Geos Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 The snowfall season is just about to start in the Midwest. Even though there is a strong el Niño going on, the snow still goes on! A snowfall contest idea was thrown out there and I decided to put this one together. I picked 18 stations within the Midwest/Southern Plains where all members; I hope, reside close by to one (at least within a 100 miles). Here is the map I created with airport codes of each station. For the contest, pick a snowfall tally you think each airport station will end up with at the end of the season. Below is the average seasonal snowfall total of each place. GRI (Grand Island, NE) 29.0"FSD (Sioux Falls, SD) 44.5"OMA (Omaha, NE) 26.4"AAO (Wichita, KS) 14.7"TUL (Tulsa, OK) 9.7"MCI (Kansas City, MO) 18.8"STL (St. Louis, MO) 17.7"DSM (Des Moines, IA) 34.9"MLI (Moline/Quad Cities, IL/IA) 33.5"LSE (La Crosse, WI) 46.1"MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 50.6"AUW (Wausau, WI) 59.6"MKE (Milwaukee, WI) 49.2"ORD (Chicago, IL) 38.1"IND (Indianapolis, IN) 25.9"GRR (Grand Rapids, MI) 77.1"DTW (Detroit, MI) 44.8"CLE (Cleveland, OH) 67.2" All average snowfall are the 30 year average between 1981-2010. Three tiebreakers, just in case... #1: Greatest snowfall; in one storm, for Omaha, NE.#2: January snowfall total for Chicago, IL.#3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January. (Will have to pay close attention to this one... events can last for a few days) Deadline: 11:59 PM CST, Friday November 13th. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 I would like to put together a list of seasonal snowfall extremes and the last 10 years of snowfall tallies for each location and include the two super Niño winters. Need to really do some digging on some locations, but any help would be appreciated. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Snowball Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Omaha,nebraska 21.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKwx2k4 Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 GRI (Grand Island, NE) 34.3"FSD (Sioux Falls, SD) 38.4"OMA (Omaha, NE) 28.0"AAO (Wichita, KS) 17.2"TUL (Tulsa, OK) 12.8"MCI (Kansas City, MO) 23.8"STL (St. Louis, MO) 22.6"DSM (Des Moines, IA) 28.2"MLI (Moline/Quad Cities, IL/IA) 38.5"LSE (La Crosse, WI) 39.7"MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 66.1"AUW (Wausau, WI) 54.4"MKE (Milwaukee, WI) 45.1"ORD (Chicago, IL) 47.9"IND (Indianapolis, IN) 20.0"GRR (Grand Rapids, MI) 89.2"DTW (Detroit, MI) 54.3"CLE (Cleveland, OH) 77.2" Just for fun: FYV (Fayetteville, AR) 14.9" All average snowfall are the 30 year average between 1981-2010. Three tiebreakers, just in case... #1: Greatest snowfall; in one storm, for Omaha, NE.----12.4 #2: January snowfall total for Chicago, IL.----9.1 #3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January.----20.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKwx2k4 Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 I just used your format if that's ok. Let the games begin! I hope my forecasts bust low for everyone! :-) Let it snow! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 GRI (Grand Island, NE) 20" FSD (Sioux Falls, SD) 30" OMA (Omaha, NE) 17" AAO (Wichita, KS) 11" TUL (Tulsa, OK) 7" MCI (Kansas City, MO) 18" STL (St. Louis, MO) 12" DSM (Des Moines, IA) 22" MLI (Moline/Quad Cities, IL/IA) 26" LSE (La Crosse, WI) 32" MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 30" AUW (Wausau, WI) 33" MKE (Milwaukee, WI) 35" ORD (Chicago, IL) 29" IND (Indianapolis, IN) 20" GRR (Grand Rapids, MI) 60" DTW (Detroit, MI) 39" CLE (Cleveland, OH) 56" #1: Greatest snowfall; in one storm, for Omaha, NE. 7.6" #2: January snowfall total for Chicago, IL. 8" #3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January. 14" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Omaha,nebraska 21.7 Welcome to the forum!Nice of you to join the contest as well. But pick a tally for each location and the tiebreakers. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 My picks: GRI (Grand Island, NE) 32.5" FSD (Sioux Falls, SD) 47.3" OMA (Omaha, NE) 44.4" AAO (Wichita, KS) 18.0" TUL (Tulsa, OK) 12.0" MCI (Kansas City, MO) 26.8" STL (St. Louis, MO) 20.1" DSM (Des Moines, IA) 52.1" MLI (Moline/Quad Cities, IL/IA) 42.9" LSE (La Crosse, WI) 50.5" MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 52.6" AUW (Wausau, WI) 64.6" MKE (Milwaukee, WI) 55.4" ORD (Chicago, IL) 48.2" IND (Indianapolis, IN) 24.7" GRR (Grand Rapids, MI) 76.6" DTW (Detroit, MI) 45.2" CLE (Cleveland, OH) 70.4" Three tiebreakers, just in case... #1: Greatest snowfall; in one storm, for Omaha, NE. 10.8" #2: January snowfall total for Chicago, IL. 14.5" #3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January. 