Chicago WX Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Photo from my Mom in Kankakee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Pull out the shop vac Lol, a leaf blower might do the trick. Starting snowing here again. Tally not final yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Indianapolis Power and Light Co. is reporting 24,000 people without power. I am worried to hear that. Of course with the wind picking up and the wet heavy initial snow this could happen. Yet I remember seeing NWS hazard potential that power outages were not to be a major expectation with this system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Impressive, Fergus should do well. Temps have been hovering around 27-28F. 2cm down here. Same 1.5cm here. Plus the 2.5cm from last night brings my total to 4cm and its steadily falling. Temperature holds steady at -0.9C. EC forecasting -25C tom night at YYZ with a windchill of -36. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Photo from my Mom in Kankakee. Jan 5 mom snow.jpg pound towne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Some video I took on my phone. I'll try to get something better later, alas... That is awesome! We are getting BURIED dude!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Really cranking around SBN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Welp, everybody bailed out early at the party I was at so now I'm free to enjoy this one. Driving is pretty nightmarish as expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 sunday afternoon parties are always lame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Same 1.5cm here. Plus the 2.5cm from last night brings my total to 4cm and its steadily falling. Temperature holds steady at -0.9C. EC forecasting -25C tom night at YYZ with a windchill of -36. Wow, the EC forecast is incredible. Wonder why KW is in a freezing rain warning if they're forecasting 25cm of snow and 60-70kmh wind gusts through tomorrow. I think heavy snow is more of an issue than a couple hours of rain/snow mix. Winter storm warning would be more appropriate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Really wondering why there isn't a blizzard warning. Nearly meeting criteria here - winds aren't quite 35 mph - and keeping it up for 3 hours seems doable). IND AFD WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH POSSIBLE THANKS TO A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT. THIS SHOULD CREATE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...ESPECIALLY ACROSS AREAS WHERE SNOW IS NOT AS WET AS IT IS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. THE BLOWING SNOW MAY CREATE NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS /ESPECIALLY NORTHWEST/ THIS EVENING...BUT DO NOT BELIEVE IT WILL LAST LONG ENOUGH OR GET DOWN TO 1/4SM LONG ENOUGH FOR A BLIZZARD WARNING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHM Supercell Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Wow, the EC forecast is incredible. Wonder why KW is in a freezing rain warning if they're forecasting 25cm of snow and 60-70kmh wind gusts through tomorrow. I think heavy snow is more of an issue than a couple hours of rain/snow mix. Winter storm warning would be more appropriate? They will go Snow Squall Warning for tomorrow...snow squall potential is the reason they have 25cm forecast. 10cm maybe 15cm seems probably for your area with the synoptic snow. Still though, freezing rain warning seems odd...would think they would go winter storm warning for all areas to account for freezing rain + snow potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardMafia Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Wind really starting to pickup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardMafia Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 IND AFD WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH POSSIBLE THANKS TO A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT. THIS SHOULD CREATE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...ESPECIALLY ACROSS AREAS WHERE SNOW IS NOT AS WET AS IT IS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. THE BLOWING SNOW MAY CREATE NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS /ESPECIALLY NORTHWEST/ THIS EVENING...BUT DO NOT BELIEVE IT WILL LAST LONG ENOUGH OR GET DOWN TO 1/4SM LONG ENOUGH FOR A BLIZZARD WARNING. Close but no cigar on the blizzard warning this time.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Wow, the EC forecast is incredible. Wonder why KW is in a freezing rain warning if they're forecasting 25cm of snow and 60-70kmh wind gusts through tomorrow. I think heavy snow is more of an issue than a couple hours of rain/snow mix. Winter storm warning would be more appropriate? Well maybe they're trying to play it safe since we just went through the worst ice storm in decades. They probably don't want to take the risk and issued the freezing rain warning as a safety reason to keep the public safe. WSW would have been more appropriate though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Spotter report of 10.0" at Valpo at 20z. I can't confirm it, but I have no reason to be skeptical of it either. Looks like this will be a Top 10 storm for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 That is awesome! We are getting BURIED dude!!!! Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExplosiveLow Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Located 9 miles due West of Fort Wayne off 14. Currently sitting at 8 inches. 