11/24 - 11/26 Winter Storm

[Tom]

I woke up several times last night with the winds roaring, branches snapping off my trees and hitting my roof.  It was crazy out there.  Temps have dropped into the upper 20's and a the snow is finally powdery.  I just measured 6" on my deck and with a little more yet to come.  All, in all, not bad but if you live closer to the city proper, man you got shafted.  I just heard ORD reported 7.4" so far which prob means a lot of mine compacted already due to the wet nature of the snow.

[snowstorm83]

Lol LPS closed today. Wish UNL would do the same. The sun came out yesterday and turned the snow into slush and it refroze making it icy, but it should be fine as long as people take it slow. Nothing Nebraskans can't handle right? 

[Tom]

As daylight emerges, now this is what a winter storm looks like with the winds cranking, powder flying everywhere and visibility dropping down to just a block.  Looks like DuPage is getting hit with some very heavy returns as the backside of the snow swings through.  @Tony/BrianJK, FV-Mike and the rest of the western burbs, how did you guys do?

[Tom]

It's gotta be pound town out in DuPage right now...N Cook getting rocked pretty good as the finale takes place...you can sorta see the lake playing somewhat of a role right now as 850's and ground temps crash on the backside of the system.

 

 

[Tom]

Those that live in the city are getting hit hard by heavy snow swing through E Cook...I bet its rip city...

 

 

[FV-Mike]

As daylight emerges, now this is what a winter storm looks like with the winds cranking, powder flying everywhere and visibility dropping down to just a block.  Looks like DuPage is getting hit with some very heavy returns as the backside of the snow swings through.  @Tony/BrianJK, FV-Mike and the rest of the western burbs, how did you guys do?

 

Got pounded out west. That last band was pretty neat. Haven't measured but I would say close to 10. Will get some #'s soon

[westMJim]

Good morning. I just took a snow depth measurement and here at my house it was only 2.4" of wet snow. At this time getting light snow with blowing snow. I would think that for here in West Michigan the GRR NWS made a very good call with their Winter Weather Advisory and not go with a Winter Storm Warning, The current temperature here with that snow and blowing snow is now at 28.2°

[Niko]

Finally have gone ova to heavy snow..temps at 35F. Looks like snow will continue throughout the day b4 tapering off later in the late afternoon hours.

[Tom]

Got pounded out west. That last band was pretty neat. Haven't measured but I would say close to 10. Will get some #'s soon

Awesome!  You guys did great out west...glad to hear!  With this last batch of snow, I think 8" at ORD will be about it...not bad at all....

[Niko]

Jaster- how much ya picked up buddy......

[Minny_Weather]

Lol LPS closed today. Wish UNL would do the same. The sun came out yesterday and turned the snow into slush and it refroze making it icy, but it should be fine as long as people take it slow. Nothing Nebraskans can't handle right?

I was hoping SCC would do the same simply so I didn't have to finish my lab today

[shakjen]

ended up with 4.5" here.

[Tom]

Thank God I shoveled last night bc today was a little better. Bottom half was slush/slop and top half was powder. The warm ground didn’t help and the last batch of snow that fell across NE IL dropped an additional 1” so I ended up with a compacted 7” on my deck. I think ORD will come in a little over 8” for a final tally. This storm played out very close to what happened with the Nov ‘15 storm system which also lacked any true arctic air nearby over here. If there was a HP to our north, this would have been a much larger snowstorm. Great memories and a storm I won’t forget. On to the next one!

[Hawkeye]

Congrats to all of you who cashed in.  It's tough to watch another 12-17" storm miss north or south of Cedar Rapids.  We'll probably struggle to get a 6-8" storm again this winter.

[Bryan1117]

Congrats to all of you who cashed in.  It's tough to watch another 12-17" storm miss north or south of Cedar Rapids.  We'll probably struggle to get a 6-8" storm again this winter.

Hawkeye, I am with you man... seems like its been the same story here in Omaha too. This one JUST missed us, however I feel that we are going to cash in later this Winter. It's still way too early to get frustrated, and this pattern is going to be loaded. 

