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2/5 - 2/6 Potential Snow/Ice Storm


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  never started a topic before, but figured this storm could use one, as it's got the potential to be a significant event for our area... went ahead and x-posted the latest gefs/eps MSLP products from the other thread

29 minutes ago, nvck said:

GEFS has trended a little bit stronger, and maybe slightly farther north over the past couple runs, and the EPS has trended stronger, and clustering around Chicago the past several runs. Someone will have to cave soon.... 18z NAM should be interesting, with this system showing up at the end of the run.

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Even though the zr signal is there, I would think that the high off of the Atlantic coast on both the Euro and GFS would need to be positioned more to the northwest in Ontario to keep the feed of cold air coming. There might be some significant ice, but without a prolonged cold air feed, it will probably be short-lived. (I've always wanted to make a map :D)Untitled.png.d81e93f38b9556d6711ab1725f11df69.png

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Chicago NWS

Taken altogether, this leads to an
expectation for highly variable ice accumulation amounts across
our area, ranging from a few hundredths near the Wisconsin state
line to perhaps locally 0.25 to 0.33" in the wake of convective
cores (near/south of the I-88 corridor?). Regardless of the
eventual uneven ice amounts, we will have to issue a Winter
Weather Advisory for some if not all of our area for the
Wednesday evening into early Thursday morning timeframe for
hazardous travel conditions, downed tree limbs, and localized
power outages.
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24 minutes ago, sbnwx85 said:

Hope we can get thundersleet or thunder freezing rain just to say we lived through it.

The March 3, 2023 winter storm locally had a tremendous amount of thunder/lightning reported throughout SE MI. I was able to actual personally experience thundersnow and thundersleet/freezing rain both during that event.

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6 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

The March 3, 2023 winter storm locally had a tremendous amount of thunder/lightning reported throughout SE MI. I was able to actual personally experience thundersnow and thundersleet/freezing rain both during that event.

We had reporters out in the field who heard thundersnow that day but I didn't actually get to hear it myself. I also slept through thundersnow during GHD Blizzard I. I'll bag one, one of these days.

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8 hours ago, IWXwx said:

Even though the zr signal is there, I would think that the high off of the Atlantic coast on both the Euro and GFS would need to be positioned more to the northwest in Ontario to keep the feed of cold air coming. There might be some significant ice, but without a prolonged cold air feed, it will probably be short-lived. (I've always wanted to make a map :D)Untitled.png.d81e93f38b9556d6711ab1725f11df69.png

Agreed but flat shortwave should hold back the warm surge enough to allow for hours of over running though

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4 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

The March 3, 2023 winter storm locally had a tremendous amount of thunder/lightning reported throughout SE MI. I was able to actual personally experience thundersnow and thundersleet/freezing rain both during that event.

I went outside in that too. Was crazy to experience. And the thundersnow before then. Was a great winter for photography.

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14 hours ago, SolidIcewx said:

I went outside in that too. Was crazy to experience. And the thundersnow before then. Was a great winter for photography.

Yes, the winter of 2022-23, mild as it was, was stellar for photography. You had:

Dec 23-24 blizzard conditions

Jan 22 wet snowstorm

Jan 25 wet snowstorm

Feb 22 ice storm

Mar 3 wet snowstorm

Mar 10 wet snowstorm

 

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NAM3 is definitely an outlier in SW ohio, selling widespread 0.1-0.15", but idk if anyone's noticed that it's been way colder than other models these past few weeks. Like, it's got KLUK with a high of 42 on thursday, and the model avg is 50, with HRRR and NBM higher than that.

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1 hour ago, nvck said:

NAM3 is definitely an outlier in SW ohio, selling widespread 0.1-0.15", but idk if anyone's noticed that it's been way colder than other models these past few weeks. Like, it's got KLUK with a high of 42 on thursday, and the model avg is 50, with HRRR and NBM higher than that.

NAM and NAM3km always underdo temps in the winter and early spring.  Especially in dry weather.  They don’t mix the boundary layer enough and seem to overcompensate for snow cover too

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