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February 8-10 Snow Event


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Awesome. I'm heading up to IKK tomorrow morning. My parent's deep winter pack should look nice and refreshed. 

 

 

I thought it was going to miss us to the north, when I looked at the radar earlier. Guess not. I'll take it. :D

Safe travels up here, the roads are in bad shape.

Snow depth is around 13" here.

Think were are close to 45" on the year so far.

This has been one of the better winters I can remember with the sustained cold and snow.

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Safe travels up here, the roads are in bad shape.

Snow depth is around 13" here.

Think were are close to 45" on the year so far.

This has been one of the better winters I can remember with the sustained cold and snow.

 

Will do and thanks. Hopefully 24 and 45/52 (my IL routes that I take) are decent. Looks like more snow overnight/tomorrow morning too.

 

And yes...one of the best winters in many a year, for a lot of us. Good times.

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4.3 inches...very light snow still falling ... looks like glitter falling in indirect lighting

 

Radar returns via DVN leads me to believe that another 24+ hour event is likely now for MBY...started having some doubts....but flakes should remaining flying throughout the evening

 

Quite impressive gradient south to north.

 

Congrats.

 

The overnight stuff should graze/miss MBY

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Quite impressive gradient south to north.

 

Congrats.

 

The overnight stuff should graze/miss MBY

 

Thanks!

 

That lunchtime burst was incredible down here...and the "incredible" rates lasted for a solid 25-30 minutes or so...that certainly helped.

 

Not expecting much for overnight here as well...just hoping to keep flakes flying through morning to tally another 24-hr event...

 

then again, these 30:1 ratio plates can stack pretty easily so who knows.

 

Any kind of gusts over the next 48 hours are gonna send this 4 to 5 inches of fluff flying in hyper-drive...and most likely shatter the breadth of the fresh 5 inches down to an inch or so....

 

But yeah, as you said...chalk up another impressive event for LOT

 

cheers

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update from Rick...

 

 

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
900 PM CST SAT FEB 8 2014

.DISCUSSION...
855 PM CST

EVENING UPDATE...

ANOTHER STOUT MIDLEVEL WAVE/SPEED MAX EVIDENT ON W/V IMAGERY
PUNCHING INTO NORTHWEST IA THIS EVENING HAS RESULTED IN A WEST-
EAST BAND OF SNOW OUT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF IOWA. THE BEST
FORCING FOR ASCENT WITH THIS WAVE WILL BE FOCUSED INTO THE
SOUTHERN CWA OVERNIGHT...SO GIVEN RADAR TRENDS...HAVE BUMPED UP
POPS TO CATEGORICAL SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. MIDLEVEL LAPSE RATES
PER SPC/RAP MESOANALYSIS ARE ALREADY FAIRLY STEEP AT AROUND 7C/KM
AND VALUES OF AT LEAST 6.5 WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AS THE BETTER
FORCING ARRIVES. THIS WILL SUPPORT MODERATE TO POSSIBLY EVEN
BRIEFLY HEAVY SNOW RATES UNDER HEART OF THE SNOW BAND. THINKING
THAT RATIOS MAY NOT BE QUITE AS HIGH AS EARLIER TODAY BUT STILL
APPROACHING 20:1...WHICH WITH ROUGHLY 0.05 TO 0.15 QPF INDICATED
SOUTH OF I-80...IS EXPECTED TO A QUICK 1 TO 3 INCHES OF
ACCUMULATION BY EARLY SUNDAY. SUSPECT THAT THERE MAY BE SOME
NORTHWARD EXPANSION OF THE SNOW AS BROAD FORCING FOR ASCENT ON THE
NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE SHORTWAVE ARRIVES...BUT WOULDNT EXPECT
MORE THAN A DUSTING TO MAYBE UP TO A HALF INCH A BIT NORTH OF THE
INTERSTATE 80 CORRIDOR. HAVE SENT OUT AN SPS TO COVER ASSOCIATED
HAZARDS WITH ACCUMULATING SNOW OVERNIGHT FOR AFFECTED AREAS.

OUTSIDE OF THE ACCUMULATING SNOW...SOME CLEARING IN THE CLOUDS AND
LIGHT TO CALM WINDS DID ENABLE OUTLYING AREAS TO SEE A QUICK DROP
OFF IN TEMPERATURES AND FREEZING FOG FORMATION AT SITES SUCH AS
RPJ. SKIES BECOMING OVC SHOULD PUT AN END TO FOG THREAT OVERNIGHT
SO WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF THIS IN THE GRIDS. UPDATED ZFP TO BE
SENT SHORTLY.

RC

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We picked up 0.8" from this evenings round of snow, after that 0.2" burst in the morning, so 1" of fluff Saturday, and we should see a solid inch again tomorrow morning. All in all about what was expected, a beautiful sparkly refresher to a very deep winter snowpack :)

DTW picked up an inch yesterday too, "inching" closer and closer to a rare 70"+ year with lots of winter left to go.

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