December 12-14th Snow and Rain system

[Jaycee]

i was just outside and its a very very cold heavy rain around walmart on n. 27th.

Yeah, I'm about 2 miles north of that wally world, only hard rain. Sucks. So muddy and gross, the sides of the roads have some impressive streams going. This I the most amazing yet depressing storm ever. Never seen this much moisture in december, but it's all RAIN.

[Bryan1117]

Still no changeover yet in Omaha, even though the higher radar returns are over the city. Just a cold heavy rain with huge drops. Such a waste of moisture right now while the thermometer reads 34. Dynamic cooling might not be enough to get us snow around here, but at least we have a couple more hours to see if anything happens.

[Bryan1117]

And just as I post that, the changeover has occurred in Omaha. Massive flakes and it's already starting to accumulate. A couple hours of this and we might have a nice surprise here. No thundersnow yet but the snowfall rates I wouldn't necessarily be surprised to see it.

[Guest Snowball]

Heavy snow south of lincoln. At least an inch on the deck.

[Guest Snowball]

Wife is heading in to Lincoln to work out and she called and said 54th and Saltillo is blocked by a semi that looked jacked knifed

[Andrew NE]

Was coming down at near 2" per hour rates in Omaha between 430-530am. Has definitely lightened up a bit now. Crazy to see it stick to roads and driveways pretty well with temps at 36-37, let alone the upper 50's and lower 60's we had all last week.

[Guest Snowball]

Right after I posted, it switched back to rain.

[Andrew NE]

Main lift has moved on. Just a slopfest now with rain/ice pellet/snow mix. Was fun to watch while it lasted. Onto a high of 40 today.

[Bryan1117]

Yep just as quick as things got exciting out there, it was over. It was nice to get at least some snow out of all this moisture. Better than nothing but overall still a sloppy disappointment.

 

Now flooding concerns become the big issue around here the next few days. Over 3 inches of total precip across the area this weekend, just unbelievable.

[Andrew NE]

Indeed Bryan, snowfall totals would have been so insane " only if" there was more cold air. Haha. We always have to go back to the what if senerios it seems.

[NEJeremy]

was hoping to wake up to a surprise and instead was disappointed. peaked outside at 445 and it was snowing pretty good. woke up at 7 and it was back to rain and just little slush left on the grass. I'll have to check my rain gauge, but the Omaha airport was all the way up to 3.39" of moisture since this started as of 8am!

[Hawkeye]

I finished with 2.46" of rain.  This was quite the exceptionally warm and wet December system... rare for sure.

[CentralNebWeather]

No snow at all in Holdrege.  Winter Storm Watch Saturday morning for 7 inches to nothing by Sunday night.

[Grizzcoat]

over 4" here W of DSM in the tipping bucket,,, manual if set up would easily been 4.25 to 4.5"  Grass was white in spots where there is no standing water (not many) -- but since melted. Considering it's DEC in IA-- over 4" of rain in less then 36 hours-- this goes down as a top 3 crazy weather event I have been part off that I remember clearly (crazy stuff in 80's in MPLS)  #1 is 30" Halloween Blizzard MPLS 1991. #2 -- probably this. #3 May 2nd-3rd 2013--- nearly 7" of snow DSM.

[Snowshoe]

Lots of records falling with this storm.

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Rainfall at https://twitter.com/NWSGreenBay at 3.25" (thru 9 AM Mon) since the storm began early Sunday AM. So far, 2nd biggest rainstorm of year. https://twitter.com/hashtag/wiwx?src=hash

— NWS Green Bay (@NWSGreenBay) https://twitter.com/NWSGreenBay/status/676420809875918848

[Snowshoe]

Some of the higher rain totals from Wisconsin that i've seen. These are from NWS LaCrosse.

VIROQUA 0.8 ESE              6.27 IN   0700 AM 12/14   43.55N/90.87W        
VIROQUA                      5.96 IN   0700 AM 12/14   43.56N/90.88W        
THOMPSON DAM                 5.51 IN   0844 AM 12/14   43.49N/90.95W        
YTTRI DAM                    5.43 IN   0759 AM 12/14   43.55N/90.82W

That is a tremendous amount any time of year but especially in December.

[Geos]

Well at least the folks in Nebraska had a bit of a show this morning.

A lot more exciting than the weather here.

 

1.15" of rain here only. Well under the 2"+ predicted.

[Andrew NE]

My office is just south of DT omaha and my rain gauge had just shy of 4" in it this morning at 8:50am, that did include the heavy band of snow this morning though. Crazy!!!

[Geos]

Some of the higher rain totals from Wisconsin that i've seen. These are from NWS LaCrosse.

VIROQUA 0.8 ESE              6.27 IN   0700 AM 12/14   43.55N/90.87W        
VIROQUA                      5.96 IN   0700 AM 12/14   43.56N/90.88W        
THOMPSON DAM                 5.51 IN   0844 AM 12/14   43.49N/90.95W        
YTTRI DAM                    5.43 IN   0759 AM 12/14   43.55N/90.82W

That is a tremendous amount any time of year but especially in December.

 

This looks like the aftermath of a series of summer thunderstorms! That's nuts for December.

[Geos]

I see that southeast MN managed to get some snow this morning.

[gosaints]

I see that southeast MN managed to get some snow this morning.

Flakes.were flying here for.sure. No accumulation though

[jcwxguy]

Ended up with about 2.5" snow here before it began to melt and wash away

[Geos]

Flakes.were flying here for.sure. No accumulation though

 

I think the accumulating snow was a little northwest of you. I remember seeing snow on the ground in Rochester.

[gosaints]

I think the accumulating snow was a little northwest of you. I remember seeing snow on the ground in Rochester.

Ya.saw cars coming into town with snow on them

[NEJeremy]

ended up with 3.27" of rain here and just enough snow to make the ground white. next system looks to bring us some more light rain here in Omaha. This storm gave me more inches in rain than I've received snow so far this year.

[Geos]

Managed to snow a little bit in northern WI and the UP of Michigan today/tonight. Not much by December standards though.