turtlehurricane Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 2.9", 1.2" last hour! Moderate to heavy snow falling now, visibility probably under half a mile. Larger flakes are trying to mix in. Sounds like we have 20:1 ratios already considering the .06" liquid measured at MSN last hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Did the last model shift around again? It's dropping but painfully slowly. 34.0° right now. GL on accumulations! Hopefully this band can wrap back on itself as the cold air bleeds south. Looks like the snow is only 15-20 miles from here. Well I think the difference is the low shifted closer or right on top of the 0C line. Previously the models had the low well SE or NE of the collapsing thicknesses. Maybe that was the issue, the deformation band was mistakenly progged to be too far off from the low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 It isn't snow! Not even a mix down here. This weather this morning is bogus! Was expecting some good flakes flying by this time! Just another crappy rain to snow transition. These things never seem to go as advertised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 OMG @ ORD's winter. Radar just shows how bad it's been. This is getting beyond epic proportions of disgusting. Really the Big dog record is looking more and more possible each missing storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Kirksville MO just went down to 1/2 mile in moderate snow, yet radar shows nothing. Combination of them being so far away from any radar site and what apparently is snow falling out of relatively low clouds. Sure would love to see a radar site down there someday, but with recent budget cuts by the NWS I highly doubt that will ever happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Just another crappy rain to snow transition. These things never seem to go as advertised. Exactly. According to the RAP is should be showing across all of eastern IA! There's a lot of the band missing. Leave it to the RAP to overblow the deformation band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Exactly. According to the RAP is should be showing across all of eastern IA! There's a lot of the band missing. Leave it to the RAP to overblow the deformation band. Yeah this morning most of eastern MO was bone dry where many of the models yesterday had a vort spinning up precip there. Exponential growth of computing power is apparently not helping model guidance, as if anything their ability has regressed over the last 5 years IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 About 5.5 inches here now. Tons of blowing when I was out doing driveways. Snow has let up quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Exactly. According to the RAP is should be showing across all of eastern IA! There's a lot of the band missing. Leave it to the RAP to overblow the deformation band. And looking at dual pol, the transition line is not going to get here before the dryslut does. This is the winter of nightmares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 To my untrained eye, it looks to be coming down the hardest it has all day.. Temp at 24F... Gorgeous out there....love to be out in the woods, pair of snowshoes, bottle of wine...couple of college cuties... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 And looking at dual pol, the transition line is not going to get here before the dryslut does. This is the winter of nightmares. Yeah, I don't know what to say. We will wishcast a monster February blizzard to track through Indianapolis or thereabouts so it can smack Chicago well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 3.5-4" measured in several spots, snow is blowing around quite a bit so the snow is well distributed, not much drifting yet. Madison has become a ghost town, only a few people and a car occasionally, driving is treacherous at this point. 0.08" liquid in the last 45 mins, up to 0.29" total. With these ratios that's at least 1.5"/hour, maybe more like 2"/hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewers Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 All snow here now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftfeuchtigkeit Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 4.2", 1.3" last hour. Starting to blow around so measuring is beginning to get less exact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Remember last night's RGEM showing N Illinois jackpotting? It's almost worth not even speaking of the model again if it could bust so badly so close to an event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Snow just started here. Big fat flakes coming down. Still a little above freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Just ripping snow here! EASILY best rippage of the year.. Precip over E. Iowa organizing a bit better too and should swing by here a little later and the defo shield moves east later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Remember last night's RGEM showing N Illinois jackpotting? It's almost worth not even speaking of the model again if it could bust so badly so close to an event. Total bust! Performed horribly. So did the NAM with the cold air and deformation band position. GFS probably had the best handle on this system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Just ripping snow here! Yep, our new blizzards are two hours of rippage, so we're enjoying that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Deformation band approaching from the west is intensifying. I'm hoping it gets here before the dry slot, might be close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Moderate snow here now. 33.6°. Looks like Cyclone will get back into some backlash snow in a little while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosaints Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I cant believe how this thing ended up playing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 up to 4.6" here. 1.8" in the last hour and half or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 12z GFS/NAM still spit out a few hundredths here this evening when it would be cold enough for snow. Don't stop believing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 12z GFS/NAM still spit out a few hundredths here this evening when it would be cold enough for snow. Don't stop believing. Riding my 6 flakes call for LAF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Riding my 6 flakes call for LAF At least there's one call we're not likely to bust on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 At least there's one call we're not likely to bust on. called for .1" IMBY..might be ok there as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 called for .1" IMBY..might be ok there as well Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Down to -SN now. Got a little slush on my windshield. I can't believe Skilling is still showing a solid area of light snow moving through later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Still snowing...some more blowing too... 23F ... Just shoveled the driveway...lot more snow then i thought there was going to be even late last night. Good storm.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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