magoos0728 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Noticeable difference in air temps between 9 am and now in NW Burbs. Mood flakes and cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 8 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said: How things might go tonight through tomorrow night when the winds max out. Remember this event well, January 26, 2014. Shows that not much snow is needed for truly gnarly conditions. We don't often get northern Plains weather (with notable exception of 2013-14 and 14-15 winters), but when it happens, the wide open areas outside of the heart of the Chicago metro are prime for blizzard conditions and significant drifting. The morning AFD update from my office notes that consideration is still being given to upgrading a larger portion of the area to a Blizzard Warning. Think that there's likely to be large sections of north south roads, including some of the interstates, shut down due to blowing and drifting snow tonight through tomorrow night. Hope most people don't chance driving in those conditions. Sent from my SM-G998U using Tapatalk If the 2-4" part was left out of that writeup, there's no way that most people would think that kind of mess could happen from that amount of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Mood flakes here and decent dendrites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian D Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 4" here in town this morning. Very cold at -2. High of 5 at midnight. Winds not too bad yet. Just some gusts up to 30-35 blowing the snow around a little. Will be worse starting later tonight thru Sat night as things develop more. They do have a Blizzard warning for me (the Arrowhead in general) starting this evening into Sun am for winds up to 60, but, honestly, I think that'll be more for areas up the shore from me. The terrain there is much steeper, and it's common for strong down-sloping winds to occur there. NWS Duluth even talked about gravity well conditions that can happen there, in the past. Interesting stuff. Driving Hwy 61 along the shore will be a bad idea the next few days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 still snowing here. down to 3 degrees F. Wind chill in the negative teens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Wind is starting to pick up and temps are dropping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaves Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 26 minutes ago, Owensnow said: not really 3am to 5pm or so Was an insider ref to SEMI poster complaints with the New Years Eve '13 storm, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 50 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said: 4 inches total here despite 0.47" liquid. That is only about an 8.5 to 1 ratio. I expected much higher than that given the cold atmosphere. The flake size was quite small throughout. With the wind I would expect low ratios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homedis Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Super decent sized flakes here in N Cook County w dusting on the ground already. Ready to b buried in 5" of snow 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Vis down to 1/2 mil at DKB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, RogueWaves said: Was an insider ref to SEMI poster complaints with the New Years Eve '13 storm, lol Nothing could go wrong that Winter lol (not thst there werent, amazingly, the usual complainers). We had a long duration 11" snowstorm December 31st to January 2nd, then a short duration 11" snowstorm January 5/6th. And it was only the beginning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaves Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 2 or 3 yrs back, MR models flashed a 979 mb SLP east of Detroit. I remember somebody in here @Stebo ? commenting how that basically never happens and ofc it promptly vanished the next run. Enter the non-fantasy range run GFS Psst - and it deepens 10 more mb's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Snow melting on contact and probably still a few more hours until temp drops below freezing here. Could be a nasty thin layer of ice underneath for central/eastern cwa as LOT has alluded to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveNay Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 1 minute ago, RogueWaves said: 2 or 3 yrs back, MR models flashed a 979 mb SLP east of Detroit. I remember somebody in here @Stebo ? commenting how that basically never happens and ofc it promptly vanished the next run. Enter the non-fantasy range run GFS Has Jim Cantore been saying "Bombogenisis" every third word? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laferri2 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 6 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said: Nothing could go wrong that Winter lol (not thst there werent, amazingly, the usual complainers). We had a long duration 11" snowstorm December 31st to January 2nd, then a short duration 11" snowstorm January 5/6th. And it was only the beginning. The entire winter 2013-2014 was incredible. If I recall correctly we didn't have a high above freezing from late January through April. I had snow cover in my yard from New Year's through the last week of April and some of the parking lots had snowpiles until the end of May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 obv the bomb was a bust, but at least the only fun part of the storm is arriving at prime time for us in chicago 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaves Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 5 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: obv the bomb was a bust, but at least the only fun part of the storm is arriving at prime time for us in chicago Detroit bomb this time, thx Edit - Deepens 14 mb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 MLI mod snow at 0 degrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 Started snowing here at home around 9:30AM. Only a tenth or so of snowfall accumulation so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 5 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: obv the bomb was a bust, but at least the only fun part of the storm is arriving at prime time for us in chicago Hard to comprehend what it would have been like if the higher end model runs panned out in the area. Basically a colder/more dangerous version of GHD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveNay Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 4 minutes ago, WaryWarren said: wind-driven pixie dust in Sycamore. Probably all it's gonna be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 21 minutes ago, laferri2 said: The entire winter 2013-2014 was incredible. If I recall correctly we didn't have a high above freezing from late January through April. I had snow cover in my yard from New Year's through the last week of April and some of the parking lots had snowpiles until the end of May. Yup. It was incredible. Even once the snow did melt in April the remnant piles were like something you would see up North by that time of year. And actually, although the main show started New Year's, don't forget snow was actually on the ground since December 8th. We had a horribly timed melt off down to patchy trace snow depth December 23rd through 25th and again the 28th through 30th, but we actually never were completely bare ground since December 7th. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Snowing here. Maybe 0.5" down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuanis Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 There are snowflakes. They are sticking a bit. Temp has started falling. Radar looks putrid. Seems inevitable that we end up with less than 2” of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidIcewx Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 DTX afd with nothing about amounts. Still not thinking of sustainable blizzard conditions is likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owensnow Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said: DTX afd with nothing about amounts. Still not thinking of sustainable blizzard conditions is likely. it has been well modeled by at least three different models? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidIcewx Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, Owensnow said: it has been well modeled by at least three different models? Gut tells me if it bombs and goes over Lake Erie we will be in for it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owensnow Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Just now, SolidIcewx said: Gut tells me if it bombs and goes over Lake Erie we will be in for it it seriously looks like we’re going to get the worst of the bruising down here in the south east corner of Michigan and southwestern Ontario across the lake into Toledo and northern OH I mean apart from the lake effect on the west side of Michigan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchaumburgStormer Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Nice flakes under the heavier returns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidIcewx Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, Owensnow said: it seriously looks like we’re going to get the worst of the bruising down here in the south east corner of Michigan and southwestern Ontario across the lake into Toledo and northern OH I mean apart from the lake effect on the west side of Michigan Im normally in the overdone crowd but feel this time it’s a tad under done. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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