14.7" Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 GRI (Grand Island, NE) 42.4" FSD (Sioux Falls, SD) 67.2" OMA (Omaha, NE) 48.5" AAO (Wichita, KS) 30.7" TUL (Tulsa, OK) 15.3" MCI (Kansas City, MO) 33.0" STL (St. Louis, MO) 28.0" DSM (Des Moines, IA) 54.7" MLI (Moline/Quad Cities, IL/IA) 53.5" LSE (La Crosse, WI) 48.1" MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 44.3" AUW (Wausau, WI) 52.0" MKE (Milwaukee, WI) 58.0" ORD (Chicago, IL) 65.5" IND (Indianapolis, IN) 32.9" GRR (Grand Rapids, MI) 88.0" DTW (Detroit, MI) 64.8" CLE (Cleveland, OH) 70.2" All average snowfall are the 30 year average between 1981-2010. Three tiebreakers, just in case... #1: Greatest snowfall; in one storm, for Omaha, NE. (14.5") #2: January snowfall total for Chicago, IL. (25.0") #3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January. (Will have to pay close attention to this one... events can last for a few days) (24.0") 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westMJim Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 This is my snow fall guess for the winter of 2015/16. As we all know guessing snow fall totals is just that a guess. I have the possible range (for strong El Nino) years in () GRI (Grand Island, NE) 30.5 (10.8 to 42.2) FSD (Sioux Falls, SD) 32.5” (13.3 to 70.9) OMA (Omaha, NE) 34.5” (14.2 to 51.0) AAO (Wichita, KS) 21.0” (4.7 to 27.7) TUL (Tulsa, OK) 10.0.2” (4.6 to 17.2) MCI (Kansas City, MO) 20.6” (9.7 to 31.2) STL (St. Louis, MO) 15.2” (4.0 to 27.0) DSM (Des Moines, IA) 42.2” (54.7 to 8.3) MLI (Moline/Quad Cities, IL/IA) 26.7” (13.6 to 34.9) LSE (La Crosse, WI) 37.5” (20.0 to 52.7) MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 43.7” (21.2 to 74.4) AUW (Wausau, WI) 49.8” MKE (Milwaukee, WI) 42.5” (31.9 to 51.0) ORD (Chicago, IL) 28.5” (20.0 to 34.0) IND (Indianapolis, IN) 11.8” ( 7.1 to 12.5) GRR (Grand Rapids, MI) 57.5” (35.9 to 70.3) DTW (Detroit, MI) 23.8” (15.4 to 45.0) CLE (Cleveland, OH) 43.7” (31.1 to 68.5) #1: Greatest snowfall; in one storm, for Omaha, NE. 6.4"#2: January snowfall total for Chicago, IL 7.4"#3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January. 8.9" For GRR I will use the as the end of a lake effect event as ending when GRR has less then 0.1" of snow recorded. (we can use just a trace if you want) but remember that there can and often is system snows with a lake effect event. If needed I will try to keep up on this but I will be going to Florida for about 10 days late in January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westMJim Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 While this really don't belong here but I will post it as it does show you the effects of a major lake effect snow. I came across this write up on the lake effect snow event of November 1951 Heavy snow came early in the fall of 1951. More than two feet of snow fell in downtown Grand Rapids in the first 8 days of November. Measurable snow fell on each of those days, with 5.8″ on the 3rd, 4.4″ on the 4th, 6.4″ on the 6th and 7.6″ on the 7th. There was a foot of snow on the ground in downtown Grand Rapids the morning of the 8th and “drifts were considerably greater”. Low temperatures were in the teens from the 2nd to the 6th. By the 13th, the temperature was back above 60 degrees (a heavy thunderstorm that day flooded streets and basements), but the month did wind up 5.6 colder than average, with a total of 30″ of snowfall. The downtown weather station set record low temperatures on the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th. The airport weather station had five consecutive record low temperatures from the 2nd through the 6th, including +6° on the 5th and +9° on the 6th. The heavy snow continued in December with 51.3″ measured at the downtown weather station. The snow was 22″ deep (not counting drifts) on Christmas Day. That winter was the snowiest winter ever in Grand Rapids with 144″ downtown and 132″ for the season at the (old) Kent County Airport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted November 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 I dug up a bunch of data on the cities in our contest. Source: http://www.theweathercollector.com/Data on this site only goes back to the 2004-2005 winter. Could not find several cities snowfalls from the 1997-98 winter though. