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John Vandehei
EF2
Twister Data and College of DuPage are a few of the sites that I get model data from. Right now, the model is only showing about .3 to .4 inches of liquid equivalent for my location. However, snowfall amounts can often be quite localized, depending on how the snow bands set up. Way too localized for the models to resolve. Could end up with two inches here, or more than six if a snow band parks over my area for any extended length of time.
josh_4184
According to intellicast radar, the cold air is starting to overrun the warm sector is the soutwest corner of Michigan
rdale
EF5
It's not overrunning - it's pushing the warm air out. You'll notice that better in a current conditions plot, that's not what radar would indicate.
MatthewCarman
It is 12:00 and still snowing in central Iowa. While the wind is blowing most of it around the radar shows it building off to the west. With the low passed us I thought all of the snow would be over but I was wrong.
Edit: Heavy snow falling right now where I live in Iowa.
Edit 2: I think a Met on the weather Chanel said this was the worst snow storm Iowa has seen in 13 years. Several interstates are now shut down and travel is not recommended across the state.
Edit: Heavy snow falling right now where I live in Iowa.
Edit 2: I think a Met on the weather Chanel said this was the worst snow storm Iowa has seen in 13 years. Several interstates are now shut down and travel is not recommended across the state.
Jeremy Den Hartog
Definitely the snow in central Iowa is getting its act together again. While it has stopped snowing here in southern Minnesota its still terrible outside...and its even worse in Iowa and Wisconsin (Madison area with reports of 17+ inches
)Mike Hollingshead
Brrrrr! 5 out and winds still gusting over 30mph. I woke up early, and looked out and could see the sky was going to be fairly clear. Then as the sun got closer, I noticed a big sun pillar above the horizon. Great, like I'm able to get out of town and away from trees and crap anyway. There's a wall of 2 feet deep snow, about 6 feet long behind my car. That's going to be there a while. Glad I didn't try to get it out, as it would have gotten stuck in town shortly thereafter anyway.
Sun gets to the horizon and I can see huge, bright, colorful sundogs. Doh, gotta get out somewhere! Kept thinking, I can walk somewhere, but every direction is a long ways to find a good opening. Wound up walking probably almost a half mile to the bowling alley on the edge of town. Surely people wondered what in the hell was wrong with me, at least no one offered a ride, saving a dumb explanation that I was just wanting to take some pictures. Windchill was around -20F now with wind still gusting over 40 at the time. I just feared the show I'd miss if I didn't make the trek. Turned out it wasn't exactly worth the walk. Close. It actually got better as I got back home.
Blowing snow and sun dogs at the bowling alley.
Bright circumzenithal arc above the sundogs, now back home across the street. The bad thing about these arcs is how rapidly they change vividness, as "clouds" and ice crystals flow on by. It's best to wait till you get cloud you can see, and a bit after it passes where the arc is. They are VERY close to being 90 degrees straight up above your head. People will see the big bright sundogs and never even notice something like that up above, it's up so much. But getting them when they are at their brightest requires constantly watching the things. I'd get inside, look up out the window and see it going crazy bright and colorful(they are the most vivid of all arcs) and by the time I'd get out there to shoot it, it'd be dimmed back down some again. That got old. Glad the sun is up higher now and they are all just faint.
Funny part of the morning was my 2 cats. My basement apartment windows are right on the ground and they love to sit up on the shelf thing and look outside. Well all they could see was a wall of snow 2 feet, right up against the glass. Over and over they'd keep getting up there and just sort of stair at the snow. It was a chore and a half removing that for them.
Sun gets to the horizon and I can see huge, bright, colorful sundogs. Doh, gotta get out somewhere! Kept thinking, I can walk somewhere, but every direction is a long ways to find a good opening. Wound up walking probably almost a half mile to the bowling alley on the edge of town. Surely people wondered what in the hell was wrong with me, at least no one offered a ride, saving a dumb explanation that I was just wanting to take some pictures. Windchill was around -20F now with wind still gusting over 40 at the time. I just feared the show I'd miss if I didn't make the trek. Turned out it wasn't exactly worth the walk. Close. It actually got better as I got back home.
Blowing snow and sun dogs at the bowling alley.
Bright circumzenithal arc above the sundogs, now back home across the street. The bad thing about these arcs is how rapidly they change vividness, as "clouds" and ice crystals flow on by. It's best to wait till you get cloud you can see, and a bit after it passes where the arc is. They are VERY close to being 90 degrees straight up above your head. People will see the big bright sundogs and never even notice something like that up above, it's up so much. But getting them when they are at their brightest requires constantly watching the things. I'd get inside, look up out the window and see it going crazy bright and colorful(they are the most vivid of all arcs) and by the time I'd get out there to shoot it, it'd be dimmed back down some again. That got old. Glad the sun is up higher now and they are all just faint.
Funny part of the morning was my 2 cats. My basement apartment windows are right on the ground and they love to sit up on the shelf thing and look outside. Well all they could see was a wall of snow 2 feet, right up against the glass. Over and over they'd keep getting up there and just sort of stair at the snow. It was a chore and a half removing that for them.
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MatthewCarman
Definitely the snow in central Iowa is getting its act together again. While it has stopped snowing here in southern Minnesota its still terrible outside...and its even worse in Iowa and Wisconsin (Madison area with reports of 17+ inches
That is nothing compared to parts of the Rocky Mountains. Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado has reported 52" on the ground.
rdale
EF5
There's a phenomenal different between snowfall in ski areas of the Rockies vs the interstates of Iowa. It is "not" nothing.
josh_4184
Rob, not to change the subject but when did you leave WLNS, I used to like your forrecasting, I see you didn't go to WILX,ect. Not tyring to be personal but I miss having a knowledgable winter weather forecaster on T.V. Hence why I went to the Internet.
Chris Heater
EF3
Thought the snow was supposed to be over by now but I guess not. We've had some spurts here (such as around 9am this morning) with moderate to heavy snow. Light accumulation. If it keeps this up for several more hours we may see an inch 
Andrew Pritchard
EF5
The CAA kicking up some intense snow showers over northern Illinois has been more intense than anything we saw yesterday as far as visibility goes. Like I had hoped we got a nice powder layer on top of the 6 inches of cement that coupled with these snow bursts and 40 mph gusts have created some nice low visibility conditions over the area. Walked up to campus and shot some photos and video of the students walking to their exams in the sideways snow that I'll throw up later.
John Vandehei
EF2
I wasn't too far off. The heavier snows set up south of I-96 and extended southward across I-94. Picked up 7 inches at my location.
josh_4184
We picked up about 4-5 inches where I live just west of Jackson, their were a couple strong bands that pushed through. Although with the strong winds 40-50mph gusts their has been heavy drifting, I had about 1ft 1/2 snowdrift between are cars and had nothing on the other side.
jshields
NEW DECEMBER RECORD SEAL LEVEL PRESSURE RECPRDED AT GRAND RAPIDS, MI
They recorded a pressure of 28.86 in!! this breaks the record from 1965. All time record there is 28.72in.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=grr&storyid=44150&source=0
They recorded a pressure of 28.86 in!! this breaks the record from 1965. All time record there is 28.72in.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=grr&storyid=44150&source=0
