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Ended with 3.5" of snow pushing my snow depth up to 5". Now just hoping to dodge a major warm up.

another win for accuweather 

That is now 3/3, never thought I would see the day......

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

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. 

You have been in about the best spot in the entire state for snowfall. This winter has just been so darn lame pretty much everywhere in the state. I have yet to see more than 2 inches with any 1 system. That's pretty sad.

I agree Clint, I really feel for you guys around the tri cities, I have been pretty lucky. My seasonal snowfall is around half for the entire year and we have the snowiest months ahead. I really hope/think we will see a monster around our area in feburary or March. The LRC looks to keep things active for us all the way through this summer; I really think this severe weather season will be one of the wildiest we have seen in a while....

Accuweather has 2-4" for me; I know it's crazy I'm mentioning this but they have been the most consistent this year for my area so I'm liking my chances. 

It's crazy in my area. I have had snow on the ground since christmas. I had a white thanksgiving, christmas, and new years. I now have a glacier in my yard also. The two days of 40 degrees this week depleted my snow depth from 6 down to 2. Then I received 2" last night pushing the snow depth up to 4. The 2" is crusted over and the snow I received last night was nothing but fluff. I'm hoping I can get another couple inches this week and keep the glacier in place!! 

another score for accuweather 

Crazy, they have been spot on for my area these past couple storms. I'm thinking pigs will start flying next.......

Solid 2" here in Shelby, maybe a little more. Pretty crazy how fluffy and dry this snow is.

Yeah i feel for you guys basically west of fullerton to GI down to Hastings. I have had snow on the ground since x mas. The way it sounds now my area is basically the only area left with snow on the ground in the CWA according to the disco from today. By my guess, it looks like we have 2-3" of snow left after these past couple days in the 40's. Still waiting for that monster storm, usually in an El Nino season we see that later in the winter. 

TEMPERATURES HAVE CLIMBED WELL ABOVE NORMAL THIS AFTERNOON (NORMAL HIGHS

AVERAGE IN THE MID 30S) DUE TO GOOD MIXING OF A WARM AIRMASS...
AIDED BY INSOLATION AND DOWNSLOPE WINDS. MOST AREAS HAVE REACHED
THE 50S AND EVEN AREAS WITH SNOW HAVE CLIMBED TO THE UPPER 40S.
VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTS THE ERODING SNOW FIELD...NOW
GENERALLY CONFINED TO LOCATIONS EAST OF A LINE FROM FULLERTON TO
AURORA TO CLAY CENTER...WITH THE MORE SOLID SNOW FIELD STILL
RESIDING IN EASTERN POLK COUNTY.

Accu weather has 1-3" of snow for my area. The only weather media outlet that has really a chance for snow. 

Probably the craziest thing from this storm was accuweather was spot on! They had my area receiving 3-6" of snow, and that was in their forecast 4 days ago!! Might have to start trusting in-accuweather!! 

Gonna be tough to beat the ice bowl between the packers and cowboys......It's crazy to think about that bengals game though. A temp of -8 with winds gusting to 30 mph?! Man that would hurt getting hit!! 

Here are some snow reports from the area. My official snow total comes from a person just northeast of town. He has been reporting for the NWS for years. I received 4.4" officially. Not a bad storm to say the least! 