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKwx2k4 Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 While this really don't belong here but I will post it as it does show you the effects of a major lake effect snow. I came across this write up on the lake effect snow event of November 1951 Heavy snow came early in the fall of 1951. More than two feet of snow fell in downtown Grand Rapids in the first 8 days of November. Measurable snow fell on each of those days, with 5.8″ on the 3rd, 4.4″ on the 4th, 6.4″ on the 6th and 7.6″ on the 7th. There was a foot of snow on the ground in downtown Grand Rapids the morning of the 8th and “drifts were considerably greater”. Low temperatures were in the teens from the 2nd to the 6th. By the 13th, the temperature was back above 60 degrees (a heavy thunderstorm that day flooded streets and basements), but the month did wind up 5.6 colder than average, with a total of 30″ of snowfall. The downtown weather station set record low temperatures on the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th. The airport weather station had five consecutive record low temperatures from the 2nd through the 6th, including +6° on the 5th and +9° on the 6th. The heavy snow continued in December with 51.3″ measured at the downtown weather station. The snow was 22″ deep (not counting drifts) on Christmas Day. That winter was the snowiest winter ever in Grand Rapids with 144″ downtown and 132″ for the season at the (old) Kent County Airport.That's awesome. I love weather history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 Might have to "adjust" my snowfall totals by next week. The LRC setting up is getting pretty stormy and some places may be getting a head start to their snowfall totals by months end! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted November 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 Go ahead and adjust away until the deadline, then I record everything in a spreadsheet and post it here. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKwx2k4 Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 May be doing some adjusting as well! I think that's a good problem to have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Even with an El Nino happening this 2015-16 Winter season, I believe due to a south east ridge scenario forming, snowfall tally's will average a good 18 to 36" above average for all cities reported on this particular thread. With that in mind, a lot of Appalachian tracks are likely, which will bury my location and even further inland is possible, possibly as far west as my area, which will favor a lot of posters on this board with heavy snows. Quote Snowfall for Winter 2023 -24 for Metro Detroit Area Oct 2023: 0.2" AN Nov 2023: 2.2" AN Dec 2023: 0.5" BN Insane! Jan 2024: 17.0" AN Feb 2024: 1.9" BN Mar 2024: 4.9" BN April 2024: Season So Far: 26.7" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentralNebWeather Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 GRI (Grand Island, NE) 34.2" FSD (Sioux Falls, SD) 40.3" OMA (Omaha, NE) 29.2" AAO (Wichita, KS) 16.1" TUL (Tulsa, OK) 12.1" MCI (Kansas City, MO) 24.5" STL (St. Louis, MO) 18.4" DSM (Des Moines, IA) 39.3" MLI (Moline/Quad Cities, IL/IA) 30.3" LSE (La Crosse, WI) 38.5" MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 47.3" AUW (Wausau, WI) 55.4" MKE (Milwaukee, WI) 44.1" ORD (Chicago, IL) 35.1" IND (Indianapolis, IN) 23.2" GRR (Grand Rapids, MI) 73.1" DTW (Detroit, MI) 38.7" CLE (Cleveland, OH) 64.1" All average snowfall are the 30 year average between 1981-2010. Three tiebreakers, just in case... #1: Greatest snowfall; in one storm, for Omaha, NE.- 10.8" #2: January snowfall total for Chicago, IL.- 12.9" #3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January. (Will have to pay close attention to this one... events can last for a few days)- 14.2" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted November 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Here is the contest chart I just made up to show the spread in picks. 