April 15-17 Snow

[mimillman]

Snow is totally gone

[SchaumburgStormer]

5.1” here and already melted down over half of that. 

[sokolow]

Highly effective event in terms of facilitating every tool and instrument getting covered in a terrible slurry of mud and slush while ensuring a good drenching from without and / or sweat soaking from within depending on degree of waterproofing on your clothes and boots

[sokolow]

My facemask, hi vis, everything looks like I went bobbing for apples in Bigfoot’s outhouse

[Hoosier]

6 minutes ago, sokolow said:

Highly effective event in terms of facilitating every tool and instrument getting covered in a terrible slurry of mud and slush while ensuring a good drenching from without and / or sweat soaking from within depending on degree of waterproofing on your clothes and boots

wut 

[Hoosier]

Actually was a pretty big bust south of I-80, at least from yesterday's forecast.  Like around the Kankakee valley.  That area was in line for 4-8" and appears to have come in more like 1-2"

[Chicago Storm]

ORD finished with 2.8"

[Hoosier]

15 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

ORD finished with 2.8"

Just beating out the 2.5" on 4/27/2019. 

Officially, it is the biggest snow in Chicago to occur after April 15 since 3.1" fell on 4/23/1967.  

[Hoosier]

[IWXwx]

1 hour ago, Hoosier said:

Actually was a pretty big bust south of I-80, at least from yesterday's forecast.  Like around the Kankakee valley.  That area was in line for 4-8" and appears to have come in more like 1-2"

The same across Northern IN. IWX kept pumping out widespread 4-6" maps between US 24 and US 6, while their SitRep kept saying that the heavy band would not be that wide.  It was obvious that there would be no more than narrow band of 4-6".  This band occurred, but not in the area depicted, but north of US 6.  1.6" of stat-padding here with forecasts of 2-5".

[michsnowfreak]

Probably over 3" but its compacting, this morning in that band it was gorgeous!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jonger]

2 hours ago, mimillman said:

Snow is totally gone

This is why I don't care much for small snows this late in the spring.

[Stebo]

My one picture is incomparable to Josh's but still decent rates here. Total at 4PM was 2.9 on the day

 

[michsnowfreak]

2 minutes ago, Stebo said:

My one picture is incomparable to Josh's but still decent rates here. Total at 4PM was 2.9 on the day

 

Nice pic. Thanks, I love my train track pic, it could be a winter postcard

[Jonger]

We didn't have any accumulation in Howell. I could see the writing on the wall for that one, no surprise here.

[cyclone77]

Didn't take long for the fresh snow to vanish today.  From winter wonderland to spring in less than 6hrs.

 

[SchaumburgStormer]

5” gone by 5pm. Wish I had a time lapse 

 

edit: it’s like cyclone read my mind...

[Hoosier]

Still have some snow left here but most has melted. 

[Chicago Storm]

ORD finished with 2.8"

Make that 3.0”, not 2.8”


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[hawkeye_wx]

3 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Probably over 3" but its compacting, this morning in that band it was gorgeous!

That's a great photo.  It reminds me of the movie 'Runaway Train'.

[Stebo]

3.4 is the final for DTW. Not too bad all things considered.

[MIstorm97]

Picked up 0.9" of snow in Berkley...on the snow board. Grass didn't even have half of that probably, and of course the pavement was wet. After about 2pm everything effectively melted and despite solid SN, no new accumulations happened. If this was a month ago, those 3-4" totals would've been in northern Detroit and around 6" downriver. I did venture down to Monroe and got into some decent snow, and this hopefully is my last snow video of the season.

The 0.9" of snow places me at 2.3" for April, which is the same total I got in March. My season total is now at 49.3", not bad for a warm winter like this.

 

[purduewx80]

6 hours ago, Hoosier said:

Actually was a pretty big bust south of I-80, at least from yesterday's forecast.  Like around the Kankakee valley.  That area was in line for 4-8" and appears to have come in more like 1-2"

This one was a good example of why not to forecast snow using QPF alone. 800-600mb 00Z NAM average frontogenesis (where the DGZ was located) and composite radar valid at 11Z below. Note the greens/blues are a proxy for downward motion and the orange/red upwards. Lower level winds then carry the snowflakes S/SW (in the case of low-level NE winds) of where the best fronto/lift is occurring.

