KokomoWX Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Beautiful. Any idea where you're at for a season to date total? No idea on a total. I was going to go back through the local cooperative reports to get a season total later if I felt ambitious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Another band just passed through putting my storm total at 4.5". Forecast was for "up to an inch". Kind of ironic that areas at the far SE edge of this got some of the best snows. Never would have guessed I'd get more than both ORD and DTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbotc Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 lol, for real. What a great surprise for them. Snow decently here right now, but doesn't look like it'll last long. I do feel bad for CMI though...stuck in the middle all night with nothing to show for it. We got rain and a small glazing of ice. Hopefully we cash in on Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Congrats to those in the snowband in IN/OH! You may not have the deepest snow in the area but you probably have the most scenic. Nice pics kokomo. My storm total here was 0.78" liquid, 3.8" snow with a foot of ridiculously dense snowpack. It even has that bumpy, icy "look" to it from all the rain. The lowest snow depth you will find in MI right now is probably about 5-6" in extreme southern Monroe county at the state line, and even that has a TON of water in it. White Lake reports a depth of 18", with 12" here and DTW, 13" in ARB, 9" in FNT but 17" at MBS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Another band just passed through putting my storm total at 4.5". Forecast was for "up to an inch". Kind of ironic that areas at the far SE edge of this got some of the best snows. Never would have guessed I'd get more than both ORD and DTW. febsnow2.JPG febsnow3.JPG febsnow4.jpg febsnow5.jpg Gorgeous. We literally posted at the same time and your pics confirmed my statement. My snow is much deeper than yours but not nearly as scenic this morning. We havent had a snowfall that thickly caked to trees since march 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 I'm going to call a final storm total of about ~5" here. Didn't take an official mesurement. That's just an estimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Another band just passed through putting my storm total at 4.5". Forecast was for "up to an inch". Kind of ironic that areas at the far SE edge of this got some of the best snows. Never would have guessed I'd get more than both ORD and DTW. febsnow2.JPG febsnow3.JPG febsnow4.jpg febsnow5.jpg Lovely. Not the most efficient accumulations but it's hard to beat 10:1 snow in terms of beautiful scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 I'm going to call a final storm total of about ~5" here. Didn't take an official mesurement. That's just an estimate. Thats actually a very good estimate based on my calculations. My storm total was 3.8" and the current depth of that is 1.8" (I left a spot cleared just to see how much the rain factored into the compaction, since it would be too hard to do so with the general snowpack). The Grosse Pointe "spotter" reported 2.5" of snow, and we all know that means that is what is on the board this morning, since its a block of ice (normally said spotter relies on wind driven snow to make sure he finds the absolute lowest spot possible, but there was no wind last night). So you figure....3.8" compacts to 1.8"...5" should compact to 2.5". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Gorgeous. We literally posted at the same time and your pics confirmed my statement. My snow is much deeper than yours but not nearly as scenic this morning. We havent had a snowfall that thickly caked to trees since march 2011. Yeah. The snow depth here is still a respectable 7-8" though, so not bad at all. However, there was 6" on the ground yesterday morning. Then we melted 3" to add another 4.5". I had close to an inch of rain yesterday and let me tell you it was UGLY yesterday evening. Glad to see it all coated again. Lots of chances this week to watch this depth grow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chances14 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 ended up with 6" in mby, which was pretty much what was forecasted. Managed to avoid any mixing looks like a winter wonderland outside with all the snow stuck to the trees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Congrats to those in the snowband in IN/OH! You may not have the deepest snow in the area but you probably have the most scenic. Nice pics kokomo. My storm total here was 0.78" liquid, 3.8" snow with a foot of ridiculously dense snowpack. It even has that bumpy, icy "look" to it from all the rain. The lowest snow depth you will find in MI right now is probably about 5-6" in extreme southern Monroe county at the state line, and even that has a TON of water in it. White Lake reports a depth of 18", with 12" here and DTW, 13" in ARB, 9" in FNT but 17" at MBS. Funny that MBS has 17" of snowdepth yet they only got 15" or so total in all of January. I guess because they escaped most of the thaws we've had since December and added on with this storm. I just went outside and the sidewalks in my neighborhood are a death trap. Like a half inch to and inch depending on where you stand of solid ice, and the snowpack is as hard and deep as I've ever seen it. If you slipped on the ice you could really hurt yourself on one of those snowbanks. They're like boulders piled up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Funny that MBS has 17" of snowdepth yet they only got 15" or so total in all of January. I guess because they escaped most of the thaws we've had since December and added on with this storm. I just went outside and the sidewalks in my neighborhood are a death trap. Like a half inch to and inch depending on where you stand of solid ice, and the snowpack is as hard and deep as I've ever seen it. If you slipped on the ice you could really hurt yourself on one of those snowbanks. They're like boulders piled up. Exact same thing here. Its terrible! No more rain only snow please . And yes...Saginaw never lost their snowpack in December for one thing...they went down to 8" while we briefly went down to a T. So they had an 8" glacier base to begin with before Januarys snows grazed them (with still above normal snow, just not a record like FNT and DTW). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Yeah. The snow depth here is still a respectable 7-8" though, so not bad at all. However, there was 6" on the ground yesterday morning. Then we melted 3" to add another 4.5". I had close to an inch of rain yesterday and let me tell you it was UGLY yesterday evening. Glad to see it all coated again. Lots of chances this week to watch this depth grow! snowdepth.png Yeah. The snow depth here is still a respectable 7-8" though, so not bad at all. However, there was 6" on the ground yesterday morning. Then we melted 3" to add another 4.5". I had close to an inch of rain yesterday and let me tell you it was UGLY yesterday evening. Glad to see it all coated again. Lots of chances this week to watch this depth grow! snowdepth.png Thats not as bad as I thought! We started yesterday at 10", got 3.8" of snow and only increased to 12" by this morning. Core sample is 2.4"! Snow depth has never been a more meaningless stat then this winter here though. Never seen the drifting like it is, you just have to pick a number and go with it. Of course, no more of that as we are capped off with a deep pack of white frozen cement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=dtx&storyid=100100&source=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 As michsnowfreak posted, this map seems pretty accurate for DTX (with the exception of the outright low-balled Grosse Pointe Farms report). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Ended up with about 5.5" here. 1.5" before the changeover, another 4" last night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 As michsnowfreak posted, this map seems pretty accurate for DTX (with the exception of the outright low-balled Grosse Pointe Farms report). They do it everytime. I dont even see what the point is. Its actually almost on purpose it seems. Then every season snowmap DTX makes has that completely untrue hole right around Detroit city as they use the GPF spotter numbers. I checked their Jan report and even THEY came in with 23.1", which includes a M report on a day with snowfall and a couple days where fluffy high ratio snow resulted in liquid of 0.02" or something with snowfall of a T. Thats how you KNOW it was a historic month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Ended up with about 5.5" here. 1.5" before the changeover, another 4" last night WOW that close to here had that much snow post rain? Crazy! here just 0.6 or our 3.8" was last night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 They do it everytime. I dont even see what the point is. Its actually almost on purpose it seems. Then every season snowmap DTX makes has that completely untrue hole right around Detroit city as they use the GPF spotter numbers. I checked their Jan report and even THEY came in with 23.1", which includes a M report on a day with snowfall and a couple days where fluffy high ratio snow resulted in liquid of 0.02" or something with snowfall of a T. Thats how you KNOW it was a historic month I know you're probably just a little tiffed that I've been dropping the ball on measuring these snows and sending in my numbers (to counter that spotter in GPF). But yeah, that GPF spotter IS sort of ridiculous (with their numbers). I'll try to do better next season (or next storm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukrocks Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Snow is falling at a good clip here in Louisville. Already have a good dusting on the ground. NWS expects the snow to only pick up more as the night goes on. Could see 1-2 inch an hour rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Snow is falling at a good clip here in Louisville. Already have a good dusting on the ground. NWS expects the snow to only pick up more as the night goes on. Could see 1-2 inch an hour rates. Good luck. Looks like a pretty good hit down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Looks like 4" forecasted for the downtown area of Louisville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierwx Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Radar looks like a fire hose down south of the Ohio. I think it's going to be an epic dumping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukrocks Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 A little bit of a lull in the precip here but I see the main event is about to start. Should be a fun night of heavy snow while watching the Super Bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukrocks Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Lull is over, the snow has began to fall again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Look back to the 1/30/14 event, that snow squall with the arctic front reminds me of the derecho T'Storms we see in the summer time. It's not often you see squalls of snow travel with that intensity/coverage as long as this one did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukrocks Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Snow is really ripping now. Have well over an inch on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Snow is really ripping now. Have well over an inch on the ground. Awesome. How much are you thinking for your area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukrocks Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Awesome. How much are you thinking for your area? If I had to make a reasonable estimate, I'd say 4-6 inches is a good bet. That'd be plenty to make me happy and give me 18 inches on the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 If I had to make a reasonable estimate, I'd say 4-6 inches is a good bet. That'd be plenty to make me happy and give me 18 inches on the season. Very nice. Hope it overachieves for you. Enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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