1 Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabel23 Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 GRI (Grand Island, NE) 39.4"FSD (Sioux Falls, SD) 48.7"OMA (Omaha, NE) 37.3"AAO (Wichita, KS) 25.1TUL (Tulsa, OK) 13.6"MCI (Kansas City, MO) 21.2"STL (St. Louis, MO) 12.5"DSM (Des Moines, IA) 45.5"MLI (Moline/Quad Cities, IL/IA) 42.5"LSE (La Crosse, WI) 52.4"MSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN) 56.6"AUW (Wausau, WI) 60.6"MKE (Milwaukee, WI) 41.2"ORD (Chicago, IL) 43.1"IND (Indianapolis, IN) 20.1"GRR (Grand Rapids, MI) 83.3"DTW (Detroit, MI) 40.7"CLE (Cleveland, OH) 70.2" All average snowfall are the 30 year average between 1981-2010. Three tiebreakers, just in case... #1: Greatest snowfall; in one storm, for Omaha, NE. 11.1"#2: January snowfall total for Chicago, IL. 11.1"#3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January. (Will have to pay close attention to this one... events can last for a few days) 11.1" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted November 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Updated: Sites from left to right. ORD CLE DTW MKE MSP MLI STL GRR IND LSE DSM AUW OMA MCI TUL AAO GRI FSD 1 Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted December 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Snowfall tallies through 12/03. Sioux Falls in the lead - no surprise there. 3 Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westMJim Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Snowfall tallies through 12/03. 120315snowtallies.png Sioux Falls in the lead - no surprise there.The way this winter looks to be going my conservative snow fall totals may be too high. But we shall see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKwx2k4 Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 The way this winter looks to be going my conservative snow fall totals may be too high. But we shall seeYeah. Mine for a few places are probably already pretty low, several probably too high. I'd rather bust low than high though. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 I'm gonna bust so high especially for DTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted December 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Will be updating this on the 1st. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Some seasonal snowfall totals to date... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKwx2k4 Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 I'd take the worst one on that map. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Still waiting for the data to come in from all locations to load their 29th data. Probably by tomorrow it should be in. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 Snowfall for each city through 12/31 Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabel23 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I found a pretty sweet website off of Aberdeen NWS's page that measures how severe your winter is for any location. It appears Wyoming is having a pretty severe winter so far. I can relate because I have seen Facebook pictures of snowdrifts 30' in places around Cheyenne. Will be interesting to see how it looks come April..... Aberdeen's writeup of how the winter is going so far: http://www.weather.gov/abr/2015-16WinterUpdate Winter Severity page: http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/research/awssi/indexAwssi.jsp#info 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I found a pretty sweet website off of Aberdeen NWS's page that measures how severe your winter is for any location. It appears Wyoming is having a pretty severe winter so far. I can relate because I have seen Facebook pictures of snowdrifts 30' in places around Cheyenne. Will be interesting to see how it looks come April..... Aberdeen's writeup of how the winter is going so far: http://www.weather.gov/abr/2015-16WinterUpdate Winter Severity page: http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/research/awssi/indexAwssi.jsp#info Thanks for posting that!My cousin in Fort Collins has said this is most cold and snowy winter so far he's seen there. He's only been out there 5 years though. Interesting that Chicago popped into the extreme early on. Of course that didn't last long. 1 Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKwx2k4 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I found a pretty sweet website off of Aberdeen NWS's page that measures how severe your winter is for any location. It appears Wyoming is having a pretty severe winter so far. I can relate because I have seen Facebook pictures of snowdrifts 30' in places around Cheyenne. Will be interesting to see how it looks come April..... Aberdeen's writeup of how the winter is going so far: http://www.weather.gov/abr/2015-16WinterUpdate Winter Severity page: http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/research/awssi/indexAwssi.jsp#infoThat's pretty neat. I'm