• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

1/21/08 NOW: MN/IA/WI Winter Storm

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In Rochester, MN, now in heavy snow. Radar is showing a convergence line from Fairmont, MN, to LaCrosse, WI, likely to persist for several more hours. The area forecast has been successively upped from flurries to 1" to 1"-3" to 3"-5" to ??? Wouldn't be surprised to see a surprise foot or more when all's done late tonight.

Temps are in the mid-single digits with an east wind. Even growing up in eastern MA and central VT I've seldom seen such heavy, meaty snow with single-digit ground temps. Woowoo.:p
 
Have had about 2.5" here so far. Bands of moderate snow are consistently redeveloping just west of me near the Quad Cities and "training" so to speak over my immediate area. Models indicate maybe another 2-3" by later tonight.
 
5" here in Janesville so far. Lake enhancement in conjunction with a zone of strong isentropic lift just north of Milwaukee is causing significantly higher snowfall rates, with over 12" expected by the AM hours.
 
Pushing 5" now. The moderate to heavy snow continues to almost backbuild in eastern IA and move right over me. Hell, I'm starting to think we may get 7-8" now. This was originally supposed to be a 2-4" event lol.
 
Well, ended up with almost 8" out of that interesting little system last night. (I realize this is a "NOW" thread, but this system's not worth a "reports" thread IMO). We were only forecasted by the NWS to get 2-4" originally. Although it's not really their fault as the models severely under-forecasted QPF. Almost all of the models forecasted QPF in the 0.20-0.30" range. Which, when taking into consideration the ~20:1 snow to water ratio would fluff up to about 4-6". Amounts over 7" were fairly common across much of northern IL and into southern WI.

It's always nice to see an event become something more than what was predicted instead of the other way around. It seems like the big systems that we track for up to a week out have a tendency to disappoint, whereas the meager storms sometimes surprise us with more than was forecasted by the models.
 
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