blue60007 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 0.2" of virga here so far. Hoping to get into some virga+ soon. Fist flakes starting to fly here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoof Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Usually a good sign when you get under an spc mesoscale discussion for heavy snow and high ratios, hope it works out for you guys, would hate to see you get a 10:1 or something ratio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Hot off the press from the SREF prediction center lol........speaking of which....21Z is rolling.....drum rollllllllll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 648 PM CST MON JAN 5 2015 0645 PM SNOW 3 S POLK CITY 41.74N 93.72W 01/05/2015 E6.8 INCH POLK IA OFFICIAL NWS OBS AT NWS OFFICE IN JOHNSTON trying to find a liquid obs to go with that official report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 oh yeah.....and flakes started flying here about 5 minutes ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 trying to find a liquid obs to go with that official report .37 in 5.8" as of 00z, so about 16:1, another inch since then may have raised ratio some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 highest so far in the DVN CWA, just SW of Iowa City 0627 PM SNOW N WELLMAN 41.47N 91.84W 01/05/2015 M4.0 INCH WASHINGTON IA TRAINED SPOTTER TOTAL SO FAR SINCE 115PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 .37 in 5.8" as of 00z, so about 16:1, another inch since then may have raised ratio some. not great....but certainly not horrible.... most of the snow falling here is very fine....but there are some decent flakes mixing in that I see flying by the street lamp which I wasn't expecting at this stage of the game per upstream obs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 1.4" here. Much of that fell in the last 45mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Pretty skimpy up here so far...enough to cause travel headaches... was 3F last time i checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 flakes flying here now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 1.4" here. Much of that fell in the last 45mins. Very nice. Keep the reports coming. Pulling for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 lol........speaking of which....21Z is rolling.....drum rollllllllll Still not backing down....going down with the ship one way or another apparently..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geddyweather Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 May be in a decent spot here, right on the North/Northeast edge of that MD. Thinking 3-5 inches for me tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 1.4" here. Much of that fell in the last 45mins. Rock on. Keep it going. Finally got some flakes here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortex Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Snow started here about 15 minutes ago. Ground covered already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 rocking the ship back and forth all in one sentence AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 713 PM CST MON JAN 5 2015 UPDATE ISSUED AT 710 PM CST MON JAN 5 2015 TRENDS OF LOW LEVEL WARM ADVECTION AND TRACK OF CLIPPER SYSTEM SUGGEST HIGHEST SNOW ACCUM AXIS MAY NEED TO BE SHIFTED A BIT FURTHER SOUTHWEST TO CORRIDOR ROUGHLY TIER OR TWO OF COUNTIES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF QUAD CITIES. CONCERNS THAT AMOUNTS MAY BE A BIT HIGH IN SOME AREAS FROM QUAD CITIES NORTHEAST BUT RAP MODEL TIME HEIGH SECTIONS SUGGEST SHOULD SEE BETTER DENDRITES NEXT FEW HOURS WITH BETTER ALIGNMENT OF FORCING AND DGZ... AND RADAR MAY BE BEARING THAT OUT WITH SOME INCREASE IN RETURNS NEAR/E OF CID. THUS... NO CHANGES BEING MADE AT THIS POINT BUT CONTINUING TO ASSESS/MONITOR TRENDS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Nice area of 25-30bz between RFD-RPJ along I-39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Pouring pixies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 fwiw......21Z sref.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 -SN started here. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 -SN here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maumee Bay Turf Center Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 May be in a decent spot here, right on the North/Northeast edge of that MD. Thinking 3-5 inches for me tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maumee Bay Turf Center Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Geddy are you by Archbold? Looks like us guys in Toledo may miss out on anything meaningful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geddyweather Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Geddy are you by Archbold? Looks like us guys in Toledo may miss out on anything meaningful. No, further south closer to Lima. Kind of going in limbo between 2-4 or 3-5 tonight. Just depends on how it tracks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Solid SN. Flake size slightly better. Hate pixie dust when it comes to accumulation, but it looks awesome sparkling on the ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 everything recoated....high end -SN as vis is dropping.... still small plates mixing in with the pixie dust....better than expected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakingrufus Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 -SN here in Oakbrook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Nothing here yet in Hyde Park, but I expect to see something soon with all of these obs just to my west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 zzzzzz EDIT: the most micro dust i've ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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