A-L-E-K Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Started my commute from Lincoln Park with slush of a few inches and mist falling from the sky. As I headed north on 90 to 94, snow depth increased and the mist turned to flakes. Sitting in Lincolnshire there is moderate to borderline heavy snow falling at the moment. I missed the big one in Chicago two years ago. The city has been paying for it since and I have been lucky enough to move in just in time. your daily commute sounds awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Moderate snow right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestChaser Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 heavy snow again near wood dale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Moderate snow right now. just started on the northside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Congrats Geos! Light rain has started back up here, mixed with an occasional ice ball. Needless to say, wrap around snow fail for the LAF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Light rain has started back up here, mixed with an occasional ice ball. Needless to say, wrap around snow fail for the LAF. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestChaser Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Congrats Geos! Light rain has started back up here, mixed with an occasional ice ball. Needless to say, wrap around snow fail for the LAF. start lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 +sn... Just in time for me to drive to moline for work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Just started ripping on the far northside...first snow heavy enough to accumulate since yesterday around 2 pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Down to 1/4 mile vis, accumulating on everything but treated roads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Love it..... Wish BowMe would get 20 inches every week from now until May Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Well, it's not black and white. About an inch downtown, 3" and counting here, 5" where you are. The gradient worked out but the amounts weren't as high. I was thinking about 8" near Steeles Ave by about 10 this morning, and I was one of the more conservative calls. I measured about 7" before I started shoveling an hour ago. 7" of wet, compact, snowball making snow. A tall pine tree on my street is bent over, a small tree by my house was brought down by the weight of the snow. Will try and post pictures later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 PalmBoy is saying he has 14 inches on top of Mt Saukville... Says its still coming down. Loves it. Already putting back out his Christmas decorations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n1vek Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 your daily commute sounds awful Not daily at all, thank god. Just for this week while I am on this client. Normally I am brown line to the loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Hmm....i got about 11.8cm of cement LOL -_- What a bust with this storm but in a way it was sort of a possibility given the marginal temps but i didnt expect this in higher elevated regions like Caledon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 PalmBoy is saying he has 14 inches on top of Mt Saukville... Says its still coming down. Loves it. Already putting back out his Christmas decorations I believe it Sheboygan had over 14" -SN right now with spells of moderate snow moving through. Snowpiles 3-4' are common along my street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I measured about 7" before I started shoveling an hour ago. 7" of wet, compact, snowball making snow. A tall pine tree on my street is bent over, a small tree by my house was brought down by the weight of the snow. Will try and post pictures later. Snowstorms at the same latitude but to your west wasn't even so lucky. Congrats. You might have ended up being the sweet spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Snowstorms at the same latitude but to your west wasn't even so lucky. Congrats. You might have ended up being the sweet spot. Given the snow rates I was seeing about 12:30am this morning, you're probably right. It was really intense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDude Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Now a mist here misty rain meeting aurora snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Given the snow rates I was seeing about 12:30am this morning, you're probably right. It was really intense! That was the problem here. it was light snow by 12:30 here, lool. and then around 2ish it was mostly ice pellets and mixing. YYZ recorded 10cm so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 The 12z Canadian would seem to indicate the snow picking up again across the GTA between 6pm-midnight this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Changed over to plain liquid coming here sitting at 35 degrees. I was wondering why it looked like the snow suddenly stopped with 20 dbz band directly overhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Temp has not moved here beyond 30-32.2° since this system started 22 hours ago. Had about an inch compaction but sitting really close to 15" so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 NWOH finally getting in on some snow action today... probably won't do much but at least it's better than the 34F and rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Storm synopsis from my backyard. Still snowing actually, and probably will for a while, but the main event is about wrapped up. 6:15pm: Moderate snow begins. Temps just above freezing at the surface. 6:45pm: Switch over to rain/ice pellet mix, with a bit of snow thrown in. Temps hovering around freezing. 8:30pm: Finally switch back to snow. +SN for a while. Huge flakes. 10:30pm: Back to rain/ice pellet/snow mix. This window is where we lost a lot of our totals. Almost pure rain for about half an hour. At this point we are under the highest returns, the meat of the deformation band. TROWAL passing over head. Surface temps -0.7C for this entire period. Total accumulation 2.75" until this point. 12:30pm: Switch back to +SN for a few hours straight. Measured rates of 1.25"/hour. Winter storm conditions during this period, high winds, gusts to 40 knots. This was the most enjoyable part of the storm. Amazing rates! Less than 350ft visibility this entire period. 3:30pm: Dry slow moves in. Rates slow considerably, but never really completely stop. Woke up this morning and measured a total of 5.5", probably another 0.5"-0.75" since I last measured. Overall, a very entertaining storm to track and watch. Watching some near blizzard conditions for an hour was great to see, including one flash of lightning. I think its pretty amazing I managed to measure a rate of 1.25"/hour given the terrible ratios (this would have been easily over 2"/hour in a colder storm). Huge QPF which unfortunately didn't translate to all snow as the models showed. Probably lost a good 2"+ to rain. Would have to estimate snow-water equiv. averaged around 5 or 6:1 for the whole event. Had this storm happened a week ago we may have seen twice the snow accumulation, and maybe a historic storm. Been fun tracking this one with you all, I'm still happy with the overall experience. It was a tense one to watch! Some pics: Aaaand video, best rates of the night: That's a wrap, until next time, harrisale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torontonian Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 My call a few days ago for 3 inches of slush IMBY might verify after residual flurries. Downtown T.O.. is a snowhole. Probably why natives and early settlers settled here centuries ago. FWIW FTW weather models....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 My call a few days ago for 3 inches of slush IMBY might verify after residual flurries. Downtown T.O.. is a snowhole. Probably why natives and early settlers settled here centuries ago. FWIW FTW weather models....lol This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 5.1" at MSN as of 6 am, been snowing continuously since then and still coming down. GFS says accumulating snow will continue through the evening, with light snow until Thursday afternoon. If we keep getting trained on by these bands that snowfall total could go up alot more than 1-2", which is the original forecast for today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastFromTheEast Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Pretty sick bad moving through here off of the lake. Snowing probably close to the hardest it came down yesterday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 So my theory as to why Toronto and Ontario in general goes like this. I'm not a trained met so I'm hoping someone else can chime in as well. Most models forecast us to be all snow, particularly away from the lakeshore. But, even at higher elevations with temps safely below freezing, there way still a larger period of freezing rain and ice pellets (mixed with some snow). Now given that the surface temps were below zero AND soundings did not show a low level warm layer, the models went nuts on snow totals. We were located right under the deformation band for a significant portion of the storm. I have a feeling that the TROWAL was actually TOO warm, and that precipitation could not form into snow before it hit the ground. So although this resulted in very high precipitation rates, it really cut our snow accumulation down. thoughts? (I may be entirely wrong) EDIT: Also it appears storm track was more northern than expected, which may have brought more warm air up this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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