cyclone77 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 7 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said: Way way less sleet, but way more freezing rain accretion. Judging by storm motion, my area would follow that same general SW to NE line. So I assume somewhere to the NW of me got your epic sleet storm as well. The thing about it was the rate at which it fell. I've experienced a 1" sleet storm before, but it took place over the course of many hours, not 30 or so minutes. It was just gushing kind of like a severe hail storm but with ice pellets. EDIT: DVN snow total 9.1". Sleet is incorporated into the snow total so I'm guessing a decent amount of that is sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Raining/freezing rain fairly hard now with breezy conditions. This would be trouble if it were a bit colder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Multiple sites in northern IL are reporting freezing rain with temps above freezing. I have noticed that before. Not sure why it happens. I wonder if it's more common when dews are a few degrees below freezing, which is the case right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackstraw Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Be interesting to see where the confluence zone sets up between the 2 waves. Couple models were pinstriping some decent snow just north of it yesterday morning. My temps have been actually dropping as opposed to rising as forecasted. Been at 32 most of the day now down to 29 and 0 precip thus far. Precip shield is well N/NW still. Hey man, I can dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluoronium Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 31 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Multiple sites in northern IL are reporting freezing rain with temps above freezing. I have noticed that before. Not sure why it happens. I wonder if it's more common when dews are a few degrees below freezing, which is the case right now. Maybe they report it as freezing rain if the wet bulb temperature is below freezing. 34F and rain again here. Futility records in play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackstraw Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 42 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Multiple sites in northern IL are reporting freezing rain with temps above freezing. I have noticed that before. Not sure why it happens. I wonder if it's more common when dews are a few degrees below freezing, which is the case right now. That would make sense. Not sure how cold for how long they were up there but hard surface temps would lag behind air temp increases also, especially if air temps were jumping up quickly. We had some decent ice here about 3 years ago with the air temp around 27 over the dark hours rising to 35 by early morning when the precip hit. Had a nice glaze over everything by noon with a temp, and the sun, of around 35-36 before it crashed. It was weird because the glaze all thawed at once on a sunny afternoon and just started falling off the trees all at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Managed a respectable glaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Ended up with ~0.20” ice on top of the 3.4” of snow.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener poster Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 About half an inch to freshen up the existing snow. Currently 27 and will creep up to upper 30s this afternoon. Sub freezing overnight. Should be good for the ice pack on our roads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 off the schneid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Received 2.5” in Minneapolis which puts us at 30.4” on the season with a current snow depth of 8-9” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Received 3.5"snow along with .3" ice. Golden 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natester Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 12z NAM 12k came in slower, has the freezing rain arriving in Cedar Rapids after noon on Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoof Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 7.0" Final Total . Approx 1.25"/hr for about 3 hours earlier at the peak. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftfeuchtigkeit Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 5.7" total. Not bad, and agree with others Canadian model did a great job. 2 different 5+" snowfalls in December is a good thing. I got 8" with the earlier Dec. storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlon62 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 12z NAM 12k came in slower, has the freezing rain arriving in Cedar Rapids after noon on Friday.How 'bout the sleet?Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McHenrySnow Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 15 minutes ago, Natester said: 12z NAM 12k came in slower, has the freezing rain arriving in Cedar Rapids after noon on Friday. I'm sure you'll manage another 8". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikcarsky Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Central WI has been the dry slot hot spot these last few storms. Where I'm staying the holidays (Stevens Point area) this storm dropped 1.5". At least with Sunday's 2" the ground is solidly white now, sorely needed after a depressing brown Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 round 2 gonna end up another duster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 That stuff was cement sludge to shovel this morning. Back aching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 53 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said: I'm sure you'll manage another 8". If so, good for the Iowa peeps. Everyone cashes in eventually. Ours just might have been 2014. Hope you we're around for it.. And round 2 always was a period of ice to rain. On to mid January thereafter it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 RGEM/GEM/UKMET are all well SE for the next system. Euro has been bumping SE. Ride it. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 19 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: RGEM/GEM/UKMET are all well SE for the next system. Euro has been bumping SE. Ride it. . Rantoul slammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McHenrySnow Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 1 minute ago, Cary67 said: Rantoul slammer As far as I'm concerned, the NAM was a slam dunk here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 3 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said: As far as I'm concerned, the NAM was a slam dunk here. This winter along with several recent ones lack of cold air available is a problem. Foraging and rationing of cold air is no way to have a successful winter. NAM depictions of WAA ruling the day will be the gorilla in the corner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 As far as I'm concerned, the NAM was a slam dunk here. Micro screw zone doesn’t mean it was right. GEM was clearly the best overall. . 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 18 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said: As far as I'm concerned, the NAM was a slam dunk here. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 GFS looks a bit more wintery for us (Chicago area) in round 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McHenrySnow Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 26 minutes ago, Cary67 said: This winter along with several recent ones lack of cold air available is a problem. Foraging and rationing of cold air is no way to have a successful winter. NAM depictions of WAA ruling the day will be the gorilla in the corner And that's been the story of the past several winters. On the bright side about all the sleet we got, it melts much slower than snow. lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 FWIW...looks like the Canadian isn't far off from my Cape Girardeau-Indy- Toledo track. No meteorology involved ;gut feeling,wishcasting, and over 40 years of pure weenieism is all I bring to the table. Unfortunaetly, no cold air to be had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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