• 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.

2/1 - 2/3 NOW S. PLAINS/MIDWEST/GL/

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Been listening to the Lake County, IL Sheriffs department on my police scanner. Cars are stranded in the roadways everywhere. Cops are stranded, Ambulances are stranded, etc. The plows are staging at the fire departments and are pretty much only being used to clear paths for emergency equipment at this time. Many folks stranded in cars calling for help, and the cops are having a lot of trouble getting to them as they are getting stuck themselves. Police and fire in Lake County is simply crippled.

The LOT NWSFO just released a PNS relaying similar info:

REPORTS FROM MEDIA AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALLY INDICATE
[FONT=lucida sans typewriter, lucida console, courier]THAT HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF VEHICLES HAVE GONE OFF THE
ROADS. THE GOVERNOR HAS ACTIVATED THE NATIONAL GUARD WHO ARE
CURRENTLY RESCUING STRANDED MOTORISTS.
[/FONT][FONT=lucida sans typewriter, lucida console, courier]THE BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT...PARTICULARLY IN
OPEN AREAS WHERE WHITE OUT CONDITIONS WILL MAKE TRAVEL
IMPOSSIBLE. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ARE TELLING PEOPLE TO
STAY OFF THE ROADS AS NOT A SINGLE ROAD IS PASSABLE IN RURAL AND
OPEN AREAS. THEY ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO STAY IN A SAFE PLACE AND NOT
TO LEAVE HOME TONIGHT. [/FONT][FONT=lucida sans typewriter, lucida console, courier]
--> http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KLOT/1102020608.wwus83.html

The winds continue to be impressive, just as they were about 24 hours ago when the heavy sleet was starting in Oklahoma. Max wind gust I can see from the LOT area is 67 mph, but the major airports have had >60 mph gusts. 1051 mb high in Colorado and 998 mb low in Indiana (per 6z RUC analysis on rap.ucar) will do that, I suppose.

LOT also has the mother of all LSR summaries (issued around 11 pm local) that's interesting to peruse (LINK).
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Yesterday, we had temps in the low 20's from morning onward, with winds gusting to over 40 MPH. We had 3/4" of sleet on the ground in the N.Dallas Suburbs with off and on flurries all day. Here in the Dallas area, roads are not salted, so most businesses were closed yesterday. Today, many school districts are still closed and in fact the entire Dallas County Community College District is also closed so I have a 2nd day off work - on just 3/4" of sleet. (it took 20 minutes to get the ice off my car windows)
In addition up to 3" of snow is progged for Houston on Thursday night into Friday.
Feel free to check out a poetic description of yesterday's weather plus a photo on my storm chase blog site www.joyfulstormhunting.com
 
Storm was somewhat of a bust at my location. I noticed an area of weaker reflectivity on radar nosing up in my direction before I went to sleep. It's difficult to measure snow with all the drifting, but it appears I only got 6-7 inches at my place (Eastern Kalamazoo County). After blowing hard last night, I wake up to almost no wind this morning. It's picked up again, so it appears the low tracked pretty close to my location. Looking at spotter reports in the area, locations to my west and north picked up considerably more snow. Even with the lower snowfall totals, still got some good 2-2.5 foot high drifts.
 
Looks like the bulk of the storm has moved off, yet we're still getting heavy lake effect snow here.

Couple of shots from Westchester, IL:
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And a squirrel trying to make his way across a several foot high drift in Bolingbrook:
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Well, storm was an epic fail for pretty much all of southeast MI. We ended up with 4-7 inches, with a few locally higher amounts. Winds briefly reached 40-50mph before the gradient slackened as the low passed near by. People will definitely remember this as an epic fail in this area, I'm sure.
 
Skip, those are some nice pictures - I hope the squirrel made it back!

And as someone else had mentioned, I guess it can't be a record snowstorm for everybody - though, I'm still reeling from the idea of nearly 20 inches in that swath from northeastern Oklahoma through the Ozarks. That's absolutely unheard of around here. I'd drive out to see if it were possible!
 
Well, storm was an epic fail for pretty much all of southeast MI.
Robert, I feel your pain. This storm seemed to be almost a sure thing with regards to snow amounts along the I-94 corridor. I saw run after run output 1 inch or more of QPF for much of I-94. That should of resulted in at least 10 inches. I guess my one post in the forecast section was prophetic:
I tend to curb my excitement when storms like this are predicted, because I've seen it happen so many times where the ingredients don't come together as predicted by the models, or the storms track 100 miles left or right of the forecasted path.
 
Woke up and found this outside my front door.
Then the driveway was almost done along comes the plow.

Light fluffy Evil White Stuff (EWS). Only recorded a gust of 42.7 here but
enough to toss this stuff around

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Tim
 
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Some photos from the front and back of my house. I still can't get out the back of my house due to drifts greater than 4 feet high. Both my cars are buried, luckily my parents left me their truck. I spent all day working on my two elderly neighbors drives and walkways. I didn't do mine yet and probably will wake up at 8 A.M. to start the very long job of doing mine. It sucks because I don't have a snow blower to handle this so it will all be by shoveling by hand lol. I will either keel over or come out the most in shape man in storm chasing! Maybe I will bribe Lucio to come over with a case of beer to help me! I would guess 18-20 inches of snow.
 
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