Kaner88 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Looking set for 2" here just north of ORD. Definitely a nice surprise with a bit of accumulation in today's (yesterday's?) event, perhaps 1". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConvectiveIA Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Models this morning are trending south with the main banding and also predicting wider area of snow from SW to NE, a good thing for everyone. The RAP and HRRR were scaring me last night. We got 2.5" on the ground right now on lawns and such, so have been hoping for another top up with this. Models still do not EXACTLY agree on the southern edge of snow though and we are half in and half out, some models have us at 1 inch, the RDPS Canadian and Trusty GFS has us at 4 inches. . so there are no guarantees but I am still excited for folks just to my east and north. I will be satisfied if we can pick up 1.5 out of this deal here. Good folk in Australia shall enjoy swimming at the lake and Volleyball today. But folks in Illinois Shan't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Wouldn’t be surprised for this one to be a nice overachiever for many north of the main axis. Nice DGZ should support good SLR, so it would not surprise me to see most of LOT’s WWA on the high end of the range. Roads will be an absolute nightmare by evening rush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 8 hours ago, Hoosier said: I wouldn't doubt if Wyandotte starts finding a way to snow in summer. lol. I doubt that haha. We got 1.7" of snow. Had super fluff to start, then ratios calmed down. On my drive to work just past the airport and into Farmington Hills there is clearly less, about an inch Id say, maybe a tad less in spots. Im guessing it must have been good dendrites on the east side that helped. Season totals in SE MI right now range from 22 to 24" at the official 3 climate sites (DTW, FNT, DTX) and up to 25-30" in some of the elevated northern suburbs (per spotters). November only had trace amounts of snow, so its basically all December. Toledo is "only" at 11.8" (still better than the rest of the non snowbelt midwest) so its as if the joke about a southern MI snow magnet is really ringing true this season. IA, IL, IN, & OH will almost certainly see more snow than us tonight but we should still add some more. Then another arctic hammer drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 0.6" at ORD with yesterday's event.0.9" here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Today looks decent. Main axis sets up into the south-central CWA. ORD looks good for 3.1" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Today looks decent. Main axis sets up into the south-central CWA. ORD looks good for 3.1"Always appreciate a good no nonsense post with facts and details.Sent from my SM-G925T using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Beautiful, large dendrites pouring down here. DVN upped us to a warning, but it's pretty marginal... 4-6" with no wind. Update: Near an inch already within the first hour thanks to those large flakes. The flakes are small now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 22 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said: Beautiful, large dendrites pouring down here. DVN upped us to a warning, but it's pretty marginal... 4-6" with no wind. Update: Near an inch already within the first hour thanks to those large flakes. The flakes are small now. Jebus..try not to piss on our parade before it gets here....."pretty marginal" ..."the flakes are small now".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowlover2 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Getting some flurries here now which is good because it means no virga with the main show. Things looking better here. Got WWA for 2-3" but latest models show it could be more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondo1000 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Just now, snowlover2 said: Getting some flurries here now which is good because it means no virga with the main show. Things looking better here. Got WWA for 2-3" but latest models show it could be more than that. Same here and was just thinking the same thing. I think this will do better than the xmas eve one for sure! No warn temps the past few days helps too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachLB Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 9 minutes ago, snowlover2 said: Getting some flurries here now which is good because it means no virga with the main show. Things looking better here. Got WWA for 2-3" but latest models show it could be more than that. NWS Wilmington hasn't updated. Morning outlook was using a blended 18:1 ratio on the 2-3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 39 minutes ago, Baum said: Jebus..try not to piss on our parade before it gets here....."pretty marginal" ..."the flakes are small now".... "Pretty marginal" is my feeling about the upgrade to warning, not the system/snow itself. I'm thrilled with 4-6" and no wind. Regarding the flakes, they have remained small. It's still coming down at a good rate, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 1 hour ago, hawkeye_wx said: Beautiful, large dendrites pouring down here. DVN upped us to a warning, but it's pretty marginal... 4-6" with no wind. Update: Near an inch already within the first hour thanks to those large flakes. The flakes are small now. I was surprised they updated you guys to a warning, but I suppose it's the right move from a public safety standpoint. Marginal is a perfect way to describe it. Light snow here, have a dusting already and figure we are good for up to a half inch. Tiny flakes like yesterday but I thought we would be in virga on the far northern edge so this is all bonus in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowlover2 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 44 minutes ago, CoachLB said: NWS Wilmington hasn't updated. Morning outlook was using a blended 18:1 ratio on the 2-3. They probably won't update for another 3 to 4 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftfeuchtigkeit Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Very small flakes started at 11:30am here in Madison. Going for 1". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoalCityWxMan Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 A quick 0.3" here. Snow is accumulating very efficiently as expected, flake size is decent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 29, 2017 Author Share Posted December 29, 2017 1 hour ago, hawkeye_wx said: "Pretty marginal" is my feeling about the upgrade to warning, not the system/snow itself. I'm thrilled with 4-6" and no wind. Regarding the flakes, they have remained small. It's still coming down at a good rate, though. This would explain the small flake size. Would note that the NAM/GFS had a much more favorable overlay of omega in the DGZ. Not that good dendrites won't occur but it may be tough to sustain that type of flake production in many areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Flurries started in the loop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Thanks for the sounding graphic, Hoosier. That does make sense. It's currently pouring pixie dust here. The lift is there, just not at the best level. At 12pm I was up to 2.2". There are brighter radar returns in central Iowa, so I'm hoping to get back into the better snow rates. In central Iowa, Marshalltown was under a brighter band for a couple hours and they are reporting nearly 4 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homedis Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Light snow (decently sized flakes) here now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Been snowing here for an hour. Lightly at first, but coming down a decent clip now with better flake size. That last part being the issue, thinking we’ll probably be somewhere in the 2-3” range here when all is said and done. Nice refresher nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 5 hours ago, SchaumburgStormer said: Wouldn’t be surprised for this one to be a nice overachiever for many north of the main axis. Nice DGZ should support good SLR, so it would not surprise me to see most of LOT’s WWA on the high end of the range. Roads will be an absolute nightmare by evening rush. Looks like my optimism may be misplaced. Straight pixie dust falling, very similar to xmas eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 snow reports are generally from the northern Iowa area. There's decent radar reflectivity going into central Illinois, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King James Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Not much to write home about yet here in Will County Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Illinois Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 16 hours ago, StormChaser4Life said: 0z gfs seems to be holding firm. Not caving to nam. Hard to ignore its consistency GFS/GEM busted hard on the Southern end barely flurries here and it had this area at 2-4" along I-72 east of I-55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Extremely inefficiently accumulating pixie dust the entire event thus far. Unless a marked increase in flake size or intensity occurs, areas north of 88 will bust well low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radtechwxman Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 12 minutes ago, Central Illinois said: GFS/GEM busted hard on the Southern end barely flurries here and it had this area at 2-4" along I-72 east of I-55 Problem is this band hasn't shifted south much all day. Eventually it should. But yea honestly models didn't do well with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Sitting at 3.1" at 2pm, still getting 0.4-0.5" per hour from small flakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlauderdal Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Moderate snow downtown chicagoSent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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