31.4 degrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 For those that were wondering about the COD website issues... College of Dupage Meteorology - NEXLAB We are currently experiencing problems with our product generation site-wide due mainly to power outages and inclement weather on campus. Please bare with us as we attempt to correct these issues. We apologize for the inconvenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Would agree that southwestern ON needs a blizzard warning, events during the very brief warm sector passage will be vastly overshadoweed by massive lake effect squall bands and dangerous wind chills arriving about 10 seconds after frontal passage. Looks to me as though the warm sector is going to have trouble consolidating and will largely shoot over top of the surface cold air, probably leading to thunder-sleet in the GTA rather than freezing rain. Temp could whip up to 5-6 C for one hour then plunge, if the warm air does manage to mix down. Anyway, it won't be much of a factor, just adding to the road slickness from the thaw-freeze cycle. Expect widespread TS+ IN/MI this evening ... server overload alert. BUF poster, welcome to the madhouse, south towns will be oblaterated. (been there, done that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjwise Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0006 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0249 PM CST SUN JAN 05 2014 AREAS AFFECTED...SCNTRL THROUGH ECNTRL IL...CNTRL AND NRN IND...NWRN OH AND SRN LOWER MI CONCERNING...HEAVY SNOW VALID 052049Z - 060045Z SUMMARY...BANDS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW WILL DEVELOP NEWD THROUGH SCNTRL AND ECNTRL IL...CNTRL AND NRN IND...NWRN OH AND SRN LOWER MI INTO EARLY EVENING. SNOWFALL RATES MAY LOCALLY EXCEED 1 INCH PER HOUR WITHIN THE HEAVIER SNOW BANDS. DISCUSSION...THIS AFTERNOON BANDS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW PERSIST FROM SRN AND ECNTRL IL NEWD THROUGH NRN IND AND SRN LOWER MI. IT APPEARS THAT SOME DRYER AIR HAS BEEN ENTRAINED INTO CNTRL IND BETWEEN THE WARM ADVECTION RAIN BAND AND THE ZONE OF HEAVIER SNOW TO THE WEST WHICH IS RESULTING IN A TEMPORARY REDUCTION IN SNOWFALL RATES ACROSS CNTRL IND. HOWEVER...AGEOSTROPHIC FORCING WITHIN EXIT REGION OF AN UPPER JET ROTATING THROUGH BASE OF SYNOPTIC TROUGH WILL SUPPORT DEEPENING OF SFC LOW AS IT DEVELOPS NEWD THROUGH IND AND OH ALONG A QUASI-STATIONRY FRONT WHERE SURFACE OBSERVATIONS CURRENTLY SHOW THE STRONGEST PRESSURE FALLS. FRONTOGENETIC FORCING AND DEEP ASCENT SHOULD REMAIN AUGMENTED ALONG BAROCLINIC ZONE NORTH AND WEST OF THE MIGRATORY LOW AND CONTINUE TO PROMOTE NEWD DEVELOPMENT OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW BANDS INTO THE EARLY EVENING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Well maybe they're trying to play it safe since we just went through the worst ice storm in decades. They probably don't want to take the risk and issued the freezing rain warning as a safety reason to keep the public safe. WSW would have been more appropriate though. Personally, I don't think blanket Freezing Rain Warnings was the right call. In light of the recent ice storm, this could get people a little over-worried about the potential. Even saw a news headlines (the Sun, of course) that said "OH NO NOT AGAIN: Environment Canada issued a freezing rain warning for Toronto for overnight Sunday and early Monday morning." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indystorm Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I'll confirm that heavy snow and white out conditions here in Michiana, Geos. Can barely see across the street at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanDe680 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Nice to see that the observer at ORD made it in with his tape measure today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue60007 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 IND AFD WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH POSSIBLE THANKS TO A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT. THIS SHOULD CREATE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...ESPECIALLY ACROSS AREAS WHERE SNOW IS NOT AS WET AS IT IS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. THE BLOWING SNOW MAY CREATE NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS /ESPECIALLY NORTHWEST/ THIS EVENING...BUT DO NOT BELIEVE IT WILL LAST LONG ENOUGH OR GET DOWN TO 1/4SM LONG ENOUGH FOR A BLIZZARD WARNING. Yeah, guess so. Visibility back up to 1/2 mi or so here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 "Please bare with us as we attempt to correct these issues. We apologize for the inconvenience." In this weather, I would prefer to bear with you, if that's okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargers09 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Snow has increased here in intensity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 "Please bare with us as we attempt to correct these issues. We apologize for the inconvenience." In this weather, I would prefer to bear with you, if that's okay. lol GREAT CALL EARLY ON ROGER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExplosiveLow Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 9 miles west of Fort Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardMafia Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Radar filling back in nicely across IN.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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