RCNYILWX Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Well the last few hours were probably the best winter storm conditions locally since 2021 if not before that. Drive home from LOT took about 50 minutes, normally ~20-25. Heaviest snow here I'd say since Feb 9, 2018. A bunch of branches came down when the wake low like feature hit, had to be 40-50 mph gusts. Measured 4" a little after 7am and it was still snowing heavily at the time but since slowed down on the back side of the heavy band. Sent from my SM-G998U using Tapatalk 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 stared in horror at the dry slot when I woke up but we only got down to flurries here and already picking back up. 2.3" with the early morning WAA. the main TROWAL feature should start impacting us shortly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castaway Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 10 minutes ago, totsata said: Also lost power for a few minutes in Buffalo Grove. Power is back on now. Wind is howling….power is flickering again. Glad it came back. Power is still down here in Oak Brook. Going to check the outage map. Hopefully gets up soon. Branches and everything are weighted down. Winds are howling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roardog Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 8 minutes ago, Stebo said: An emoji of a man shrugging. Honestly its so changeable that I don't know what may happen. We need to keep the temp down though before precip falls otherwise we may be in the same situation as last event. The 12Z Nam does look slightly east again FWIW which may not be much but a few miles matter for us on the eastern side of the state, especially you guys down there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Just now, roardog said: The 12Z Nam does look slightly east again FWIW which may not be much but a few miles matter for us on the eastern side of the state, especially you guys down there. Yeah, I will say this, the low that is supposed to come north is definitely on the east end of the guidance right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King James Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Wife couldn’t get out of driveway lol. Snow day! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimillman Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Extremely blustery here. Lots of branches down. Eyeballing about 2” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo6899 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Is anybody in here from ames? This is the second storm in a row that they have been in a killer def band. It's 17 and heavy snow. Wonder what the ratios are out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Unfortunately, the snow crapped out as it headed north overnight. Southern Iowa got a nice 4-6", but only about 1.5" here. Our totals have come down quite a bit. I'm just hoping for a few more inches at this point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castaway Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Seems like a break in the howling now. Was constant in the background for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wegoweather Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 13 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: Some sort of gravity wave type of feature has moved across the metro/NE Illinois, with a brief, but sharp increase in winds. ORD gusted to 55MPH. . Looks like you can see it from ILX Radar. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Looks like you can see it from ILX Radar. From my coworker, one of our lead forecasters (Carlaw):"I think this is one of those subsidence induced high wind events. Acts kinda like a wake low but without the wake low haha. Think my FWD SOO had a nice presentation on it. Would make sense since I don't think this is a dryslot coming in, but just a brief subsided regime."Sent from my SM-G998U using Tapatalk 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 1 hour ago, Powerball said: Was Jim Cantore also live on scene? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 1 minute ago, wegoweather said: Looks like you can see it from ILX Radar. That’s so weird. I can’t really speculate what the source is. Seems related to the brief drying that’s now filling back in. Looks a little sleety initially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King James Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 South Bend looking good on radar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelmantis Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 That first wave of snow was AMAZING. Looks like precip filling back in around the northern half of Illinois. At least 4-5 inches already. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo6899 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 21 minutes ago, Stebo said: Yeah, I will say this, the low that is supposed to come north is definitely on the east end of the guidance right now. Some of the models have a sharp cut off east of 75. Like 10 inches in the hills oakland county, and like an inch of slop east into macomb. Shall be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 yeah tons of branches down in the city, gust impressing still snowing here but accums a slog now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Just now, King James said: South Bend looking good on radar It do be snowing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWMT30 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Weather is soo cool isn't it. The general public wouldn't know what that was or care across the IL region but guys like us are in awe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidIcewx Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Winds are increasing at a good rate right now. Just in the last 45 mins being outside for work I feel they went up 10mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlon62 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Measured about 5" at 8 a.m.Sleet in the lull and now flakes mixing back. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnwx85 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Moderate snow currently. Accumulating nicely. One of two waves on the way this morning. We’ll see how the radar fills in and what temps do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 carys#s with the pivot? looking $$$ there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWMT30 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I am deff going to keep my expectations low here in the Canton, Michigan area for our snow as we all know what can happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 2 minutes ago, RCNYILWX said: From my coworker, one of our lead forecasters (Carlaw): "I think this is one of those subsidence induced high wind events. Acts kinda like a wake low but without the wake low haha. Think my FWD SOO had a nice presentation on it. Would make sense since I don't think this is a dryslot coming in, but just a brief subsided regime." Sent from my SM-G998U using Tapatalk Normally that kind of thing would be caused by a collapsing MCS, but it moved west-to-east which is not the right direction. Its a mysterious thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallica470 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 34 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: Some sort of gravity wave type of feature has moved across the metro/NE Illinois, with a brief, but sharp increase in winds. ORD gusted to 55MPH. . That was wild! I was out with the dogs when that came through. I was wondering what just happened as it seemingly came out of nowhere and caught me and my dogs by surprise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 band that just moved in is cascadia stuff, just pouring down sopping wet flakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveNay Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 57 minutes ago, Sciascia said: Officially in dry slot. A shame seeing as NWS Chicago’s belief was that this was a prime time for 1in/hr in the Rockford area until 11am or so. Hope it fills in in relatively short order. @RCNYILWX Please ask the powers that be don't change the area numbers from slide to slide. I immediately went to area "4" when I looked, but today I am area "1". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciascia Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Dry slot filling in. The longest drought in the history of…today’s storm is over. Let us continue jumping around like a bunch of delirious 10-year-olds. (That’s a Pat Hughes World Series winning radio call reference for those not in the know.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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