Meteorology takes experience and knowledge. It takes years of watching these storms to understand their tendencies. Wxstn74/Bill Deeder and I saw this from a mile away. Read his blog. We both noted the storm was short on moisture to begin with and had a track that climatologically produces 4-8 inches max. Everyone only wants to hear the big numbers and then whines when the low amts verify. Same as how everyone loves JB b/c he goes guns a blazing and falls on his face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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