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December 21-22nd Winter Storm Part 3


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Most likely outcome, I believe, leading wave continues to slog east and gradually collapses overnight and Sat with remnant over Lake Ontario, main low finds difficulty in pushing fronts back north and tracks over EVV towards TOL then turns east over ERI and just south of ROC. Precip in w NY all rain most of event ending as wet snow. Precip in s ON goes rain to fr rain to ice pellets to snow which may mean no particular location gets massive freezing rain but for GTA will speculate 10 mm rain, 5 mm fr rain, equivalent to 5 mm pellets then a 7 to 12 cm snow top up near end of event Sunday. Worst freezing rain likely to be London to Hamilton. Meanwhile would agree with earlier estimates on snow west and north of Chicago but could heavy up the WI amounts and expect 7-12 inches across central lower MI into parts of s/c ON north of a Sarnia to Guelph to Peterborough line. Detroit gets mostly rain and freezing rain topping off with 1-2 inches of snow near end of event. That trends to 3-5 inches in Pontiac to Lansing. Ohio and Indiana mostly rain changing over in north towards end of event.

 

1.5" to 3.0" across Chicago from south to north, 5 to 10 across southeast WI.

 

There is maybe a 20-30 per cent chance that this would all go colder and back to a larger snowfall event, still don't entirely trust the northward drift on some model runs and leading wave is not the main player so whatever it does could be irrelevant. Recall that before the Chicago blizzard in 1967, Toronto (and Georgetown where I was then a high school student) hit 60 F on the 25th then went into a massive ice pellet-freezing rain storm on 26th to 10 inches of snow on 27th. Something like that is still possible here.

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This is a very tricky forecast for DVN's Eastern and Southern zones as the snowfall will cut off very sharply in those areas... tremendous warmth just to our S waiting to be advected NE into these areas and concerns about models always underdoing WAA.  Ogle, Lee, Henry, Henderson, Warren, and maybe Knox counties are going to have some tremendous variances on snowfall totals...possibly 3-4" differences across the county I would guess is likely.  NW Chicago zones are probably good for 2-4" down to 1-2" at best in the city itself. 

 

Okay specific calls....

ORD...1.8

MKE...2.9

MSN...6.3

DBQ...8.2

DVN...6.3

MLI...4.2

CID...8.2

ALO...7.4

IOW...8.2

OTM...8.2

BRL...3.9

IRK...4.9

De Kalb...3.2

Galesburg...2.2

DSM...4.7

LSE...5.1

 

Okay that's all I have right now off the top of my head with best guesses at this point.

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This is a very tricky forecast for DVN's Eastern and Southern zones as the snowfall will cut off very sharply in those areas... tremendous warmth just to our S waiting to be advected NE into these areas and concerns about models always underdoing WAA.  Ogle, Lee, Henry, Henderson, Warren, and maybe Knox counties are going to have some tremendous variances on snowfall totals...possibly 3-4" differences across the county I would guess is likely.  NW Chicago zones are probably good for 2-4" down to 1-2" at best in the city itself. 

 

Okay specific calls....

ORD...1.8

MKE...2.9

MSN...6.3

DBQ...8.2

DVN...6.3

MLI...4.2

CID...8.2

ALO...7.4

IOW...8.2

OTM...8.2

BRL...3.9

IRK...4.9

De Kalb...3.2

Galesburg...2.2

DSM...4.7

LSE...5.1

 

Okay that's all I have right now off the top of my head with best guesses at this point.

Wow 5 inches in La crosse..

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This is a very tricky forecast for DVN's Eastern and Southern zones as the snowfall will cut off very sharply in those areas... tremendous warmth just to our S waiting to be advected NE into these areas and concerns about models always underdoing WAA.  Ogle, Lee, Henry, Henderson, Warren, and maybe Knox counties are going to have some tremendous variances on snowfall totals...possibly 3-4" differences across the county I would guess is likely.  NW Chicago zones are probably good for 2-4" down to 1-2" at best in the city itself. 

 

Okay specific calls....

ORD...1.8

MKE...2.9

MSN...6.3

DBQ...8.2

DVN...6.3

MLI...4.2

CID...8.2

ALO...7.4

IOW...8.2

OTM...8.2

BRL...3.9

IRK...4.9

De Kalb...3.2

Galesburg...2.2

DSM...4.7

LSE...5.1

 

Okay that's all I have right now off the top of my head with best guesses at this point.

 

The ol' dual-pol is gonna be getting a big workout tomorrow night lol.

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Environment Canada just issued the 3:30 pm forecast package and it's calling for periods of freezing rain or ice pellets tomorrow night for Toronto. No mention of amounts, but there are amounts for rain, ice pellets or snow for other areas of the province. I guess they want to evaluate another model cycle tonight before putting in freezing rain amounts in the public forecast.

