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December 13-14th Winter Storm


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I agree with everything they have said and been saying. Thing is also, temps will be quite cool in the low 20s during a majority of this event and as they said the lift seems impressive. Large swath should be able to get 6+

no doubt the swath of waa looks impressive, and probably will perform beyond expectations in a few places, but last minute phasing beyond what models are showing?....that's the stuff of weenie chat rooms and water vapor hallucinations.

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Seeing some mood flakes downtown.

 

Starting to see some moisture on the composite radar. 

 

MKX went with the warning.

 

 

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI

334 PM CST FRI DEC 13 2013

...LAKE EFFECT SNOWS EXPECTED THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY...

.LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK WELL SOUTH OF WISCONSIN TONIGHT THROUGH

SATURDAY. COLD EAST TO NORTHEAST WINDS BLOWING ACROSS THE

RELATIVELY WARMER WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN WILL SET THE STAGE FOR

A PROLONGED LAKE EFFECT SNOW EVENT FOR SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. SOME

LIGHT SNOW HAS BEGUN TO FALL NEAR THE LAKE AND WILL CONTINUE INTO

LATE AFTERNOON. BY EVENING...CONDITIONS WILL BECOME EVEN MORE

FAVORABLE AND AT THAT POINT THE SNOW SHOULD INCREASE IN INTENSITY

AND THEN CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY...DIMINISHING IN THE AFTERNOON

AND EVENING.

SNOWFALL WITH LAKE EFFECT SNOW EVENTS IS BY NATURE VERY TOUGH TO

PREDICT. IT IS DIFFICULT TO KNOW AHEAD OF TIME JUST WHERE ANY

FOCUSED LAKE SNOW BANDS WILL SET UP. WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT MUCH

OF THE AREA WILL SEE 3 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW...WITH THE HIGHEST

AMOUNTS CLOSE TO THE LAKE. WE ALSO FEEL THERE IS A PRETTY GOOD

CHANCE THAT SOME AREAS WITHIN THE COUNTIES BORDERING THE LAKE

COULD SEE AMOUNTS APPROACH OR EXCEED 8 INCHES...PARTICULARLY FROM

RACINE NORTH TO OZAUKEE COUNTY WHERE THE LAKE EFFECT WATCH HAS

BEEN UPGRADED TO A WARNING.

GIVEN THE PERSISTENT EASTERLY FLOW...THIS LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL

SPREAD ACROSS NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN OVERNIGHT.

ACCUMULATIONS WILL FALL OFF QUICKLY OUT TOWARD MADISON AND POINTS

WEST.

 

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Starting to see some moisture on the composite radar. 

 

MKX went with the warning.

 

Yeah the light returns on composite are a good sign that we shouldn't be far from seeing some base returns and hopefully some light snow.  I really thought MKX should and would go with an advisory, but whatever.  Hope somebody in the warned area sees 6-8" so it's at least close to verifying.

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amazing...and not one model has picked this up...just the keen eyes of a satellite-watching forecaster.  

 

lol...sorry, but c'mon.

I'm not saying he's right, but that disco was written by Sam Lashley, a highly respected met at IWX. I am well acquainted with him and he is not one to go out on a limb with a forecast. Anyway you slice it, I'm looking good for at least 6" and hey, if ORD gets a surprise, all the better. Lol

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on my way home from work...SW side of PIA about 15 min ago 1 mile from the airport ..light rain/sleet/snow  temp 36...now here on the NW side light-mod snow temp 32

 

 changed over and temp dropped at I-74/474 on the west side

 

edit: just looked at radar..my obs match up perfectly to the thin lead heavier precip band over PIA

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recent signs point to that being a little low.

 

 

This is probably one of those times that LOT wishes it could split Cook county into multiple zones.  Southeast part of the county looks like a lock for advisory amounts and possibly areas farther north along the lake if lake enhancement comes through.

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You talking about the suspicions that this has been phasing more than modeled?

radar trends look good, 18z runs continued 12z trend of slight qpf bumps, and I'm beginning to like our position for a pseudo pivot point.

maybe 1-2 with the initial slug and another 1-2 with the defo-ish feature. (speaking about Chicago proper here)

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