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January 19-21 MW/GL/OV Storm Observation Thread


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  On 1/20/2011 at 11:35 PM, Chicago WX said:

2.2", which puts us north of 30" for the season. 40" or bust.

I see there could be gusts to 30MPH tonight/overnight...wouldn't want to be out in the rural areas tonight with this powder blowing around.

1.75" for this system. I am lagging a bit behind at 17.05" for the season. :(

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I have never seen pixie dust accumulate as well as it has today. We are continuing to get pretty heavy pixie dust showers as I would describe them (even though radar echoes are extremely weak) and it continues to accumulate quite efficiently. I would guess we are probably over 6 inches now, but haven't measured in a while.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 1:21 AM, TheWeatherPimp said:

.33 liquid here so far, so awesome ratios.

Yea, we just had all pixie dust, with no big flakes at all. Got right around 4" still snowing though.. I figured ratios would be better than they have here today. Had moderate snow all day, but it's just so fine it takes forever to accumulate.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 1:25 AM, dilly84 said:

Yea, we just had all pixie dust, with no big flakes at all. Got right around 4" still snowing though.. I figured ratios would be better than they have here today. Had moderate snow all day, but it's just so fine it takes forever to accumulate.

We had about 4-5 hours or moderate to heavy snow with large flakes.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 1:34 AM, TheWeatherPimp said:

We had about 4-5 hours or moderate to heavy snow with large flakes.

Yea that'll do it lol. I was telling a friend of mine if we had gotten big flakes instead of all the fine stuff we'd probably have 7" or more.. Couldnt be much better than 10:1 maybe 11 or 12:1 But it's just like dust. I prefer the heavy wet snow myself. The kind that plasters everything with snow.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 2:36 AM, TheWeatherPimp said:

pics

Man you could really have a nice shot if you like squated and took the same pic as that first one, but get the whole building name in it and less blurry. That'd be a really nice pic. Take some shots of the trees and stuff at inester park and the ivester house. I bet you could get some really nice shots there.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 4:04 AM, dmc76 said:

WOW your snow pack to a hit the other day :(

Yep on average its a 3-inch glacial mass with a fresh covering now. We went from having 6" of powder with ~0.5" water content to 3" of glacier with ~0.6" water content. One good thing is it wont be BUDGING for a while, and it makes a good base. Whats your depth up there?

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  On 1/21/2011 at 4:10 AM, michsnowfreak said:

Yep on average its a 3-inch glacial mass with a fresh covering now. We went from having 6" of powder with ~0.5" water content to 3" of glacier with ~0.6" water content. One good thing is it wont be BUDGING for a while, and it makes a good base. Whats your depth up there?

thats what I was telling a buddy of mine. Its there to stay for a while now. Its "frozen" snow

about 4" maybe more after tonights round

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  On 1/21/2011 at 4:11 AM, dmc76 said:

thats what I was telling a buddy of mine. Its there to stay for a while now. Its "frozen" snow

about 4" maybe more after tonights round

What was it before the rain Tuesday? Im wondering if we had a little more depth to start but lost more. Have some 2" spots and some 4" spots, overall 3" average. Still lots of big snowbanks that you can actually stand on top of too. Also I noticed in some of the open, hilly areas near DTW where lots of drifting took place last week there are bare spots and deep 1-2 foot drifts that are so waterlogged/frozen they would probably suck you in like quicksand.

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  On 1/21/2011 at 4:16 AM, michsnowfreak said:

What was it before the rain Tuesday? Im wondering if we had a little more depth to start but lost more. Have some 2" spots and some 4" spots, overall 3" average. Still lots of big snowbanks that you can actually stand on top of too. Also I noticed in some of the open, hilly areas near DTW where lots of drifting took place last week there are bare spots and deep 1-2 foot drifts that are so waterlogged/frozen they would probably suck you in like quicksand.

It was about 6" we lost couple inches on Monday...

check out that band in northern oakland :wub:

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  On 1/21/2011 at 5:43 AM, ukrocks said:

2.0 inches of snow here! Hoping the storm next week can be the biggie here. Hoping I can have a little snow pack for a while. And hoping my professors cancel classes tomorrow since I know the University won't close even though everything else is closed and shut down.

congrats. Only got 4" up here snow depth of 5" so not doing too much better lol..

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