[RogueWaves]

9 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

I took a jebwalk when that band was coming through. I was in heaven, the scenery was just amazing. Don't even care that its April 17th

Be honest tho. You wouldn't mind snow if it was July 17th. Once flowers are blooming, snow is not welcomed in my book. At least in November, snow is a pre-season gift of sorts.

 

[Hoosier]

1 hour ago, purduewx80 said:

This one was a good example of why not to forecast snow using QPF alone. 800-600mb 00Z NAM average frontogenesis (where the DGZ was located) and composite radar valid at 11Z below. Note the greens/blues are a proxy for downward motion and the orange/red upwards. Lower level winds then carry the snowflakes S/SW (in the case of low-level NE winds) of where the best fronto/lift is occurring.

Good stuff.  Thanks 

[michsnowfreak]

14 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

That's a great photo.  It reminds me of the movie 'Runaway Train'.

Thanks! Its my favorite from yesterday. I live just a few blocks from the tracks and took a walk, it was just awesome. Would have been awesome any time of the year, but felt unreal that it was April 17th.

[michsnowfreak]

12 hours ago, RogueWaves said:

Be honest tho. You wouldn't mind snow if it was July 17th. Once flowers are blooming, snow is not welcomed in my book. At least in November, snow is a pre-season gift of sorts.

 

I mean, I like summer, but yeah, if its gonna snow I wont complain.

[michsnowfreak]

Looks like a solid 2-5" snowfall for southeast Michigan from Detroit-Ann Arbor south to the border, with little to no accumulation for the northern burbs. Storm totals include 5.0" Ann Arbor, 3.4" DTW, 3.3" Wyandotte, 3.0" Morenci.

 

The 3.4" at DTW puts them at 43.2" on the season, so this season goes into the books 0.5" above avg.

 

While a good deal of the snow melted yesterday, you could see the remaining snowcover on this mornings visible sattellite.

[MIstorm97]

6 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Looks like a solid 2-5" snowfall for southeast Michigan from Detroit-Ann Arbor south to the border, with little to no accumulation for the northern burbs. Storm totals include 5.0" Ann Arbor, 3.4" DTW, 3.3" Wyandotte, 3.0" Morenci.

 

The 3.4" at DTW puts them at 43.2" on the season, so this season goes into the books 0.5" above avg.

 

While a good deal of the snow melted yesterday, you could see the remaining snowcover on this mornings visible sattellite.

Nice pictures from yesterday. I should've stuck around there after completing my video work. For once this season, the 696 corridor finally got screwed. Crazy that this season managed to get 0.5" above average after being mostly warm and having problems getting a properly phased storm. That November storm sure helped out a lot.

The 3.4" at DTW is also the first April 3"+ event since April 14th-15th, 2014.

[michsnowfreak]

Stats on the late snowfall at Detroit

 

It ties for the 3rd heaviest calendar day snowfall so late in the season

1.) 6.0" - May 9, 1923

2.) 4.5" - Apr 17, 1921

3.) 3.4" - Apr 17, 2020 & Apr 17, 1983 (popular date I guess lol).

 

In terms of snowstorms, it was 6th heaviest so late in season

1.) 6.0" - May 9, 1923

2.) 5.0" - May 21/22, 1883 (no, that's no typo)

3.) 4.5" - Apr 17, 1921

4.) 4.3" - Apr 23/24, 2005

5.) 3.5" - Apr 19/20, 1943

6.) 3.4" - Apr 17, 2020 & Apr 17, 1983

 

In terms of TOTAL snow April 15th to the end of the season, 2020 ranks 4th highest

1.) 8.3" - 1923

2.) 5.5" - 1943

3.) 5.0" - 1883

4.) 4.7" - 2020