madwx Posted February 18, 2021 Author Share Posted February 18, 2021 The forecasted cloud cover the past 2 days has been a bust here. Full sunshine now after some mid level clouds this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 7 minutes ago, madwx said: The forecasted cloud cover the past 2 days has been a bust here. Full sunshine now after some mid level clouds this morning It's been very light snow with filtered sunshine here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Light snow/mood flakes all night and into the morning put down another 0.2" of fluff. Did keep temperatures in check and our first night above zero since February 4th. Nice dendrites look to be floating down all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 18, 2021 Author Share Posted February 18, 2021 getting some cumulus popping up here for the first time in a while. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 41 minutes ago, madwx said: 41 minutes ago, madwx said: getting some cumulus popping up here for the first time in a while. wow it looks like the CU is developing over non total snow covered (non farm fields) areas where it isn't a total white out like urban area and wooded areas in river valleys look at the IL river valley now , CU developing over darker areas (woods) and moving SE, even its river tributaries like Vermillion and Kankakee same for parts of Rock river or I'm just imagining things? edit: or maybe it's just urban areas. I can make out Peoria with CU streaming SE from it I can also make out smaller cities I think like Lasalle and Ottawa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 13 minutes ago, janetjanet998 said: wow it looks like the CU is developing over non total snow covered (non farm fields) areas where it isn't a total white out like urban area and wooded areas in river valleys look at the IL river valley now , CU developing over darker areas (woods) and moving SE, even its river tributaries like Vermillion and Kankakee same for parts of Rock river or I'm just imagining things? edit: or maybe it's just urban areas. I can make out Peoria with CU streaming SE from it I can also make out smaller cities I think like Lasalle and Ottawa i posted this in another thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 hour ago, A-L-E-K said: i posted this in another thread and you are correct...at least some if not most seems to be smokestacks you can clearly see the Byron nuclear plant SW of RFD edit: also check out the "clear streak" jetting east across the lake east of MKE on your shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciascia Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 A few days late & a dollar short, but after leaving my phone in an Uber on Monday evening (got it back today), I couldn’t post a handful more pictures that my family sent me from Monday & Tuesday. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Today's 19 was the toastiest day since Feb 4th when we actually were above freezing for a bit (34). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Ton of ice on the lake now, and probably just about the max that will be seen this winter.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted February 19, 2021 Author Share Posted February 19, 2021 Actually overperformed by a few degrees today up to 25. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 ORD is up to 45.8” on the season and 20.4” in Feb...Making it the 10th snowiest Feb on record.Shall see how things go the rest of the month.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB WX Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 6 hours ago, Sciascia said: A few days late & a dollar short, but after leaving my phone in an Uber on Monday evening (got it back today), I couldn’t post a handful more pictures that my family sent me from Monday & Tuesday. Best climo.. sorry.. detroit dusters and ohio 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Pretty random and localized 10 minutes of +sn just passed overhead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Nice sunrise today after a little bit more fluffy snow last night. Loving this deep Winter, don't want it to end. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slow poke Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 59 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said: Nice sunrise today after a little bit more fluffy snow last night. Loving this deep Winter, don't want it to end. Great deep winter pictures Josh. Just shows how good Chicago has had it snow wise this month with the pictures that’s been coming out of there. Makes our winter wonderland look kinda weak. You decide where you’re going up north to yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachLB Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Mood dustin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 1 hour ago, slow poke said: Great deep winter pictures Josh. Just shows how good Chicago has had it snow wise this month with the pictures that’s been coming out of there. Makes our winter wonderland look kinda weak. You decide where you’re going up north to yet? Can't say im not jealous of Chicago, but I mean it looks absolutely fantastic here. They were kind of due but it's crazy how the city proper is ground zero over the burbs, rarely will see that happen anywhere let alone lakefront Chicago. Just going to Gaylord area. Some family friends recently moved there so we are going to visit them and thencheck out some elk, which I've never done. Their snow depth is pretty much similar to ours lol. Obviously if I went way up into the Keweenaw I would see more but just not worth it this year. We've had quite a run of deep snow winters here, we've now had pack over a foot deep in.. 2000-01 2002-03 2004-05 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2013-14 2014-15 2017-18 2020-21 (and a lol that we only peaked at 10" in 2007-08 despite almost 80" of snow) 1900-1999 1998-99 1991-92 1984-85 1981-82 1977-78 1974-75 1951-52 1942-43 1929-30 1925-26 1917-18 1911-12 1907-08 1903-04 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Nice big dendrite fluff coming down. Finally some lake enhancement on this side of the lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Deep winter across the Eastern Lakes as well, despite missing every single synoptic event north, south, east, and west this year. My largest synoptic event this year was 6.8" on Christmas day...Just passed 80" on the season. Thank You Lake Erie! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 30 dbz "cell" is missing just to my NW. Stuck in the gap between bands. Happens more than not this year. Don't know why. Hopefully it fills in at some point. Any single one of these showers could drop an inch of fluff in 20 minutes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, frostfern said: 30 dbz "cell" is missing just to my NW. Stuck in the gap between bands. Happens more than not this year. Don't know why. Hopefully it fills in at some point. Any single one of these showers could drop an inch of fluff in 20 minutes. It seems the western side of the lake has more Lake Effect then the Eastern side this year. That has to be a first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Just now, BuffaloWeather said: It seems the western side of the lake has more Lake Effect then the Eastern side this year. That has to be a first. Where I live there just isn't enough fetch to get an extreme event like what happened in Chicago. Normal years have a lot of very light lake effect during cold periods. It will snow 1" per day for a few days straight. The better events are clippers that get bumped from a 3" event on the Wisconsin side to an 8" event here. It happened repeatedly in 2014, but not this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 1 minute ago, frostfern said: Where I live there just isn't enough fetch to get an extreme event like what happened in Chicago. Normal years have a lot of very light lake effect during cold periods. It will snow 1" per day for a few days straight. The better events are clippers that get bumped from a 3" event on the Wisconsin side to an 8" event here. It happened repeatedly in 2014, but not this year. Been a long time since a good clipper pattern. Those are the best for us as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 11 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said: Been a long time since a good clipper pattern. Those are the best for us as well. This right now is a very weak clipper-like system. It's just not a very deep system. Cloud tops at 8k feet max doesn't really do it, unless you're in a location where a band can park over you (which I'm not). The better clipper fronts push the cloud layer up to 15-20k feet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 So a strong LES band formed off 80% frozen lake Erie tonight producing snowfall rates over 3" per. Went chasing as it was just a few miles south of my house. Few Pics. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 My loops from storms this month. I decided to make a 30-frame GFS surface loop from the whole last week because it was such a big cold wave and a big snowstorm for NW Ohio and snowy for many other areas. http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Feb_12_19_2021_GFS_sfc_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Feb_15_2021_radar_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_500mb_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_850mb_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_GFS_sfc_loop.html 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 So with an 80% frozen lake Erie this is what we got overnight around my area. 30" and counting. One of the greatest LES events on a frozen lake in history. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frog Town Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 7 hours ago, Chinook said: My loops from storms this month. I decided to make a 30-frame GFS surface loop from the whole last week because it was such a big cold wave and a big snowstorm for NW Ohio and snowy for many other areas. http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Feb_12_19_2021_GFS_sfc_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Feb_15_2021_radar_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_500mb_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_850mb_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_GFS_sfc_loop.html That's really cool that you created these. Thank You. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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