hawkeye_wx Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 I wasn't expecting much snow today with the clipper moving mostly to my sw, but I'm currently getting a heavy burst of snow. Ames got nearly 3 inches earlier this afternoon with 1.7" in one hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlon62 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Dark clouds out over the lake, a brief break in the rest of this overcast allowing some sun through. Currently passing through Sheboygan. Driving back to Chicago after about 250 miles in Marianette County. A nice weekend with picturesque wintry scenes through a mixed bag of trails. The secret was to be early as always. We saw a good 200 sleds yesterday. A half dozen groups with a dozen riders or so apiece. Best snow was around Dunbar but really couldn't go wrong as long as we weren't too long after the groomer. Our ride this morning had some nice set ribbons to glide over courtesy of the sub 15 degree temps overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Snow rate picking up, HRRR was dead on with the timing of the little shortwaves today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 New HRRR has a pretty good vort max moving in around 9-10 pm. http://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/RR/jsloop.cgi?dsKeys=rr:&runTime=2012030419&plotName=vort_t2500&fcstInc=60&numFcsts=19&model=rr&ptitle=RR%20Model%20Fields%20-%20Experimental&maxFcstLen=18&fcstStrLen=-1&resizePlot=1&domain=t2&wjet=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Heavy snow has started once more... sticking better than the last time. About 31F outside right now... fine flakes, at least at the time. NAM was showing a blip of .25" around here... may end up finishing around 3" if you take the .5" from last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Flakes are flying here again. Temperature has failed to crack 30° today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Robins are back in town. Spring! FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Robins are back in town. Spring! FTW Here's my house... what spring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Here's my house... what spring? Nice Pic! Light steady snow here is starting to dust the roof tops and even concrete now. Might see up to an inch according to forecasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Nice Pic! Light steady snow here is starting to dust the roof tops and even concrete now. Might see up to an inch according to forecasts. It's getting steadily heavier, 20 dBZ spots showing up on MKX radar. The precip field is expansive too, wasn't really expecting that. Plenty of snow upstream so we could probably see 1" or so. It's notable that even with almost constant snow today and temps in the mid 20s there's been plenty of melting near streets, sidewalks, and buildings. The sun is gonna nuke the snowpack tomorrow when we get above freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Snowing heavily again here. I was expecting just a bit of light snow, but the central Iowa heavy band has nudged into CR a couple times now. The grass can no longer be seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Snow showers are increasing around here. Got a couple tenths of accumulation now. Still snowing Hawkeye? Update: Moderate snow started at 5:50pm. Flakes are getting larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosaints Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 18z GFS keeps southern above 40...... Every single day after tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Heavy snow in the last 20 minutes...everything is covered including the roads. Measured 2.5" in the back yard, very picturesque looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Moderate snow currently. Big fluffy flakes 3/4" across! 0.6" down. HRRR and NMM picked these snow showers up nicely today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Snow is done. Finished with 1.5" from 0.13" liquid. This is the first time this season my final snow to water ratio is over 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Snow is done. Finished with 1.5". Nice. As close by as the QC got up to a half inch. Didn't get a flake here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 1.0" down here now. Looks like there's more snow showers to go yet this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Measured 2.6" about an hour ago... not much has accumulated since. Would need another heavy band to reach 3". From what I can tell, this has been very highly localized too, which is an added bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Gotta admit that nights like this do help take the sting out of this awful winter. It is beautiful outside with everything plastered in white and still snowing. Despite how terrible it has been this area has had it's share of nights/days like this which will cause me to give the winter a D vs the F after thinking about it a bit. Picked up about 1.5 yesterday/last night and looking at a inch or so so far tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Gotta admit that nights like this do help take the sting out of this awful winter. It is beautiful outside with everything plastered in white