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November 20-21 Early Season Snowstorm Part 2


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The 11.2" at ORD makes this the 2nd largest November snowstorm on record. In addition to that, today's daily snowfall total of 7.0" makes it the 3rd largest daily snowfall total on record for November.

Biggest November Snowstorms:

1. 12.0" - 11/25-26/1895

2. 11.2" - 11/20-21/2015

3. 9.3" - 11/6-7/1951

4. 8.6" - 11/26-27/1975

5. 6.0" - 11/27-28/1891

6. 5.8" - 11/26-27/1978

7. 5.7" - 11/26/1941

8. 4.8" - 11/15/1940

9. 4.8" - 11/17-18/1927

10. 4.7" - 11/26/1950

Biggest Daily November Snowfalls:

1. 8.0" - 11/6/1951

2. 7.5" - 11/26/1975

3. 7.0" - 11/21/2015

4. 5.8" - 11/27/1891

5. 5.7" - 11/26/1941

6. 5.0" - 11/25/1895

7. 4.8" - 11/15/1940

8. 4.7" - 11/26/1950

9. 4.4" - 11/3/1951

10. 4.3" - 11/24/2004

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About 3" on the sidewalk here just northwest of I-94 and Telegraph, 5-6" on the grass and elevated surfaces. Started out slow, but has turned out to be the best November snow I can remember locally.  It's an absolute picturesque winter wonderland out there with every tree branch caked with snow.

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Absolutely pounded for a couple hours while the lake enhanced band moved through earlier...by far the heaviest snowfall rate I can recall seeing in November.  Ended up with a decent rally to get to around 6", so not anything like what you guys had up north but still good enough to be the heaviest November snowfall that I can recall.

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It is absolutely gorgeous outside. Pavement is snowcovered but it looks funny how much deeper it is on the grass. Closing in on 4" on the grass after this mornings snow all melted off. Obviously after getting a 16.5" storm less than a year ago, I cant say this is anywhere near my "top" of all-time storms as it is for others. However, in terms of tree cakings it is the best snow we have had in YEARS. Also, I can not recall a better first snowfall to kick off a season. A theme that held throughout the last two winters and as we kick off this winter is that big snowstorms have been largely overperforming in the jackpot areas. This is not only a complete about face from several years ago, but is awesome news heading into winter.

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The 11.2" at ORD makes this the 2nd largest November snowstorm on record. In addition to that, today's daily snowfall total of 7.0" makes it the 3rd largest daily snowfall total on record for November.

Biggest November Snowstorms:

1. 12.0" - 11/25-26/1895

2. 11.2" - 11/20-21/2015

3. 9.3" - 11/6-7/1951

4. 8.6" - 11/26-27/1975

5. 6.0" - 11/27-28/1891

6. 5.8" - 11/26-27/1978

7. 5.7" - 11/26/1941

8. 4.8" - 11/15/1940

9. 4.8" - 11/17-18/1927

10. 4.7" - 11/26/1950

Biggest Daily November Snowfalls:

1. 8.0" - 11/6/1951

2. 7.5" - 11/26/1975

3. 7.0" - 11/21/2015

4. 5.8" - 11/27/1891

5. 5.7" - 11/26/1941

6. 5.0" - 11/25/1895

7. 4.8" - 11/15/1940

8. 4.7" - 11/26/1950

9. 4.4" - 11/3/1951

10. 4.3" - 11/24/2004

 

 

11.2" is also the heaviest first measurable snow of the season for Chicago.  What I posted the other day:

 

 

 

 

 

This storm will be the first measurable snow of the season for Chicago.  Here are the largest first measurable snowfalls of the season for Chicago.  In some cases I had to check the old maps to see what was going on as there would be measurable snow 3 or 4 days in a row, but sometimes it was clear that it was separate storms, so those cases where it was clearly separate storms were not included.

 

Should note that daily snowfall data was missing for a few years.

