beavis1729 Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Some 15-21" reports out of the GRB cwa and I imagine elsewhere too. In the GRB special weather statement, they mention totals could be 30”+ in some areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Looks like Minneapolis, on average, has seen 12-15" so far. Meanwhile, it appears the areas in Northern Lower MI that got hit by the initial round of snow have been seeing sleet / freezing rain for much of today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, beavis1729 said: In the GRB special weather statement, they mention totals could be 30”+ in some areas. So the extreme model output looks like it will actually verify in some spots. Here's something interesting. GRB now has more snow in April than they got in DJF combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 I picked up about an inch of snow this morning before it tapered off and the sun began melting it. It's mostly gone now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outflow Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Mostly sleet here as well today. Granted roads are a mess and the winds yesterday caused some power outages but in the end nothing close to what would have been if the freezing rain would have materialized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoboy645 Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Right now I have about 5" of snow on the ground with an 1" of sleet under it. The snow part is actually kind of fluffy for a late-season storm. The sleet though negates it so it is still a pain to shovel. Has been snowing with on and off heavier squalls all day long. I am really happy that im not in Green Bay or Door County right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Finally switched over to -FZRA/FZDZ. Sleet storm total at YYZ will be over 3". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Looks like snow til you get out into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 2 hours ago, Hoosier said: Some 15-21" reports out of the GRB cwa and I imagine elsewhere too. Reports of roof collapse at a hotel in that area. http://fox6now.com/2018/04/15/guests-evacuated-after-roof-collapses-at-hotel-in-green-bay/amp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 56 minutes ago, snowstormcanuck said: Finally switched over to -FZRA/FZDZ. Sleet storm total at YYZ will be over 3". ~1.6" today at YYZ. Now we await for the rain to melt this cement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcaine Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Freezing rain has begun and everything beginning to glaze over. Winds gusting like mad. Please change to rain asap I want to keep power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 1 hour ago, snowstormcanuck said: Looks like snow til you get out into it. I'm never shoveling sleet again if I can help it. Just too much of a pain. The thing you have to be aware of though when it gets to greater depths is that it can literally lock your vehicle in place and make it difficult to get out. And it's more resistant to melting than snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outflow Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 http://upnorthlive.com/news/local/waves-damage-property-near-lakeshore-in-manistee Just another thing to write home about for this storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 From NWS GRB: .CLIMATE... Issued at 347 PM CDT Sun Apr 15 2018 Historic winter storm brought 15 to 30 inches of snow with locally higher amounts possible (near Tigerton in Shawano County?). This storm will go down in the record books as the largest April snowstorm on record and more than likely one of the largest of all-time at Green Bay, Rhinelander and Wausau. As of 1 pm, Green Bay recorded 20.6 inches of snow. This eclipses the old April snowstorm record of 11.0 inches set on April 4-5, 1977. The 20.6 inches of snow also makes it the third largest snowstorm on record behind 29.0 inches set on March 1-2, 1888 and the 23.1 inches set on January 8-9, 1889. At least an inch or two has fallen since 1 pm, thus when the official observation is taken at 7 pm tonight this could become the 2nd largest snowstorm on record at Green Bay. Stay tuned! As you can imagine, the monthly April snowfall records at Green Bay, Rhinelander and Wausau have been shattered. To put this in perspective, Green Bay received 31.4 inches of snow from October 1st to March 31st. As of 1 pm today, Green Bay received 33.1 inches for the month of April or more than half the winter snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 44 minutes ago, snowcaine said: Freezing rain has begun and everything beginning to glaze over. Winds gusting like mad. Please change to rain asap I want to keep power Yup. Everything's getting coated. With winds this strong it's not going to take more than a few tenths of an inch of ice build up for power problems to start happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 35 minutes ago, Hoosier said: I'm never shoveling sleet again if I can help it. Just too much of a pain. The thing you have to be aware of though when it gets to greater depths is that it can literally lock your vehicle in place and make it difficult to get out. And it's more resistant to melting than snow. Experienced that first hand this morning. Tried to reverse my car, it was stuck. Had to dig my car out of a couple inches of sleet, something I almost never have to do with 6 or even 8" of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 It’s bad here. A foot or just a bit more since 8 this morning. Winds are gusting between 30-35 mph consistently. 10-15” more by tomorrow afternoon, with a few more inches tomorrow night likely. The deepest depth I’ve ever seen at my house is 52”. Seriously may make a run for that! This is crazy even for up here just two weeks shy of May! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Freezing rain now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 It's still snowing in Minneapolis. Going on 48 hours of some sort of frozen precip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 1 hour ago, on_wx said: Freezing rain now Steady freezing rain at my place now. Everything is glazed over, trees are crackling in the ice as the wind blows the branches. Temperature still about 29-30F (minus 2 Celsius) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Right now I see melting out there despite sitting at 0ºC so I must be above freezing. I'm going to be floored if I don't even pick up 1/10th of an inch of ice from this storm...that and the lack of precip so far this Sunday (before the regular rain begins) really is insane. Even if the sleet and ice pellets had been FZRA it wouldn't have come close to the amounts forecast consistently (and just hours before the timerange)...the hourly forecast of the heaviest freezing rain being noon (I checked 3 hours before) didn't produce anything until 45 mins in and that wasn't much! Forecast winds and gusts would've been a once in a 10 year event if true. TWN increased the wind speeds instead of lowering them this morning - I'm not even getting half those values! LOL. What on earth are those models outputting to give me these forecasts. There was a news article from TWN titled "A storm that lived up to the hype" or something along those lines. I'll share my thoughts on that until its all over however hours later the headline could no longer be found interestingly . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcaine Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Green flashes from transformers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcaine Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 Temperature absolutely won't budge. At -0.3 degrees and it won't budge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Snow completely melted as it fell all afternoon until the past hour or so when the sun got low enough in the sky. Looks like a few tenths on the grassy/elevated surfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 44 minutes ago, snowcaine said: Temperature absolutely won't budge. At -0.3 degrees and it won't budge. I have two thermometers. One is reading -0.4. the other -1.9. Freezing rain continuing to fall... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisale Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Official 8 PM observation was -1.4C here. Moderate freezing rain on going for about the last hour and a half so. Gusting well over 60 km/h at times. The trees are starting to get that crackle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mississaugasnow Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 well this was somewhat unexpected. Police have shut down some roads in south Mississauga, especially right along the lake. Large trees have fallen and taken out power lines. Still sitting right at 32F at 9pm. Rain is just creeping along the lakeshore but I feel like the middle-northern GTA might be looking at a massive ice storm. Decent amount of Ice on the trees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcaine Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Just now, mississaugasnow said: well this was somewhat unexpected. Police have shut down some roads in south Mississauga, especially right along the lake. Large trees have fallen and taken out power lines. Still sitting right at 32F at 9pm. Rain is just creeping along the lakeshore but I feel like the middle-northern GTA might be looking at a massive ice storm. Decent amount of Ice on the trees Yeah I am worried. Wind is howling and the temperature refuses to budge. Models had us safely above freezing by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 18 minutes ago, snowcaine said: Yeah I am worried. Wind is howling and the temperature refuses to budge. Models had us safely above freezing by now. As usual, the models were too aggressive with scouring out the low level cold. NAM did the best job though, as is typical. YYZ jumped to -0.2c at 9pm. We should hopefully get just enough above freezing in the next hour or so to prevent this from being devastating. At least along/south of the 401; northern GTA may be another story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted April 16, 2018 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Quite the ice storm here this morning, but we have warmed well above freezing to around 40ﾟ so it's just plain rain now. The ice had melted by early afternoon; some places do have some flooding issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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