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So the 12z EURO text shows .59 to fall at ORD with surface temps around freezing and 850 temps at or below zero. Should any stock be put into that?

Euro has a huge dryslot wrapping into northeast Illinois from 6z to 12z Sunday. Either it's incorrect with its moisture fields or it's squeezing out way too much precipitation under the dry slot. 

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DTX

 

SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY  
 
WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO  
SUNDAY MORNING FOR MUCH OF THE AREA...MINUS WAYNE/LENAWEE/MONROE  
COUNTIES WHERE A FLOOD WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT.  
 
MAIN EMPHASIS IN LONG TERM FORECAST REMAINS THE SIGNIFICANT WINTER  
STORM THAT IS EXPECTED TO LIFT THROUGH THE CENTRAL/EASTERN GREAT  
LAKES FROM SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. MODELS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE A  
SIGNIFICANT STRIPE OF HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL OCCUR ALONG A  
NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRAPED ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY.  
 
FORCING WILL INCREASE QUICKLY ALONG THIS FRONT AS A STRONG UPPER  
LEVEL SHORTWAVE EJECTS FROM NORTHERN MEXICO AS IT ROUNDS THE BASE OF  
THE MAIN WESTERN CONUS UPPER TROUGH AND EVENTUALLY PHASES WILL A  
NORTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE DROPPING OUT OF THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES OF  
CANADA. SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL INCREASE IN ADVANCE OF THE SURFACE  
LOW PRESSURE AND OVERRIDE THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF A COLD AIRMASS IN  
PLACE OVER THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES...FORCING THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY  
SLOWLY NORTHWARD WITH TIME LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY.  
 
WHILE THE TEMPERATURE PROFILES FORECAST BY THE MODELS CONTINUE TO  
VARY TO SOME DEGREE...IT APPEARS INCREASINGLY LIKELY THAT ENOUGH  
COLD AIR WILL REMAIN IN PLACE IN THE LOW LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE TO  
PRODUCE A FAVORABLE SETUP FOR SIGNIFICANT ICING OVER PARTS OF THE  
CWA AS WARMER AIR OVERRIDES THIS COLDER DOME OF AIR IN PLACE OVER  
THE AREA. BOUNDARY LAYER CONDITIONS WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE  
OUTCOME OF THIS STORM WITH AREAS FROM THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE  
IRISH HILLS ON NORTH THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA SEEING A  
BETTER SHOT AT SIGNIFICANT FREEZING RAIN
AS TEMPERATURES REMAIN  
CLOSER TO 30 DEGREES LATE SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. IF THE  
TEMPERATURES AT THE SURFACE DO HOLD AT/AROUND 30F...A SIGNIFICANT ICE  
STORM COULD CERTAINLY UNFOLD FROM BETWEEN M 59 AND I 69 ON INTO THE  
THUMB
AS AROUND AN INCH OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM LATE ON  
THE DAY SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT.  
 
AS THIS MAIN SHIELD OF PRECIPITATION LIFTS INTO THE REGION ON  
SATURDAY...EXPECT A MIXTURE OF SNOW/SLEET/FREEZING RAIN TO CHANGE  
OVER TO FREEZING RAIN OVER THE WATCH AREA. RAIN WILL MOST LIKELY BE  
THE PRIMARY PRECIPITATION TYPE FURTHER SOUTH FROM AROUND DETROIT  
SOUTH/SOUTHWEST TO THE OHIO STATE LINE...WITH ANY FREEZING RAIN MORE  
SPOTTY IN NATURE AS MANY AREAS HOLD IN THE 32-35F RANGE SATURDAY AND  
SATURDAY EVENING AND THEN WARM FROM THERE LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO  
SUNDAY MORNING AS THE LOW LIFTS INTO THE REGION AND THE WARM SECTOR  
CLIPS THE FAR SOUTHERN CWA EARLY SUNDAY.  
 
THE FINAL PHASE OF THIS STORM WILL COME SUNDAY MORNING AS THE UPPER  
LEVEL SUPPORTS SHIFTS THROUGH THE REGION AND BRINGS AT LEAST A  
GLANCING BLOW OF DEFORMATION FORCING THROUGH THE AREA. IT APPEARS  
THAT PARTS OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY MAY RECEIVE SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW  
WITH THIS FINAL AREA OF PRECIPITATION WITH A LIGHTER MIXTURE OF SNOW  
AND FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLE FROM THE GENESEE VALLEY NORTHEAST INTO  
THE THUMB BEFORE PRECIPITATION TAPERS OFF DURING THE AFTERNOON. 

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