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February 9th - 11th - Plains "Chasing The Weenie Band" Thread


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Still coming down moderately, but flakes are small so I just went ahead and took my final measurement. General consensus is 2". Meh. Onto tomorrow night's system.

 

Actually, scratch this. We have one more moderate area that could impact us with bigger flakes soon. We'll see. I still think any appreciable accumulation is done.

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Nope measured everything from Tuesday night. Funny! I’m not that dumb. I push snow for a living in the winter. Patio table and patio was cleaned Wednesday at my place. All snow measured is new as of tonight.

You will probably be the only one tonight that measures that much lol

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Well then; to be perfectly candid; you do not have 4.5"; and your report is actually a tad misleading...

If you can’t tell that post was sarcasm. I measure each and every lot that we push snow at and do the same at my house. Have been at the home and garden show all night and measured 2” at the Lancaster event center as of 10:15 tonight. Just so you know they also had that lot cleaned this week as well Tabitha. Same for my place. Believe what you want but I am typically pretty darn conservative with amounts.

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Then you should count yourself fortunate; as the Lincoln Airport...just to your SE...never reported a visibility under 1 mile (i.e. nothing more than light snow)...and only had 2/100ths of an inch of precip. measured as of the latest observation.

I would absolutely count myself fortunate. I drove right past the airport on my way home at 10:30-10:45 and had moderate snow the entire way home. Stopped at a gas station in the highlands on my way home and measured 2.5”. Airport is always much less but wouldn’t expect less from them. Doesn’t matter if it’s rain totals or snow, always multiple tenths of an inch less. Either way I am fine if you don’t believe me. Heading to bed now but will try and take some photos in the morning when I wake up

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We got another band of snow while I was fast asleep. I measured about another half inch from that. Therefore, I'm calling this event at 2.5". Another nickel and dimer. I'm thinking the airport got more, they recorded 2.4" for the DAY yesterday and that doesn't include the band that came thru.

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Seeing that the Lincoln Airport got 2.4" (I was under the misapprehension that the entire area was seeing little more than flurries or very light snow per a couple of the comments in this thread...like where Craig wrote "And the shaft cities live on!!!"); I apologize for doubting your snow report of 4 1/2 inches.

You have to reach warning criteria for the dome to come off of Omaha.

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Eastlack actually using met terms and writing out a decent AFD, whaaaaaat?

 

 

 

.SHORT TERM...(Today through Monday)
Issued at 330 AM CST Sat Feb 10 2018

Not much change with respect to the large scale pattern with a broad
upper trof still in control over the CONUS along with an amplified
ridge situated off the west coast.

Radar trends the last several hours suggest the band of snow along
and south of I-80 should be exiting the CWA within the next couple
hours. As of now, inquiries indicate additional accumulations
ranging from 1 to 2 inches was common.

At the sfc, very strong high pressure/accompanying arctic airmass
has dropped into the northern Plains. Current ambient temps over the
Dakotas were generally in the -5 to -10 below range with wind chill
indices already -20 to -30 below. Sfc winds won`t be all that strong
this morning over the CWA, but enough to drive indices to around
-15 below north and -5 below south.

Another round of snow will develop this morning in the vicinity
of SW NE and track eastward along the NE/KS border. Expect
deformation snow band to increase in intensity as it approaches
the SRN CWA this aftn with aid of upper level support via RRQ of
upper jet. For the most part, dendritic omega is progged to be
most prevalent along/south of I-80. At this point, expect
additional amounts ranging from 1 to 3 inches before events end
early Sunday morning. Therefore, will issue a Winter Weather
Advisory to reflect this.
 

Formerly *ahem*: LNK_Weather, TOL_Weather, FAR_Weather, MSP_Weather, IMoveALot_Weather.

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Don't fall for the RGEM. That always has unnecessarily beefed up totals.

 

Another day, another sharp cutoff for Lancaster County. This is the type of thing where one part of the county may see 5" and the other side may see 1". Thankfully this time I'm on the favorable side.

Formerly *ahem*: LNK_Weather, TOL_Weather, FAR_Weather, MSP_Weather, IMoveALot_Weather.

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NWS Hastings update::

 

 

Area Forecast Discussion

National Weather Service Hastings NE

1201 PM CST Sat Feb 10 2018

 

.UPDATE...

Issued at 1159 AM CST Sat Feb 10 2018

 

Quick update regarding Winter Weather Advisory/snow potential:

Much more to come in the main afternoon discussion, but here are

the basic changes made since 7AM:

- The Advisory has been expanded one row of counties north to

include the Highway 6 corridor counties, as there appears to be

a greater potential for widespread 2-3" amounts in these

counties (highest in southern parts). Also delayed the

"official" start time for the counties along/east of Highway 281

to 3PM (from Noon), as it will take a while yet for snow to

expand east out of the Furnas County area where it is already

falling.

- Have generally slightly increased snow amounts all areas, with

perhaps as much as 2" now affecting the southern parts of the

Interstate 80 counties. For now will hold off an Advisory

expansion into the I-80 corridor, but if snow trends happen to

increase much northward at all, this may need considered.

- It now appears the overall-heaviest snow (3-4", maybe locally

higher) will likely target an area within roughly 20-30 miles

either side of the state line, and taper off north and south of

that axis.

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Weenie band definitely isn't setting up in a favorable spot for any of us.

 

That being said, I don't know what OAX was thinking in not adding us to the WWA. At least the Southern part of the county has the ability to meet advisory criteria.

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