1/29/08 NOW: Winter Weather

[Brian Stertz]

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.

 

[Chris Frost]

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.

 

[Bob Schafer]

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.

 

[Josh Richardson]

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.

 

[Craig Maire II]

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!

 

[David Draun]

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.

 

[Brian Stertz]

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

 

[Dan Robinson]

Amazing temperature and wind direction change on either side of this front.

http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/data/metars/2008012920_metars_evv.gif

 

[David Draun]

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.

Now at NIU:

33F (down from 48F at the top of the hour)
WSW 12 G31
Light Fog/Mist

 

[Joel Wright]

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.

 

[Craig Maire II]

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

 

[Jarrod Cook]

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!

 

[Joel Wright]

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!

 

[Danny Neal]

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!

 

[Joel Wright]

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.