Beware the Ides of March (and into the 16th)

[WestMichigan]

55 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Just a trace of snow, sleet, and freezing drizzle here.

Same here.  Dry air ate up virtually all of the precip.

[frostfern]

37 minutes ago, WestMichigan said:

Same here.  Dry air ate up virtually all of the precip.

Single digit dewpoints blowing in from the east wrecked it.  Hope we can at least get a warm rain soon.  It's dry as a bone already.

[Hoosier]

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
231 PM CDT TUE MAR 16 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0300 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG SIBLEY                  40.59N 88.38W
03/15/2021                   FORD               IL   EMERGENCY MNGR

THE FORD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY RELAYED THAT AT LEAST 90 POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED OR PUSHED OVER IN A NARROW ZONE FROM JUST NORTH OF CHATSWORTH TO SIBLEY TO GIBSON CITY TO FISHER, INCLUDING ALONG A CONTINUOUS 4 MILE STRETCH. THE EMERGENCY MANAGER ALSO RELAYED THAT A ROUGHLY 75 FOOT COMMUNICATIONS ANTENNA WAS ALSO BENT OVER, HITTING A NEARBY WATER TOWER. THE DAMAGE WAS BELIEVED TO BE CAUSED BY THE COMBINATION OF ICE ACCUMULATION AND STRONG EAST WINDS, SOMETIME AFTER 2:30 OR 3 PM.

[Chambana]

2 hours ago, Hoosier said:

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
231 PM CDT TUE MAR 16 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0300 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG SIBLEY                  40.59N 88.38W
03/15/2021                   FORD               IL   EMERGENCY MNGR

THE FORD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY RELAYED THAT AT LEAST 90 POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED OR PUSHED OVER IN A NARROW ZONE FROM JUST NORTH OF CHATSWORTH TO SIBLEY TO GIBSON CITY TO FISHER, INCLUDING ALONG A CONTINUOUS 4 MILE STRETCH. THE EMERGENCY MANAGER ALSO RELAYED THAT A ROUGHLY 75 FOOT COMMUNICATIONS ANTENNA WAS ALSO BENT OVER, HITTING A NEARBY WATER TOWER. THE DAMAGE WAS BELIEVED TO BE CAUSED BY THE COMBINATION OF ICE ACCUMULATION AND STRONG EAST WINDS, SOMETIME AFTER 2:30 OR 3 PM.

Wow my brother lives 5 miles from Gibson City and he never mentioned this. Crazy. 

[SchaumburgStormer]

14 hours ago, Chambana said:

Wow my brother lives 5 miles from Gibson City and he never mentioned this. Crazy. 

My cousins are linemen out that way, so I saw via facebook that they had quite a job in front of them. Must have gotten some serious accretion on the elevated surfaces.