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January 19th-20th Light Snow Event


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Is it snowing good out in NE???

The flakes this morning where much bigger, but it's still snowing. By the way it looked I had around an inch or an inch and a half at 7 this morning. I will have an official measurement when I get home today. Hoping to pick up 3", sounds like Columbus was the big winner so far. My wife teaches there and we have some teachers who commute here and it sounds like they had around 4" as of this morning. 

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It's coming down pretty hard in central Omaha, has been for probably the last 30 minutes. It was basically pixie dust most of this morning, but the flakes are larger now. I'd say we're at maybe 1.5-2". I don't think anyone is going to get 6" out of this. I think 3-4" will be the norm, maybe a 5" somewhere in east central Nebraska.

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I would say my area lucked out again; I have been on the edge of almost every storm so far this year and it works out to where my area is right up against the heaviest! I think areas along highway 92 from St. Paul towards Omaha should see 3-5" with isolated 6" in spots. The snow forecast has changed so much from this storm though, pretty crazy! 

 

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NWUS53 KGID 191605
LSRGID

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1005 AM CST TUE JAN 19 2016

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0830 AM SNOW ST. PAUL 41.21N 98.46W
01/19/2016 M3.4 INCH HOWARD NE CO-OP OBSERVER

THROUGH 830 AM...LIGHT SNOW CONTINUES SO NOT A TRUE STORM
TOTAL

0945 AM SNOW 3 NE SHELBY 41.22N 97.39W
01/19/2016 E3.0 INCH POLK NE TRAINED SPOTTER

UNOFFICIAL REPORT...SNOW STILL FALLING SO NOT YET A STORM
TOTAL

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Lol right? I hate how Omaha people think they have the "Omadome", bs. The Lincodome is way stronger. They have double our snow total this year. We'll be lucky to see over an inch here, maybe 2" if we're lucky.

Mmm looking at climatology we(Lincoln and Omaha) either both have a dome or don't if you look at the seasonal totals :)

 

2015: Lincoln 24.2" Omaha 24.9"

2014: Lincoln 17.4" Omaha 17.4"

2013: Lincoln 28.3" Omaha 31.8"

 

It's true we have done better this winter so far, but 8" of what we have had was a "fluke" 20 mile wide band that set up over Omaha. I know it all counts in the end though. Really if you look back at 2015 in total, you guys had 2x as much as us in Jan-Feb 2015 so even though we had 2x as much in December of 2015 that just basically made up the difference for total in 2015.

 

Jan '15: Lincoln 3.9" Omaha 4.1"

Feb '15: Lincoln 12.4" Omaha 6.4"

Dec '15: Lincoln 6.1" Omaha 12.3"

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Given the official hourly precip totals from Omaha and Lamoni, it appears the snow ratios are only in the 10-12 to 1 range... so the cold temp isn't help much.

 

At one point later yesterday it was looking like we may not get anything at all, but the HRRR is trending toward an inch or so this evening.

season snowfall: 34.8"

'22-23: 30.2"      '21-22: 27.1"      '20-21: 52.5"      '19-20: 36.2"      '18-19: 50.2"      '17-18: 39.5"

Average snowfall: ~30"

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I'm guessing a lot of the snow along the northern edge was that sugar type snow.

 

Looking at a sounding east of Des Moines would suggest fairly small flakes with temps struggling to push over -10°C in the DGZ.

 

Mercer Island, 350 ft

2021-2022: 11.6", 02/21

2020-2021: 15.6"

2019-2020: ~10"

2018-2019 winter snowfall total: 29.5"

2017-2018: 9.0", 2016-2017: 14.0"

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