weatherbo Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Negaunee school bus garage roof collapsed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Had a wind gust of 60MPH last night at Willard Airport, even had pea size hail move through sw Champaign county as well. Goodlord Bo and Will, you guys are going to be up to your eyeballs in snow! Literally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 The wind here has been howling since 1am. The CR airport has reported a max gust of 60 mph. There is very little snow to blow around here, though, as we only picked up a dusting overnight. There is still a substantial snowpack, but it's rain-soaked and frozen so it can't blow around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Was that it for the winds? Pretty meh. All that snow Up Der is just bananas. Lots of homeowners insurance claims to commence soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 I guess it's a blizzard now, but tbh, it's like this a lot. lol Storm total so far looks between 15-16" based on the hood of my truck and whats on the drive. 16z HRRR suggesting another foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AppsRunner Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Ground blizzard conditions have closed I-35 from Ames to the MN border today. Basically every road outside town is closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 35 minutes ago, weatherbo said: One of the most insane pictures I have ever seen. I’m drooling. Is this your deepest depth since you moved there? Another foot to go? Goodlord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishforsnow Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Two neighbors out blowing snow. Heck with it. I am going to wait until the wind goes down tomorrow. They can stick it where I work. I will be in when I am in. Notice my one furnace vent getting covered. Luckily I have a window over it and was able to stick a shovel out the window to get it cleared. Keep going to get around making the pipe higher. I caught some kind of bug. Very weak and tired today don't really want to climb the bank of snow to get back there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 3 minutes ago, Chambana said: One of the most insane pictures I have ever seen. I’m drooling. Is this your deepest depth since you moved there? Another foot to go? Goodlord I have ridden my sled to some pretty remote parts of the Huron's, and I've seen some deep snow of 5' or so before, but in the 6 years I've lived here, never have I come across snow as deep as it is right now. There's trees that were bent over from the ice storm a few weeks ago, now their tree tops are getting buried in the snow pack. 17z hrrr still shows a narrow swath of a foot through here too. Howling, horizontal snow currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Winds picked up here, only picked up a inch or so, already lost power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 59 minutes ago, weatherbo said: Damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 1 hour ago, weatherbo said: Holy crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 EC "dropping the big hammer" by issuing a blizzard warning for various areas of Midwestern Ontario and the snowbelts: 1:30 PM EST Sunday 24 February 2019 Blizzard warning in effect for: Dangerous snow squalls with blizzard conditions developing later today. Temperatures will plummet through the day behind a strong cold front. Snow squalls will develop later this afternoon and combine with very strong westerly winds with gusts of 90 to 110 km/h to produce near zero visibility at times. The most hazardous conditions are expected tonight, but will improve Monday as winds weaken. It should be emphasized that the most significant aspect of this event will be from the very poor visibility and high winds and not from the snowfall accumulations. Total snowfall accumulations of 5 to 15 cm are likely by Monday. This is only the second time I've been under a blizzard warning since I started following, the other of course during the ultimate winter event of my life on January 6 2014. I don't think it'll be as impressive but the greatest event of the winter is definitely incoming! The winds turned on here about 12:40 pm and they are picking up with howlings just starting. Getting wet snowflakes currently hours ahead of schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Quote Puking snow now, winds around 45-50 mph, Roads are a mess from the rain and snow melt from the warm front, huge ponding allover the roads. Flash freeze in progress, what a mess hopefully I dont run out of gas for the generator may need to take the sled to get more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naptown Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 1 hour ago, weatherbo said: I think I just messed my pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Gusting to 52 knots at Houghton MI and that's not as exposed as some places might be. Highest gust I could find from the storm was 57 knots at BUF. Low is currently located around Elliot Lake ON about 100 miles northeast of SSM at 970 mbs. Agree in general with the wording of EC blizzard warning but some local amounts may surprise, Lake Huron has minimal ice cover, betting that a mega-squall band sets up across north-central Simcoe County (Midland-Orillia area) which I have seen in real life a few dozen times, you can get 30-50 cm in a few hours when that one gets going. It was always a question driving north into that area, where do you hit the wall of snow, I could usually tell from wind direction within one or two concession roads in the stretch between Barrie and Orillia (used to live in that area including 1974-78, some big snowfall events that gave a similar outcome to what we're seeing in these pictures). Parallel bands from central Lake Huron further south mostly 20-30 cm max, one probably running Goderich to Listowel roughly and another Bayfield to Stratford, but highly variable amounts likely in banding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 1 hour ago, (((Will))) said: Just spent an hour outside digging out