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NWUS53 KGID 081654
LSRGID

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1054 AM CST FRI JAN 08 2016

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

0600 AM SNOW 4 N HASTINGS 40.65N 98.39W
01/08/2016 M1.5 INCH ADAMS NE OFFICIAL NWS OBS

24 HR TOTAL THRU 6 AM. SNOWDEPTH 2 IN.

0620 AM SNOW 2 SSE HASTINGS 40.56N 98.38W
01/08/2016 M2.5 INCH ADAMS NE NWS EMPLOYEE

24 HR TOTAL THRU 6 AM. CORRECTED FROM 1SSE TO BETTER
REFLECT LOCATION.

0630 AM SNOW BRADSHAW 40.88N 97.75W
01/08/2016 M2.4 INCH YORK NE CO-OP OBSERVER

0648 AM SNOW 3 N YORK 40.91N 97.60W
01/08/2016 M2.4 INCH YORK NE CO-OP OBSERVER

0700 AM SNOW 1 S FAIRFIELD 40.42N 98.10W
01/08/2016 M3.5 INCH CLAY NE COCORAHS

0700 AM SNOW CLAY CENTER 40.52N 98.05W
01/08/2016 M3.2 INCH CLAY NE CO-OP OBSERVER

0700 AM SNOW MCCOOL JUNCTION 40.74N 97.60W
01/08/2016 E2.5 INCH YORK NE PUBLIC

PUBLIC REPORT VIA FACEBOOK.

0700 AM SNOW 3 NE SHELBY 41.22N 97.39W
01/08/2016 M4.4 INCH POLK NE CO-OP OBSERVER

0700 AM SNOW 2 NW OHIOWA 40.43N 97.48W
01/08/2016 M3.0 INCH FILLMORE NE COCORAHS

0700 AM SNOW 2 WSW TOBIAS 40.41N 97.37W
01/08/2016 M2.5 INCH FILLMORE NE COCORAHS

0700 AM SNOW 4 SSE HILDRETH 40.28N 99.02W
01/08/2016 M2.5 INCH FRANKLIN NE COCORAHS

0700 AM SNOW 4 SW BLADEN 40.28N 98.65W
01/08/2016 M2.0 INCH WEBSTER NE COCORAHS

0800 AM SNOW 3 SE HASTINGS 40.55N 98.35W
01/08/2016 M3.1 INCH ADAMS NE NWS EMPLOYEE

SOUTH SIDE OF HASTINGS HAD ROUGHLY TWICE AS MUCH SNOW AS
OFFICIAL OB AT NWS OFFICE JUST NORTH OF TOWN.

We received a solid 4" of snow. The first band yesterday afternoon laid down between 2-3" of snow and then over night we received another couple inches. Of course there was some compacting so it's hard to tell exactly how much I received. My snow depth is now at 7". I haven't seen a huge storm yet but that should come, we usually see our heaviest snow storms later in the winter. I just hope I can keep this snow on the ground, I'm going on three weeks with a snow depth greater than 2". Now bring on the cold! I must say, this is the first time I have had school called off and we weren't in any advisory or warning. 

Shouldn't surprise me, but NWS Hastings really cutting back on snow amounts here.  I was in an area to get 4 inches and locally more and now it is saying maybe an inch if lucky.  For as great as the potential looks, it never seems to verify in the amounts that are forecasted.  You would think one of these would go our way in Central Nebraska.  On to the next storm hopefully.

They have been way off all year, not quite sure what the deal is. I was surprised to see how hard it snowed! It started off as graupel or snow grains and transitioned into huge snow flakes! I couldn't believe how big the flakes were! we received around 3" of snow in about an hour and a half! 

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

Some interesting write-ups about this storm. 

Storm totals from Odessa, Tx: https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201512282218-KMAF-NOUS44-PNSMAF

Write-up from Lubbock: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lub/?n=events-20151227-blizzard

2.4" is the official count for my county, I have a current snow depth of 3" which means I received 2 from this storm. The one inch that was on the ground before this storm was nothing but ice. I'm hoping I can keep some of this snow until the next storm hits.

I'll be lucky to see 2" if it's that much further east.

It's currently 10 degrees in Columbus and the NWS is predicting a low of 8. I don't recall seeing this amount of cold air a couple of days ago. It will not take much to fluff up snow totals tomorrow, that really is my only hope of seeing anything significant.I'm just hoping things can hold serve and I'll gladly take 3-5" maybe more if things come together just right.....

Such a sharp cut off I hate it. I need not even a 3 mile shift to the west and I'm in the 6-8".  It has been a frustrating past couple of days. Still waiting for the one "share the wealth storm" to occur for all of us. You have to admit though, it looks stupid with the WWA south of Columbus down to Hebron!! 

Platte county, which is Columbus, has 6-10" being forecasted. I'm straight south of there and I have 3-5". The snow will be moving in from the south!! It doesn't make sense, sometimes I wonder what the hell Hastings is thinking.....