and still snowing. Despite how terrible it has been this area has had it's share of nights/days like this which will cause me to give the winter a D vs the F after thinking about it a bit. Picked up about 1.5 yesterday/last night and looking at a inch or so so far tonight. Yeah, winter has tried harder the last few weeks! I'll give it a little more credit. Forecasts were calling for an inch tops, but I'm closing in on 2" now. Over 30" for the winter now. Kudos to the HRRR and NMM models, which predicted these snow showers along the wind shift line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 One county south, but oh well. Closing in on 3" here, forecasted for 2-4" more tonight by CLE URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGENATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 912 PM EST SUN MAR 4 2012 .A BAND OF HEAVY SNOW OVER CENTRAL AREAS OF NORTHERN OHIO WILL SLOWLY SAG SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE NIGHT. STRONG LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY MAY LEAD TO PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOWFALL WITH THUNDER A POSSIBILITY. OHZ017-018-027>032-036>038-047-051015- /O.NEW.KCLE.WW.Y.0005.120305T0212Z-120305T1400Z/ HANCOCK-SENECA-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK- MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FINDLAY...TIFFIN...UPPER SANDUSKY... CAREY...BUCYRUS...MANSFIELD...ASHLAND...WOOSTER...CANTON... MARION...MOUNT GILEAD...MILLERSBURG...MOUNT VERNON 912 PM EST SUN MAR 4 2012 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST MONDAY. * ACCUMULATIONS...3 TO 5 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. * TIMING...BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL SAG SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MID MORNING. * WINDS...NORTH 5 TO 10 MPH. * IMPACTS...SNOW ACCUMULATION CAN MAKE ROADS SLICK...REQUIRING LOWER SPEEDS AND GREATER DISTANCES BETWEEN VEHICLES WHILE DRIVING. * VISIBILITIES...BELOW A QUARTER OF A MILE AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NORMALLY ISSUED FOR A VARIETY OF WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS SUCH AS LIGHT SNOW...BLOWING SNOW... SLEET...FREEZING RAIN AND WIND CHILLS. WHILE THE WEATHER WILL BE SIGNIFICANT, THE WORD ADVISORY IMPLIES THAT SEVERE WINTER WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Yeah, winter has tried harder the last few weeks! I'll give it a little more credit. Forecasts were calling for an inch tops, but I'm closing in on 2" now. Over 30" for the winter now. Kudos to the HRRR and NMM models, which predicted these snow showers along the wind shift line. After this ends down i should be somewhere over the 50" mark which is not too shabby all things considered. Pretty remarkable considering no warning criteria events. Have had a good number of days/nights like this thanks to that Lake. These type of small events are the one constant that has over performed this winter. Snowing at a decent clip right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snohio Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Just measured 3 inches here (about 4 miles west of KTOL). Just by eye, it looked like maybe 4 inches closer to the airport, but I didn't measure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Just measured 3 inches here (about 4 miles west of KTOL). Just by eye, it looked like maybe 4 inches closer to the airport, but I didn't measure. Yeah, that's about what I have in BG. Getting another heavy burst here right now, and probably will get some more as the convergence zone slowly sinks to the south overnight. CLE even mentioned potential thunder for the WWA counties, and Findlay's point and click goes for 3-7" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snohio Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Yeah, that's about what I have in BG. Getting another heavy burst here right now, and probably will get some more as the convergence zone slowly sinks to the south overnight. CLE even mentioned potential thunder for the WWA counties, and Findlay's point and click goes for 3-7" It's a nice surprise. Could be the biggest snow of the year, as sad as that may be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 It's a nice surprise. Could be the biggest snow of the year, as sad as that may be. I just measured 3.25" here, so unless nothing happens overnight it will easily be the largest event. TOL's biggest of the season is 4.2", and given your report it seems pretty likely they'll come very close if not break it. The best convergence still lies to the north of the MI/OH border, so more snow seems likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 friend was just telling me some big time flakes falling in the chicago loop right now, not surprised given the impressive DGZ currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Down to 23° with 2.1" of powdery snow on the snow on the ground tonight! 4" total on ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Down to 23° with 2.1" of powdery snow on the snow on the ground tonight! Nice, Enjoy! Probably looks to be the last true wintry night of the season.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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