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January 10th-12th Winter Storm Potential


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1 hour ago, RCNYILWX said:

While a primarily rain event is very much in the cards with a painful miss just north/northwest, it's still well within the envelope of possibility for the deformation snows to nail much of the Chicago metro at this range, particularly I-55 and northwest. As has already been mentioned, there have been important changes in the handling of the southern wave. Also, convection has been known to mess with mass fields of systems, along with the possibility of robbing some of the moisture transport. And there will be a ton of convection south of here with this system.

 

There very well could be an area of warning criteria ice somewhere in interior northern Illinois. However, as laid out in Carlaw's AFD, there are so many points of uncertainty with that aspect of forecast 3 days out. There's reason to doubt huge ice accums with very heavy precip rates forecast, and possibility convection causes more sleet. That said, with the strengthening northerly winds Friday night into Saturday, it won't take huge ice accums to cause significant issues with falling tree limbs and power outages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am sort of wondering about the ice potential in the LOT area (in a narrow band) as the main low pressure swings into IN.  Precip rates look a bit lower then so could at least have more efficient accretion.  See NAM after 72 hrs.  Tricky situation though.  

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44 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

12z Canadian significantly backed off with cold side precip. Barely advisory level snows in the deformation area. And not much ice either 

36 minutes ago, michaelmantis said:

I'm in between Dekalb and Cary so right on the razors edge! I'll start getting more interested in this later today.

 

Actually still dont think this ever materializes into more then cold rain and a little slop on the back end. Really only have the Euro pointing to a significant snowfall. Waiting for it to cave to blah GFS and lack of cold air CMC. The wacky NAM will fall in line last minute with a poof its gone run inside 24 hrs. However recent data: UKMET and GEFS may hold out some hope.

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12z UKMET looks good for backside snow in northern IL and possibly far NW IN. Only basing off surface temps and surface low track from weather.us so someone would have to confirm if that's accurate. 12z run is slightly east of 00z. a6daab460ccaabd2260f584a65c353c9.jpg&key=2b66cc7f2a08a58c9cccdf8c57ed03c0c928660677d99f88a5666aabba2d0c08407957279c22be4c7fe216bc9b11103f.jpg&key=ecf990a25be031df9fa3909395699da545945da04118145a2611e58c518f7199e5cb44cac9d5df2052afee847d074329.jpg&key=aab2edc3d983307423e3d8884c107aaabf8de48b0abdd55ce1f366f69e96634131d74f060050a96af2e16d7ab7280aa0.jpg&key=7cbc45d04a1b7f2ed4f920285e54159a7e4123de8c06fdda66b7922c3d5233f6

 

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13 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

12z UKMET looks good for backside snow in northern IL and possibly far NW IN. Only basing off surface temps and surface low track from weather.us so someone would have to confirm if that's accurate. 12z run is slightly east of 00z. a6daab460ccaabd2260f584a65c353c9.jpg&key=2b66cc7f2a08a58c9cccdf8c57ed03c0c928660677d99f88a5666aabba2d0c08407957279c22be4c7fe216bc9b11103f.jpg&key=ecf990a25be031df9fa3909395699da545945da04118145a2611e58c518f7199e5cb44cac9d5df2052afee847d074329.jpg&key=aab2edc3d983307423e3d8884c107aaabf8de48b0abdd55ce1f366f69e96634131d74f060050a96af2e16d7ab7280aa0.jpg&key=7cbc45d04a1b7f2ed4f920285e54159a7e4123de8c06fdda66b7922c3d5233f6

 

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Implied solid hit for sure.  Lots of precip in those timeframes.  Question would be any warm layers on the southeast fringe. 

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Thinking with trends this morning of a more progressive, and therefore more southerly, second wave that it seems fairly likely that the best snow slides southeast of here. If I had to take a stab, Id bet area from Kirksville to Sterling and far SE WI get the best snow. It’s a narrow band in any case, so any additional change in track to the south and we may get shut out entirely. 

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Implied solid hit for sure.  Lots of precip in those timeframes.  Question would be any warm layers on the southeast fringe. 

The coarse 850 mb maps on meteocentre unfortunately only go out to 72 hours. It shows >=0C for the entire CWA still at 12z Saturday but would think the CAA would kick in after in earnest based off the surface low track this run has. Clicking back through the 2m temp progs from weather.us would suggest ice/sleet in the northwest 1/3 of the CWA on Friday night into early Saturday.  

 

That timeframe early Saturday could corelate to what you mentioned about icing threat extending into Saturday morning prior to sufficient cooling aloft.

 

 

 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said:

The coarse 850 mb maps on meteocentre unfortunately only go out to 72 hours. It shows >=0C for the entire CWA still at 12z Saturday but would think the CAA would kick in after in earnest based off the surface low track this run has. Clicking back through the 2m temp progs from weather.us would suggest ice/sleet in the northwest 1/3 of the CWA on Friday night into early Saturday.  

 

That timeframe early Saturday could corelate to what you mentioned about icing threat extending into Saturday morning prior to sufficient cooling aloft.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know if it's just me but it seems like the modeled precip type transition zones are lagging behind the surface low a bit more than usual.  So that UK track is great for the area but just wonder if mixed precip may hang on longer than it seems, especially east.

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14 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

Haha.... euro just went against the other models and shifted back nw.

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Another model with seemingly farther than usual displaced precip type zones.  A lot of systems won't have freezing rain into Kenosha when the surface low is around I-70. 

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