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
333 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015

...WINTER STORM MOVING INTO THE AREA ON MONDAY...

IAZ043-055-056-NEZ012-015-017-018-031>034-042>045-280545-
/O.UPG.KOAX.WS.A.0004.151228T1200Z-151229T1200Z/
/O.NEW.KOAX.WS.W.0006.151228T1200Z-151229T1200Z/
MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-CEDAR-THURSTON-PIERCE-WAYNE-MADISON-
STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ONAWA...MAPLETON...MISSOURI VALLEY...
WOODBINE...LOGAN...DUNLAP...HARLAN...HARTINGTON...LAUREL...
RANDOLPH...COLERIDGE...PENDER...MACY...WALTHILL...WINNEBAGO...
PIERCE...PLAINVIEW...OSMOND...WAYNE...NORFOLK...STANTON...
WEST POINT...WISNER...TEKAMAH...OAKLAND...LYONS...DECATUR...
COLUMBUS...SCHUYLER...FREMONT...BLAIR
333 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM MONDAY TO 6 AM CST
TUESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING FOR SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM
6 AM MONDAY TO 6 AM CST TUESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO
LONGER IN EFFECT.

* TIMING...SNOW WILL SPREAD NORTH INTO THE AREA MONDAY MORNING
AND CONTINUE INTO MONDAY NIGHT. PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOWFALL ARE
POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY MORNING INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 6 TO 10
INCHES ACROSS THE AREA WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.

* IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BECOME VERY HAZARDOUS. NORTHEAST WINDS
OF 15 TO 25 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THE STRONG
WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING CAUSING SIGNIFICANT
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. VISIBILITIES IN THE BLOWING AND
FALLING SNOW MAY BE LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE AT TIMES.

I'm so excited for another WWA....just goes to show you why you never live model to model! 

The maps are going to look really funny, you will have WWA along highway 81 south of Columbus down to Hebron. Then warnings north and south of there from Columbus north and just south of Hebron into Kansas. Good old Hastings NWS! 

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
301 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015

...ACCUMULATION SNOWFALL EXPECTED IN SOME AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS LATE TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY
EVENING...

NEZ041-048-049-063-064-280600-
/O.UPG.KGID.WS.A.0005.151228T1200Z-151229T0600Z/
/O.NEW.KGID.WW.Y.0013.151228T1200Z-151229T0600Z/
NANCE-MERRICK-POLK-HAMILTON-YORK-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FULLERTON...GENOA...CENTRAL CITY...
STROMSBURG...OSCEOLA...SHELBY...POLK...AURORA...YORK
301 PM CST SUN DEC 27 2015

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM MONDAY TO MIDNIGHT
CST MONDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM MONDAY
TO MIDNIGHT CST MONDAY NIGHT. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER
IN EFFECT.

* TIMING...EXPECT SNOW TO DEVELOP AROUND 6 AM MONDAY AND THEN
DIMINISH AROUND MIDNIGHT MONDAY NIGHT.

* PRECIPITATION RATES...THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL RATES WILL OCCUR
BETWEEN 10 AM AND 5 PM MONDAY.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES
ARE EXPECTED. HEAVIER SNOW AMOUNTS WILL BE ALONG THE HIGHWAY 81
CORRIDOR.

* WINDS / VISIBILITIES...LOOK FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES AT
TIMES...AT TIMES LESS THAN 1 MILE.

* IMPACTS...PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS...INCLUDING DURING
THE MORNING COMMUTE ON MONDAY.

MON 12Z 28-DEC -10.7    -6.5    1026      63      56    0.00     558     538    MON 18Z 28-DEC  -8.0    -7.7    1017      82      97    0.11     552     539    TUE 00Z 29-DEC  -7.3    -9.9    1011      87      95    0.31     547     538    TUE 06Z 29-DEC  -8.0   -10.6    1013      87      92    0.10     546     536    TUE 12Z 29-DEC -10.8   -10.9    1018      85      73    0.04     549     536    

That would be 8-12" of snow if I get ratio's between 15-20:1. That would be nice.