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Winter 2014-15 Short Term Discussion


Chicago Storm

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Approaching 3 inches here.  It's a nice clipper, but nothing memorable.  It has been mostly very small flakes with a couple better bands thrown in that had decent flakes.  I'm expecting to finish at about 5 inches.  Some of the models (GFS/NAM) totally bombed with this system.  For a long time they had the heaviest snow in sw Iowa, but it ended up in northern Iowa.  The Des Moines are is going to get a fair amount less than earlier expected.

I'll be happy if the Hawkeys beat Illinois. Sorry, had to say it. Apologize for the OT. Enjoy the snow.

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Took forever to saturate so the snow got off to a pretty slow start.  Snow started around 2 but didn't really start sticking much until about 3:30.  Still a little under an inch at this point.  3-4" call for here still looking good, but no longer thinking there's a chance we go higher than that.  

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The data off SPC says that was a -54c dewpoint at 809mb. Just a bit dry I would say.

 

Yeah after seeing that it almost seems like a miracle it snowed at all today lol.

 

Best snow of the event so far over the last hour or so.  Flake size continues to be pretty small, but it's pouring out there pretty nicely.  DVN has been at 1/4 +SN for awhile now.

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Not sure why the Td at LAF keeps dropping - been steadily rising on my station. Flakes finally starting to fall here. Maybe an inch...

 

LAF is a pretty crappy site.

 

First flakes over here about 15-20 minutes ago. Up to a light car topping mod pixie dust currently.

 

1.0" total sounds about right.

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Not sure why the Td at LAF keeps dropping - been steadily rising on my station. Flakes finally starting to fall here. Maybe an inch...

 

 

LAF is a pretty crappy site.

 

First flakes over here about 15-20 minutes ago. Up to a light car topping mod pixie dust currently.

 

1.0" total sounds about right.

 

 

We're actually running a tad ahead of models as far as precip reaching the ground, so I'm still thinking we end up with a bit more than that.

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