Northern Ohio Obs/Discussion Part 2

[NEOH]

Picked up close to 2" from the squalls last night. There were just some remaining snow piles around so good have the ground white again. Seems like we can't get a break from the WSW flow LES events. PA/WNY have cleaned up the past couple of years. Might actually start to see some ice form on the western basin soon with temps dropping into the teens. So much for the record breaking lake temps... we've lost a lot that quickly. 

[TheClimateChanger]

10 minutes ago, NEOH said:

Picked up close to 2" from the squalls last night. There were just some remaining snow piles around so good have the ground white again. Seems like we can't get a break from the WSW flow LES events. PA/WNY have cleaned up the past couple of years. Might actually start to see some ice form on the western basin soon with temps dropping into the teens. So much for the record breaking lake temps... we've lost a lot that quickly. 

Surprised there was less talk of this. CLE picked up 3.8" yesterday, which appears to be the third snowiest calendar day dating back to February 13, 2022 - a period of about 2 years and 10 months.

[LakeEffectOH]

Had about 2" in Chesterland, but when I arrived at work, in Solon, I saw at least 6" on the picnic tables!

[NEOH]

1 hour ago, LakeEffectOH said:

Had about 2" in Chesterland, but when I arrived at work, in Solon, I saw at least 6" on the picnic tables!

Wow. There were some very localized jackpot zones with the squalls. 

[OHweather]

On 12/12/2024 at 10:58 AM, TheClimateChanger said:

Surprised there was less talk of this. CLE picked up 3.8" yesterday, which appears to be the third snowiest calendar day dating back to February 13, 2022 - a period of about 2 years and 10 months.

The idea of snow showers/squalls with the Arctic front was advertised decently well, but the localized amounts were predicted quite poorly, and the lack of a snow squall warning as that crap came in (which we can now issue without the burden of everyone’s wireless emergency alerts blowing up) probably didn’t help for anyone out and about. 

Luckily it didn’t happen 3-4 hours earlier. As it was, this “sub advisory” event in the Cleveland metro (between the squalls last evening and black ice this morning) was probably more impactful than about half of all winter weather advisory events actually are and was definitely way more impactful than the first LES Warning for Cuyahoga last week, and was more impactful than the LES warning for the inland portion of Ashtabula today. 

[OHweather]

Little clipper may graze us on Friday (though it seems like the swath of snow is targeting areas west/southwest of the Cleveland area the most), with some lake effect/enhanced snow Friday evening/night as the flow comes around to the north, with lingering lake effect in a north-northwest flow into the weekend. This doesn't look like a huge set-up, but probably will yield at least some light accumulations in areas impacted by the clipper and/or anything off the lake. 

[NEOH]

2 hours ago, OHweather said:

Little clipper may graze us on Friday (though it seems like the swath of snow is targeting areas west/southwest of the Cleveland area the most), with some lake effect/enhanced snow Friday evening/night as the flow comes around to the north, with lingering lake effect in a north-northwest flow into the weekend. This doesn't look like a huge set-up, but probably will yield at least some light accumulations in areas impacted by the clipper and/or anything off the lake. 

At least we'll have a few wintry days prior to the warm up next week. Some locations may be able to pull off a white Christmas but it will be melting.