my furnace vents. They were almost completely drifted over but luckily the warm air had formed a 2 foot tunnel to the surface of the snow which helped me find them. Could not get to them from outdoors...it's impossible to get through that deep of snow. Had to open up a window, dig through the snow which was about 18 inches above the base of the window. I kept digging from inside the house until I had a bit of a flat surface area to step out onto and start looking. It's friggin windy out there. It takes a lot to bring the UP to a halt, but from what I'm hearing around the area, it's bad. I estimate 18-19" here since yesterday, and its so dense. The snow is swallowing up the house. Standing down my drive, snow is seriously at my freaking chin taking this pic. I'm gonna have to shovel the windows out before they smash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Hang in there, looks like another 10-15" event for the u.p. next weekend. At least there should be four fairly decent days to clear snow between Tuesday and Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlon62 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 It takes a lot to bring the UP to a halt, but from what I'm hearing around the area, it's bad. I estimate 18-19" here since yesterday, and its so dense. The snow is swallowing up the house. Standing down my drive, snow is seriously at my freaking chin taking this pic. I'm gonna have to shovel the windows out before they smash. At what point do they declare a state of emergency?Sent from my SM-G935P using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveNay Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 At what point do they declare a state of emergency?Sent from my SM-G935P using TapatalkWhen the UP becomes a state? Badum, tssss. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 1 minute ago, kevlon62 said: At what point do they declare a state of emergency? Sent from my SM-G935P using Tapatalk I'm declaring one now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNstorms Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 ALL roads in southern Minnesota are closed until 5am. I35 Near Mankato. Near Rochester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertSul Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 5 hours ago, weatherbo said: Wow, that's insane. Be careful out there man!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 I've only seen snow like that in high elevations of the Selkirk Mountains around here, or in the mid-1970s in Ontario. There was a time in January 1976 when six to eight feet of snow covered most of the London ON region and snowplow drifts were up above ten feet high, the city works people had to go around the side streets placing poles with flags on them to mark the location of fire hydrants. In early April 1975 there was a storm like this one in central Ontario and it closed highways for a week with people stranded in community centres and church basements in towns north of Toronto. But that storm started with only a foot of snow at the most on the ground, so one can only imagine how much worse this one will be for future recovery and travel issues. One thing I can advise (for the Minnesota open country especially) is that if you don't clear the big undulating drifts from driveways etc, they will freeze hard in the freeze-thaw cycle of the strong sunshine and cold temperatures to follow, and when they freeze, they are going to last 2-3 weeks minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppsRunner Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 May not be as bad as some of the others... but across central Iowa it's still bad. I-35 still shut down between Ames and the border. Route 69 between here and Des Moines almost worse. I-35 north of Story City: Route 69 between Ames and Ankeny: Route 69 north of Story City: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Seems worth capturing the image from space on this historic deep low (in this image, centre quite evident south of Timmins, ON). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNstorms Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 13 minutes ago, AppsRunner said: May not be as bad as some of the others... but across central Iowa it's still bad. I-35 still shut down between Ames and the border. Route 69 between here and Des Moines almost worse. I-35 north of Story City: Route 69 between Ames and Ankeny: Route 69 north of Story City: Your plow cams have much better picture quality than our's. Also how do they know where the road is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbo Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 5 minutes ago, (((Will))) said: I'm guessing Bo lost power... Winds are really bad out there. Past few hours we've been gusting well in excess of 60mph - as high as 68mph at the airport a few miles south of here at a lower elevation. No, I'm still here. I think the severe ice storm a couple weeks ago really cleaned up loose and dead trees along the line out to the main road. I have a new generator on stand-by anyway... most likely the power will never go out again now. I think the highest gust here has been around 50 mph, and now I see a diminishing trend in the snow but it's still blowing and swirling around, with occasional twigs, sticks and debris from the woods hitting the windows. A for real blizzard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh_4184 Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Wow, been a crazy 5-6 hours so far, pounding snow and 55mph winds, my county has declared a state of emergency (Otsego) all county roads closed. I75 has been closed in both directions. Some of the worst winter weather I have seen since living up here. Picked up about 7" so far, drifts 5-6'. Still no power. Quote OTSEGO COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A state of emergency has been declared for Otsego County. Motorists are advised to stay off the roads. I-75 in both directions is closed to all traffic. Officials have closed all Otsego County roads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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