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Northern Ohio Obs/Discussion Part 2


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The NWS here in Summit just issued a Hazardous Outlook.

 

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
158 PM EST Sat Jan 22 2022

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158 PM EST Sat Jan 22 2022

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central Ohio, northeast
Ohio, northwest Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

A clipper system will bring widespread light snow for northern Ohio
into northwest Pennsylvania late tonight into Sunday. 1 to 3 inches
of snowfall is possible for much of the area.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday.

A clipper system will bring widespread light snow for northern Ohio
into northwest Pennsylvania through Sunday evening. 1 to 3 inches of
snowfall is possible for much of the area.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

$$

 

My area is forecast 1-3 Sunday and 1-3 Monday. So here's looking at 2-6 inches by Monday night!

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Pretty sure we could just expand the advisory for Sunday to the entire CWA at this point...this is coming in more amped / north and the 0z hi-res models like 3-5" (locally a bit more with some LES) for all of northern OH now. Should be a nice fluff factor along with a brief period of moderate to heavy rates.

Early stuff looks a bit south with Monday's clipper, perhaps due to Sunday's being a little stronger in front of it. The NAM has some LES behind the Monday clipper and a bit more LES Tuesday night into Wednesday, assuming there's enough moisture flux through the ice on the lake by that point. This could be trending to quite a snowy few days for northern OH into NW PA! 

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7 minutes ago, OHweather said:

Got 4.5-5” of fluffy snow in Reminderville. The hills of the secondary Snowbelt in southern Cuyahoga, northern Medina and northwestern Summit got 6-8”. Another event that came in on the high side in what has quickly become a very snowy stretch for our area. 

What are your thoughts for Northern Ohio for this next clipper??

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1 hour ago, Frog Town said:

What are your thoughts for Northern Ohio for this next clipper??

Enough lift for a quick shot of moderate snow. I like 1-3" for most of northern and central OH, though feel 1-2" is more common than 3" since it's quick moving and the lift is noticeably weaker than today's system. However, it'll briefly snow pretty decent from west to east late morning into the afternoon. 

Could be a freezing drizzle concern Monday evening across Ohio as the low-levels look moist ahead of a cold front but the mid-levels will be dry. 

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Radar looks good for several hours of steady light to moderate snow across all of northern OH with this clipper today. I feel a little more optimistic, feel like 2-3" amounts will be more common than 1" amounts. I don't think it'll snow hard enough to get too much more but it's looking like a solid little event. 

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11 minutes ago, Frog Town said:

Agree! 80-90 seems to be the jackpot for this one.  Amazing how these don't really show their hands until the last minute.  

What kind of quality is the snow out there? Findlay and Toledo are reporting 1/2 to 3/4 mile visibility which is pretty decent, are the flakes the bigger ones that can stack up quicker? 

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10 minutes ago, OHweather said:

What kind of quality is the snow out there? Findlay and Toledo are reporting 1/2 to 3/4 mile visibility which is pretty decent, are the flakes the bigger ones that can stack up quicker? 

Exactly as you described.  Returns are lining up right along 80-90 from Chicago to Cleveland...

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10 minutes ago, OHweather said:

Solid light snow (but with smallish flakes) here right now too, started in the last half hour or so. If it does this until 7 or 8 PM and we grind out 2 or 3" I'd take it. Just adding to the pack at this point. 

Same here.  Is the overnight 1-3 fc coming from lake effect?

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28 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

Same here.  Is the overnight 1-3 fc coming from lake effect?

It is yes. It's not a great set-up, but there should be an uptick for several hours late tonight into early tomorrow and there will likely be some light accumulations in the Cleveland area and Snowbelt. Tomorrow night into Wednesday morning is actually a pretty good looking set-up for the primary snowbelt with a W or WNW flow and I think it'd easily be an advisory to warning event for Lake and northern Geauga on east, but we'll see if there's sufficient moisture flux through the increasing ice on the lake for that. There will be some LES either way, but I'm not sure if the ice will keep it in check. Seems like a pretty good set-up with a decently high inversion, light and well-aligned flow, and a good amount of moisture from Lake Michigan.

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2 hours ago, OHweather said:

Solid light snow (but with smallish flakes) here right now too, started in the last half hour or so. If it does this until 7 or 8 PM and we grind out 2 or 3" I'd take it. Just adding to the pack at this point. 

Back and forth from light to moderate snow but the heavier returns are moving in. Just over an inch so far. This snow seems much more dense than yesterday. Wonder if the snow will last until the evening as the back edge looks to be in western ohio. 

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It does seem the snow moved through on the quick side...we may or may not have gotten to 2" here (I haven't measured and probably won't today), though it's close. Already some light freezing rain / mist being reported in north-central and northwest OH, hoping the snow and treatment for it that we got today prevents issues with that as it's quite cold with temps in the mid 20s.

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58 minutes ago, OHweather said:

It does seem the snow moved through on the quick side...we may or may not have gotten to 2" here (I haven't measured and probably won't today), though it's close. Already some light freezing rain / mist being reported in north-central and northwest OH, hoping the snow and treatment for it that we got today prevents issues with that as it's quite cold with temps in the mid 20s.

Definitely faster than modeled. Looks like the last batch is forming out west and moving east. Almost a convective nature to the snow right now. It dumps large flakes under some of these returns. 

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