 

 

10/18-20/1989:  6.3"

12/6-7/1994:  6.1"

11/17-19/1927:  4.9"

11/15/1940:  4.8"

11/3/1951:  4.4"

10/26-27/1967:  4.4"

11/24/2004:  4.3"

11/12-14/1959:  4.1"

11/5/1896:  4.0"

11/23-25/1947:  3.9"

 

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Try #2 at contouring snow totals, going by the Local Storm Reports as of 6:45-7:00 EST Nov 21 2015. It seems that more snow (a few inches?) has fallen in Detroit and immediate area since these LSRs were updated.

 

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Wanna stretch the 12+ totals back this way to Battle Creek. I believe there was 10-11 inch reports along i94 all the way to the lake/Van Buren.

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Fun fact...current November snowfall for ORD stands at 11.2". The last 10 Novembers combined prior to this one? 6.9"

On that note... With this storm November 2015 is now the 4th snowiest November on record.

Snowiest Novembers:

1. 14.8" - 1940

2. 14.5" - 1895

3. 14.3" - 1951

4. 11.2" - 2015

5. 10.8" - 1975

6. 7.6" - 1953

7. 7.5" - 1893

8. 7.1" - 1978

9. 7.0" - 1950

10. 6.8" - 1891

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About 3" on the sidewalk here just northwest of I-94 and Telegraph, 5-6" on the grass and elevated surfaces. Started out slow, but has turned out to be the best November snow I can remember locally.  It's an absolute picturesque winter wonderland out there with every tree branch caked with snow.

 

Did you move from SW Detroit for good?

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Did you move from SW Detroit for good?

More than likely. It wasn't really a choice, and I hate to be one of those people who abandons the city especially when things are turning around and after living there for most of my life, but that's how it goes sometimes I guess.

On the subject of pictures from tonight, this is a tree in one of my neighbor's yard that looked amazing in the snow:

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More than likely. It wasn't really a choice, and I hate to be one of those people who abandons the city especially when things are turning around and after living there for most of my life, but that's how it goes sometimes I guess.

On the subject of pictures from tonight, this is a tree in one of my neighbor's yard that looked amazing in the snow:

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Some folks have been waiting almost 50 years for a true turn around that, so far, hasn't happened, so don't be so hard on yourself. At the end of the day, you gotta do what you gotta do. And ultimately, whatever happens with the city will happen.  

 

Personally, while things aren't as dire as they were during the 2009-2013 period, there are still way too many quality of life issues to deal with in the city that I don't see being resolved any time soon.

 

I was hoping to move out this year, but that plan was botched. So possibly by this Summer instead. 

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Some folks have been waiting almost 50 years for a true turn around that, so far, hasn't happened, so don't be so hard on yourself. At the end of the day, you gotta do what you gotta do. And ultimately, whatever happens with the city will happen.  

 

Personally, while things aren't as dire as they were during the 2009-2013 period, there are still way too many quality of life issues to deal with in the city that I don't see being resolved any time soon.

 

I was hoping to move out this year, but that plan was botched. So possibly by this Summer instead. 

Yeah, I totally agree with that, I just always will have a spot in my heart for the city and I definitely miss the character many of the neighborhoods had and the extreme sense of pride a lot of people there have for their specific streets and neighborhoods that you're never going to see in the 'burbs. We've been some of the last holdouts here on the forum in the city for a while.

 

I wonder how my old 'hood did tonight with the snow, judging from what some of my friends and family have said they didn't do too bad. There have been some wild deviations in snow amounts, from almost nothing along the shores Lake St. Clair to over 10" in Armada in Macomb county, not sure how crazy the gradient was in Wayne county because there almost never are any good reports from the southern part of the county.

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That Cook county gradient is nuts, like something you might see in a lake effect storm.  Makes you wonder how the hell 12" fell on November 25-26, 1895, when the official observation site was in the heart of the city. 

 

The marine influence was one of the more challenging things with this system...not that it wouldn't occur, but just how much it would cut into totals and how far inland it would reach.  I also have to wonder if urban effects came into play to screw the downtown area...so maybe it wasn't just marine related.  I looked up the population for Chicago back in 1895 and estimating it was somewhere around 1.5 million, so not like the city was undeveloped back then.

 

That being said, it was very close to being a major dumping downtown.  850 mb temps for most of this storm were around -6 to -8, so perhaps another degree or two colder would've been a cold enough airmass to counteract the marine effects.

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