Cary67 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Took my son to soccer practice this evening. Lots of blowing and drifting on Rt.14 outside of Crystal Lake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Our event page for the snow squall:https://www.weather.gov/lot/2021jan19Includes a short presentation put together by one of our forecasters that I tweaked for public consumption. Really fascinating event. Looking back, it's clear that at a busier time of day we would've needed to issue our first SQW, and there was some consideration put toward it as the event unfolded. The last snow squall event of this magnitude I can recall, brief whiteouts and roads going to trash, was late January 2014 with an Arctic front. And multiple instances of thundersnow associated with a Clipper type system is rare, if I'm not missing any events, I think have to go back to December 2010 for that in the LOT CWA. Disappointed I missed out on personally experiencing impacts where I live, but glad others got to experience this unique event, and was cool to look back on again while putting together the event page. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purduewx80 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 In case you missed it, the PDF in Ricky’s link mentions an airline official at ORD reported 1” of accum in 10 minutes. 6”/hr rates are extraordinarily rare around here and are usually observed in areas with forced orographic lift or in Nor’easters where you have moisture transport off the Gulf Stream and strong frontogenesis. In this case it was more the forced ascent caused by that compact vort in an atmosphere w/ steep low-level lapse rates centered in the DGZ. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Melty melty today with the clear skies and temps approaching 40. Hoping we get lucky over the weekend to put some solid snowcover down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McHenrySnow Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Real scorcher today. Lots of snowmelt. Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 9 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said: Real scorcher today. Lots of snowmelt. Shame. Yep most is gone here now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Been getting steady light snow as forecasted since around 2:30pm. Probably averaged a half inch an hour since onset. 4-5” event total seems a lock based on radar trends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Snow started around 9 here. A dusting on the ground already 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Radar doesn’t look bad. Wouldn’t be surprised to pick up an inch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 As of midnight MSP was reporting 5.3” we should finish around 6” which is on the higher end of guidance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 1 hour ago, OrdIowPitMsp said: As of midnight MSP was reporting 5.3” we should finish around 6” which is on the higher end of guidance. You guys are rockin this winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 didn't even squeeze a DAB- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 T both at ORD and here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 6 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said: As of midnight MSP was reporting 5.3” we should finish around 6” which is on the higher end of guidance. And it seems like so much work and attention for the Mon.-Tue system may yield similar results across LOT. You quietly keep racking up the totals.DAB here overnight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 T here, returns must’ve fallen apart or it was Virga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 12 minutes ago, mimillman said: T here, returns must’ve fallen apart or it was Virga It was mostly virga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 2 hours ago, Cary67 said: And it seems like so much work and attention for the Mon.-Tue system may yield similar results across LOT. You quietly keep racking up the totals.DAB here overnight It’s MSP, snow capital of the world, until beavis moves there 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McHenrySnow Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 0.25" here this morning, all falling from around 8 to 9 am. Wasn't expecting a big total, by any means, but the models had been ticking up all day yesterday. Dry air won out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 9 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said: 0.25" here this morning, all falling from around 8 to 9 am. Wasn't expecting a big total, by any means, but the models had been ticking up all day yesterday. Dry air won out. Yeah, sucks. At one point it looked like a 2-3” snowfall. Maybe a silver lining is that this precursor wave helped moisten the column for the upcoming storm. Devil’s advocate says that the models should already be accounting for this, yet they are still trending weaker. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIstorm97 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Heavy snow here along 696. Fair amount of accidents today. Good rippage rn...probably will be better than Monday night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Another burst of snow very early this morning boosted my wave 1 total to 2.6". That is a nice total considering it had been crapping out on the models and even once it began the radar looked like a total dud. Fortunately, the tail juiced up and passed over east-central IA. My area ended up being the winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeselandSkies Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Yeah not impressed. Roads/parking lot/parked cars are mostly clear. Was anticipating a 2-3"er at some point this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 2 hours ago, MIstorm97 said: Heavy snow here along 696. Fair amount of accidents today. Good rippage rn...probably will be better than Monday night I posted in the January thread, lol I forgot this is the place to post that stuff now haha. We had 0.6" here. DTW 0.5". Snow came down heavy for a time in that narrow band. It hugged Detroits immediate northern suburbs. It seemed like for much of Southeast Michigan it was a general half inch snowfall give or take a few tenths but in that band including Detroit, Livonia, Novi, Royal Oak etc it appears 2-3" fell. Definitely more than forecast. I am assuming with the main event tomorrow night it will be similar in that bans may develop but good luck pinning down where ahead of time. how much did you end up with today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIstorm97 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 1 hour ago, michsnowfreak said: I posted in the January thread, lol I forgot this is the place to post that stuff now haha. We had 0.6" here. DTW 0.5". Snow came down heavy for a time in that narrow band. It hugged Detroits immediate northern suburbs. It seemed like for much of Southeast Michigan it was a general half inch snowfall give or take a few tenths but in that band including Detroit, Livonia, Novi, Royal Oak etc it appears 2-3" fell. Definitely more than forecast. I am assuming with the main event tomorrow night it will be similar in that bans may develop but good luck pinning down where ahead of time. how much did you end up with today? Picked up 2.8” of snow on the snow board. Nice overachiever today. There were even a few 3-4” reports where banding was the most persistent today. The snow was very fluffy, a rare sight this season. That band the hung on to the 96/696 corridor was ripping for a while. I’m now up to 8.1” this month and 18.9” this season. Feels like we’re cheating our way to a normal January. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 34 minutes ago, MIstorm97 said: Picked up 2.8” of snow on the snow board. Nice overachiever today. There were even a few 3-4” reports where banding was the most persistent today. The snow was very fluffy, a rare sight this season. That band the hung on to the 96/696 corridor was ripping for a while. I’m now up to 8.1” this month and 18.9” this season. Feels like we’re cheating our way to a normal January. I'm at 17.2" on the season but only 3.4" in January! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIstorm97 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 49 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said: I'm at 17.2" on the season but only 3.4" in January! This wave certainly helped bump up the January total here haha, and there were a couple other days were we did a little better than you and DTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorePunch Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Picked up roughly 2.5” of snow this afternoon. Definitely a nice treat. Some solid rates as well. Hopefully we add a few more inches come tomorrow night into Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherMonger Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Snow/flurries started here about 10 minutes ago. If we can manage 1.4" it would be the biggest single day snow of the season. Pretty sad saying that on January 27th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 1 hour ago, WeatherMonger said: Snow/flurries started here about 10 minutes ago. If we can manage 1.4" it would be the biggest single day snow of the season. Pretty sad saying that on January 27th as of Midnight PIA officially had 7.1 this season(exactly 50% to date after today is factored in ) and you 6.1 you could pass us up today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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