giving Bastardi an F on his winter weather index so far. Polar opposite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westMJim Posted January 10, 2016 Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 Right now here at my house getting moderate wind blown snow and the temp is now down to 24° As a heads up this (today) could be the start of the winter snow fall guess tie breaker…………. #3: Greatest lake effect snowfall total for Grand Rapids, MI in January. (Will have to pay close attention to this one... events can last for a few days) this event could last most if not all of the upcoming week. I will post then in several places so almost ever one will able to view it, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westMJim Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 I will post this in a couple of topics as it pertains to one of the tie breakers in the winter snow fall contest OK as Grand Rapids is expected to get rain today and thus no snow fall here is the daily total snow fall as recorded at the airport. I do not know how you plan to separate the system snows from the lake effect but here is what we received 1/14 t1/13 1.9”1/12 4.7”1/11 2.6”1/10 2.1” Total this period 11.3” To help break down the lake effect from system snow I looked at Milwaukee for the same dates and here is their totals 1/14 01/13 0.61/12 t1/11 1.61/10 tTotal 2.2”Giving Grand Rapids 9.1” of lake effect for this event. Another event will start on Saturday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james1976 Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 Local met just posted this. Doing pretty good over here. Snowfall UpdateSnow stats through Jan 16 at:WaterlooSeason: 27.5″Normal: 16.8″ (+10.7″)Last Year: 13.4″DubuqueSeason: 21.8″Normal: 19.1″ (+2.7″)Last Year: 8.3″ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 I will post this in a couple of topics as it pertains to one of the tie breakers in the winter snow fall contest OK as Grand Rapids is expected to get rain today and thus no snow fall here is the daily total snow fall as recorded at the airport. I do not know how you plan to separate the system snows from the lake effect but here is what we received 1/14 t1/13 1.9”1/12 4.7”1/11 2.6”1/10 2.1” Total this period 11.3” To help break down the lake effect from system snow I looked at Milwaukee for the same dates and here is their totals 1/14 01/13 0.61/12 t1/11 1.61/10 tTotal 2.2”Giving Grand Rapids 9.1” of lake effect for this event. Another event will start on Saturday Local met just posted this. Doing pretty good over here.Snowfall UpdateSnow stats through Jan 16 at:WaterlooSeason: 27.5″Normal: 16.8″ (+10.7″)Last Year: 13.4″DubuqueSeason: 21.8″Normal: 19.1″ (+2.7″)Last Year: 8.3″ Thanks to both of you.I will go into Grand Rapids hour by hour observations and see if I can pull out a ballpark system snow figure.I am going to go with the 9.1" you put down westMJim. I can see pretty much when the LES cuts off, by what the wind direction is, but the actual snowfall amounts are not given at each hour, just the water equivalent. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabel23 Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 This will go down as one of the toughest forecasted winters around are parts in a while. That is quoted from a meteorologist out of lincoln, we have had 6 surprise snowstorms or over achievers in my area since x-mas. I have had a white thanksgiving, x mas, and new years for the first time since I can remember. I have had snow on the ground pretty much since a week before x mas, and my current snow depth is at 5". If we can avoid too much of a melt off from the heat wave coming in this week, I might go into March with snow on the ground. That might be a guarantee if that storm next week comes anywhere close to it's predicted totals. Overall, I'm pretty impressed with this strong El-Nino winter...hard to believe that some in Nebraska have had very little in the way of snow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james1976 Posted February 13, 2016 Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 Waterloo snowfall statshttp://addins.kwwl.com/blogs/weather/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Snow-Totals-4-Lines.png 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted February 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 Thanks James.I'll update the numbers today. Quote 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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