Plains/MW/GL Weekend Light Snow Event 1/21-1/22

[jaster220]

53 minutes ago, OttumwaSnomow said:

Nice long duration  light  snow event here of 2.2" total. Snowed 5 pm to 8 am..  oddly for the 3rd time this season  we got a burst of snow in the 5 to 8 am time period. Making  it very difficult  to have properties looking  nice  by 7 to 9 am. Sitting at 11.2" for the season.

NOT oddly, that's your LRC working for ya. 

49 minutes ago, Niko said:

I've always liked getting an appetizer storm, followed by a much bigger storm a few days down the road. Great way to enjoy winter weather. Also, the great thing about this is that cold air remains locked and it just gets even colder down the road w/ potentially even more snowstorms to be coming. Finally, the pattern has changed!!!  The 3 week torture has ended ladies and gentlemen.

Like @Tom said, it's been about a month since any real snow has fallen. And we lost that snow 5 days later. It has felt like 3 mos lol since it was white here at Christmas

[jaster220]

Nice presentation. See ya back here in about 72 hrs?

 

[Hawkeye]

I received 1.1" of snow overnight.  Like some models were suggesting, a bit more fell just north and south.  It's just a weak system, though, so a few tenths are irrelevant.

[jaster220]

10 hours ago, Stacsh said:

Congrats.  A polished turd of a winter.  

The saddest part is how much stupid salt the contractors spread around here for the smallest of snows. And today's minor (major this season) event will have tons sitting everywhere when the Wed storm rolls through. WIth so little winter the past 3 seasons, they prolly have an over-stock of salt and seems they can't get rid of it fast enough. In my youth, yes they used salt on the roads a lot, but I don't remember it on every square inch of parking lots, sidewalks, door-steps and such. It's ridiculous after a small event you're walking on salt and white bleh for days. I know we have at least one contractor here in this Sub. They probably pitch the "we'll save you from slip-n-fall lawsuits" to their business cliental. 

[bud2380]

Had about 1.5” here. I measured 1.3” but I was late getting out to measure so I know there was some compaction by then. Fun snow. It’s just wet enough to make snowballs and a snowman. The kids took the sledding tube down the hill in the backyard. So they had fun. 
 

Picture from last night. Looked like a snow globe. 

[Stacsh]

Snow is now melting faster than it can accumulate on grass now that it’s prime daylight  

[Stacsh]

47 minutes ago, jaster220 said:

The saddest part is how much stupid salt the contractors spread around here for the smallest of snows. And today's minor (major this season) event will have tons sitting everywhere when the Wed storm rolls through. WIth so little winter the past 3 seasons, they prolly have an over-stock of salt and seems they can't get rid of it fast enough. In my youth, yes they used salt on the roads a lot, but I don't remember it on every square inch of parking lots, sidewalks, door-steps and such. It's ridiculous after a small event you're walking on salt and white bleh for days. I know we have at least one contractor here in this Sub. They probably pitch the "we'll save you from slip-n-fall lawsuits" to their business cliental. 

No doubt.  The ground is already warm enough right now.  

[Tom]

Measured 1.5" on the deck and I'm sure some melting and compaction took place.  I think the NAM hit this spot on 12-24 hours to the event.  HRRR was always to far south and never blew up any moisture on the northern side.  Might have to keep that in mind for the next system.

[WinterSquall23]

58 minutes ago, Tom said:

Measured 1.5" on the deck and I'm sure some melting and compaction took place.  I think the NAM hit this spot on 12-24 hours to the event.  HRRR was always to far south and never blew up any moisture on the northern side.  Might have to keep that in mind for the next system.

Looking like a Charlie Brown Christmas over here.  Winds are calm and big flakes falling down.  Trees are coated.  Winter is back! 

[mlgamer]

Had 1" of snow on the ground this morning from the overnight snowfall (I feel like I'm the King of the 1" Snowfalls!). It was stuck to all of the trees and everything like the pic @OttumwaSnomow posted earlier. Very pretty and picturesque.

[Stacsh]

Our inch of snow has melted completely even though it’s still snowing.  

[Niko]

DTW Metro received 3.3" today from this weak system. Not too shabby. Definitely an overachiever.

SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN -- TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION STATIONS
:....................................................................
:       STATION               MAX / MIN  / 7 PM / 24-HR / SNOW/ SNOW
:        NAME                 TEMP/ TEMP / TEMP / PRECIP/ FALL/ DEPTH
:....................................................................
WHKM4: NWS White Lake      :   32 /  28  /  29  / 0.07  /  1.3/ 1
ADG  : Adrian Airport      :   33 /  29  /  30  / 0.08
ARB  : Ann Arbor Airport   :   32 /  29  /  31  / 0.11
BAX  :*Bad Axe Airport     :   30 /  25  /  25  /
CFS  :*Caro Airport-Tuscola:   35 /  31  /  31  /
DET  : Detroit City Airport:   35 /  31  /  33  / 0.15
DTW  : Detroit Metro Airprt:   34 /  29  /  31  / 0.20  /  3.3/ 3

[WinterSquall23]

12 hours ago, Niko said:

DTW Metro received 3.3" today from this weak system. Not too shabby. Definitely an overachiever.

SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN -- TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION STATIONS
:....................................................................
:       STATION               MAX / MIN  / 7 PM / 24-HR / SNOW/ SNOW
:        NAME                 TEMP/ TEMP / TEMP / PRECIP/ FALL/ DEPTH
:....................................................................
WHKM4: NWS White Lake      :   32 /  28  /  29  / 0.07  /  1.3/ 1
ADG  : Adrian Airport      :   33 /  29  /  30  / 0.08
ARB  : Ann Arbor Airport   :   32 /  29  /  31  / 0.11
BAX  :*Bad Axe Airport     :   30 /  25  /  25  /
CFS  :*Caro Airport-Tuscola:   35 /  31  /  31  /
DET  : Detroit City Airport:   35 /  31  /  33  / 0.15
DTW  : Detroit Metro Airprt:   34 /  29  /  31  / 0.20  /  3.3/ 3

Wow! Quite impressive to squeeze that amount of snow with little moisture to work with. ! 

[WinterSquall23]

DTW 

Cold arctic air will infiltrate the region for the end of the week
with the models showing broad polar vorticity reservoir reaching
down into the Gulf of Mexico. Plenty of shortwaves to monitor within
the trough which should keep snow showers/flurries around both
Thursday and Friday. A stronger arctic intrusion will then be
possible for the weekend.

 

Thats a strong polar influence! 

[MIKEKC]

Kind of ended up with a surprise snow Saturday night....local forecasters gave up on it as we just had some light rain/snow throughout the day, but, the storm held together and produce 6 hours of snow in my part of the city from 9:00pm to 3:00am, laying down a good coating across north KC. I measured 1.6 inches at my house and we had slushy streets in the middle of night. Covered the grass and the trees, it was quite beautiful Sunday morning. 

40 miles to my north near the St. Joe area, reports of 3-5 inches. 

Quite the storm for western KS through north central KS up to Northern MO.

[Tom]

ORD officially tacked on 1.5" of snow yesterday, the largest single day snowfall of the season.  Pretty sad, nothing more than a stat padder and also lift the mood as the snow was flying.  

[Bryan1117]

21 minutes ago, Tom said:

ORD officially tacked on 1.5" of snow yesterday, the largest single day snowfall of the season.  Pretty sad, nothing more than a stat padder and also lift the mood as the snow was flying.  

I feel your pain Tom… just hoping things change next week - the last thing we need here is cold weather with no snow. Two consecutive Winters of this in a row is slowly draining the optimism out of weather watchers/ snow lovers like myself and others from Omaha/ Lincoln on this board.

[Niko]

3 hours ago, Ferndale_man said:

Wow! Quite impressive to squeeze that amount of snow with little moisture to work with. ! 

Yep. The NAM nailed it. Its quite a wintry scene over here.

[MIKEKC]

Looking at totals close to KC from Saturday's snow, seeing reports of 8 inches of snow 40-50 miles north and north east of KC. Like i said, I received 1.6 inches for my area of KC, but, not to far away, it was a true snow storm! 

 

So close!!!

[OttumwaSnomow]

Looking at my 2.2" for this weak event. Seems my area continues  to eek by with  low but steady system  providing  frozen precip.  We have plowed or salted 7 systems. The 2 pre xmas ones were long duration during which snow stopped a began again which this  sunday system also did.  Comparing this area with places both east, west and south of me, Im happy  with  amount of activity albeit weak as usual.   Season total of snow and sleet now at 11.2 inches.