• 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.

1/29/08 NOW: Winter Weather

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Front went through before dawn and now getting a pretty good burst of snow here in Overland Park KS (KC suburb). Snowflakes are pretty small in size so it may take a prolonged snowfall to start getting any accumulation this morning.
 
Blizzard-like out here on campus today. After being spoiled yesterday with 60+ temps today is just miserable. Im actually going to be dreading the walk across campus to make it to my Atmosperic lecture. It's days like today that make me feel like spring will never come. From 64 to 19 in less than 24 hours. When I looked at the forecast last night models showed that the front wasn't supposed to move through until after noon. Ah well it's January and I'm in Kansas and not Hawaii.
 
We had strong winds yesterday in SE CO with a reported gust of 54 mph at Lamar at 1953Z.

http://www.met.utah.edu/cgi-bin/roman/meso_base.cgi?&unit=0&time=GMT&stn=klaa

This resulted in blowing dust up to about 3000 feet in altitude (my estimate), which persisted for about an hour. I would estimate visibility was down to about one mile. After a high T of 63 yesterday, our low was 21 this morning.

I didn't get any pics. My bad. I swear it'll never happen again.
 
Conditions have been deteriorating all morning here as well of course. Visibility is now down to .25 mi in city limits with a decent snow falling at the moment. Out at the airport we have sustained winds of around 30 mph gusting to near 40 mph. Blizzard warning has now been add for our northern tier counties of the DMX forecast area.
 
Still cold and crappy here, winds have been gusting to probably 45 mph (should have brought my new anemometer to work), it's currently 5F and it's not snowing yet. Still waiting for my pizza to get here! Pizza man must have gotten blown away! :D
 
Still warm here in Dekalb west of the big-nasty Arctic front. Looking for FROPA here in probably an hour or so. Couple of boomers starting to fire SW of here moving NE. One or two SVR warned cells are out there too. It would be cool to get clipped by one of them before the snow and wind hit. I got my blinds open and am looking out the window to watch the dramatic change.
 
Snow update

Well just finished up with a bout of S+/BS and now back down to lower end S/BS. We have a solid 1" of snow and looks like we may end up with another 1/2" before it winds down this afternoon. Roads are partially snow covered...pretty impressive since we were 52 degrees at 6am this morning here. And to look east and see STL at 70 degrees...all I can say is WOW
 
LOL, two formerly-hibernating insects; a rather large fly, and an Asian ladybug have crawled out of the radiator in my room and are perched on the screen. I closed the storm window trapping them and will now watch them freeze to death. :p

Now at NIU:

33F (down from 48F at the top of the hour)
WSW 12 G31
Light Fog/Mist
 
It touched 50 at 9:30 this morning, but now it's already down to 13 and dropping fast. Pretty impressive drop in less than six hours. Not sure what the windchill is but it's gotta be approaching zero.

Blizzard warning is in effect. Radar returns are fairly sparce. Barely got a dusting of snow. Looks like the blizzard warning will be laughed at as previously thought.
 
Receiving light to moderate snow with strong wind gusts right now lowering visibilities, temp is 1F. I'll be getting off work soon and have to take highway 20 home :eek:
 
Blizzard warning is in effect. Radar returns are fairly sparce. Barely got a dusting of snow. Looks like the blizzard warning will be laughed at as previously thought.

Looks like you're right, as the BZW has been cancelled.

The temperature changes have been fascinating with this system. We've gone from 53 at 11 am to 22 at 3 PM. I was watching some private wx station data earlier and some sites were dropping 1 degree/minute for 10 mins or longer!
 
Yeah the St. Louis International Airport observation at noon had them at 70 degrees! At the 3pm ob it had dropped to 35! Windchills in the teens! That's freaking amazing man. Went from a springlike airmass with even the potential for tornadic thunderstorms, to an all out arctic airmass in three hours.

At noon while it was 70 in St. Louis, the windchill in Huron South Dakota was at -22!
 
I am so gonna get mine in the next twenty minutes.....47 at my house, 40 at NWS LOT (20 miles from my home) 32 in Morris (40 miles from my home) and then a balmy 12 in the Quad Cities! Wow. Got my windows open waiting for that icy blast from the west!
 
Down to 21 in St. Louis now, with a windchill of 2. So essentially the way it feels outside has dropped almost 70 degrees in five hours.

Strong winds all over too. 55mph wind gust at the top of the hour at St. Louis and the DVN station.
 
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