12/08/2009-12/09/2009 Winter Storm

[Chris Heater]

I'm noticing, per Intellicast radar, the snow advancing south towards me. If we wind up getting snow that would be a bit unexpected this early. It wasn't supposed to switchover till Wednesday morning. Something i'll be watching

 

[Chris Carter]

Winds kicking up in Eastern Nebraska. Here in Lincoln its 25mph, gusts to 32.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

I'm noticing, per Intellicast radar, the snow advancing south towards me. If we wind up getting snow that would be a bit unexpected this early. It wasn't supposed to switchover till Wednesday morning. Something i'll be watching

Even if that were the case, most of central IL has been dry-slotted so you won't be seeing much more precipitation tonight, be it rain snow ice sleet... Wish as you may, Champaign-Urbana is not going to see a big snow event this week!

 

[Mark Sefried]

Per LSR out of DMX... Waterloo, IA received 6 inches of snow in 2 hours from near 6-8 pm per the public. 9 inches of snow there and still falling heavy per radar. That's just sick!

 

[Chris Heater]

Even if that were the case, most of central IL has been dry-slotted so you won't be seeing much more precipitation tonight, be it rain snow ice sleet... Wish as you may, Champaign-Urbana is not going to see a big snow event this week!

I noticed that a bit ago. Thought MAYBE it would fill in but no. Maybe next time

 

[Stephen Locke]

REPORT

Dramatic One Inch Accumulation; Kansas City, 12-8-09

 

[Robert Dewey]

Can't believe how fast the pressure is falling here... it's dropped 4mb in the past hour, you can stand and watch the gauge tick down a tenth just about every minute and a half.

 

[Adam Lucio]

This storm has done everything it can to be just a boring waste of time around here.

10 minutes of gargantuan sized snowflakes followed by 3-4hrs of rain/sleet/snow mix accumulating to about an inch of slushy junk.

Now its time to be dry slotted while surrounding areas receive convective snow.

Its a BUST in every category [except my forecast because this is how I called it, so I dont know why I'm so surprised?] the only thing that can save it now is an interesting wind event tomorrow. >=\

/rant

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Boring time lapse of the snow here in northern Illinois.



Hard to see any detail, but we ended up with about 6 inches here. The heaviest snow occurs midway through the video with the convective snow bands around 8 PM, and then we are quickly dry-slotted. Of course, got everyone out there with the shovels before round 2.

 

[Robert Dewey]

This storm has done everything it can to be just a boring waste of time around here.

10 minutes of gargantuan sized snowflakes followed by 3-4hrs of rain/sleet/snow mix accumulating to about an inch of slushy junk.

Now its time to be dry slotted while surrounding areas receive convective snow.

Its a BUST in every category [except my forecast because this is how I called it, so I dont know why I'm so surprised?] the only thing that can save it now is an interesting wind event tomorrow. >=\

/rant

I'm worried about the wind event here. NAM and GFS have backed off on winds north of the MI border, partly because the low won't be as deep as expected. With a weaker / slightly further south track, the best CAA is also south of us.

If we miss out on the wind event tomorrow (and by "event" I mean gusts AOA 60mph)... I won't be happy. Having an "epic" low traverse your state - within 100 miles of you - and you see a dusting and some drizzle... Now that's just disappointing.

 

[Chris Carter]

Winner from Hastings reports is Clay Center with 14". Winner from Omaha so far is Fairbury with 12". Have no idea how much we got in Lincoln, its over 8" i know that, but i don't know if we hit 10 or not.

 

[Tyler Burg]

I think here in Omaha we're at 8-10" last I measured we had 7 and I plowed the driveway and when I was done there was 2" at the top already, we'll never know for sure how much fell now because the winds are howling out there. Quite a few 2-3ft snow drifts I've seen but nothing much bigger than that. Hastings was reporting 38mph sustained winds gusting to 45mph an hour or so ago, not sure if we'll get quite that windy, but probably gusts to 35.

 

[Chris Carter]

Lincoln is sitting at 35 sustained with gusts to 41mph.

 

[Robert Dewey]

Just did a hand analysis of the 6z SFC obs. It looks like the low is actually deeper than the 5z RUC at 1hr and the 0z NAM/GFS at 6hr. In fact, it lines up quite nicely with what the 12/08 12z NAM depicted. Not sure if that means anything... but I thought it was interesting none-the-less. By the time I got to the 996mb isobar, the gradient was so tight that I would have been guessing between stations.

 

[cstrunk]

Here in Ames, Iowa, the last heavy snow band has been moving through for the past couple of hours. When all is said and done, I wouldn't be surprised to hear of 12"+ totals in the Ames/Des Moines area. We probably have another hour or two before the moderate/heavy snow winds down.

Since midnight, the winds have picked up substantially. It's hard to tell in town, but I'm guessing out of the north at about 20-25 mph with gusts to 30-35 mph. I'm expecting whiteout conditions in about 6 hours.