[Minny_Weather]

It only dropped to 19°F at my place last night, I'm presuming because of unexpected cloud cover.

 

Sun was forecasted today, which I was worried would melt off the snow. However, it is flurrying right now and completely overcast. That leaves tomorrow as the most worrisome day of the week. If we can pull off a miracle, we may be able to make it into the weekend with most of the snowcover still intact. 21.8°F.

[Niko]

http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/Radar/cad.gif

 

I like that last batch coming. That looks impressive.

[Jaycee]

Roughly 1-2” at my place in Chicago lol. Bohemian Shaftcity if I’ve ever seen one! If it all would’ve been snow we’d be BURIED.

[CentralNebWeather]

It only dropped to 19°F at my place last night, I'm presuming because of unexpected cloud cover.

 

Sun was forecasted today, which I was worried would melt off the snow. However, it is flurrying right now and completely overcast. That leaves tomorrow as the most worrisome day of the week. If we can pull off a miracle, we may be able to make it into the weekend with most of the snowcover still intact. 21.8°F.

Then you have to hope it doesn't rain this weekend.  

[Niko]

Roughly 1-2” at my place in Chicago lol. Bohemian Shaftcity if I’ve ever seen one! If it all would’ve been snow we’d be BURIED.

Same here..all that water down the drain......

[Niko]

Clearly, a bust here in my area.....

 

Was hoping to break the all time record snowfall.

[East Dubzz]

Of course, the year I am done with school in the quad cities.. they get a foot snowstorm. My old school cancelled classes for the day. I think the best I got was half a day called off, and I still had two classes after that..

[jaster220]

LOL @ radar

 

Looks like a 200 mile long death band off of Saginaw Bay. Can't say I remember seeing that b4

 

Measured a solid 3" when I got out about 7 this morning. Usual issues of melting, compaction, plus the added wind makes it challenging to know exactly. Also, the continued snow will have settled no doubt by the time I can get home this evening. 

 

Takes me to top-5 Nov and looks like mid-winter again. GRR skates by a chin whisker on their WWA headline. Shoulda gone Warning imo but as we know, if it's not a12+ slam-dunk they'll hedge low, especially down our way along 94

[Niko]

Might be able to squeeze an inch or 2 later this afternoon before all is set n done.

[jaster220]

Good morning. I just took a snow depth measurement and here at my house it was only 2.4" of wet snow. At this time getting light snow with blowing snow. I would think that for here in West Michigan the GRR NWS made a very good call with their Winter Weather Advisory and not go with a Winter Storm Warning, The current temperature here with that snow and blowing snow is now at 28.2°

 

See my other post, but down my way along 94 it was bad enough that it could've gone either way. It was certainly more like a storm than our usual WWA snow event, tho the first 3-4 hrs snow fell with temps in the mid-30's so that hurt accum's. 

[CentralNebWeather]

Of course, the year I am done with school in the quad cities.. they get a foot snowstorm. My old school cancelled classes for the day. I think the best I got was half a day called off, and I still had two classes after that..

Our streets are a mess here and we only got 2 inches or so of snow but had school on time.  We had rain before that froze after the temp. plummeted.  The superintendent of our school district hates to call off school and usually says just take it slow and leave earlier.  We usually only get out if wind and visibility are an issue.  I was kind of surprised that Lincoln Public was called off.

[Niko]

http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/Radar/cad.gif

 

The last batch to my west can provide an inch or so at the most. Lets see what happens b4 we can finally say ba bye to this storm in the Gl's region.

[jaster220]

"It's a Storm by any other name" or however that saying goes. By these reports it certainly looks like a Storm Warning was proper for at least some of GRR's counties. I like how it says "STORM TOTAL" 

 

918
NWUS53 KGRR 261900
LSRGRR

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
200 PM EST MON NOV 26 2018

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

0159 PM HEAVY SNOW DOWLING 42.52N 85.25W
11/26/2018 M11.5 INCH BARRY MI PUBLIC

STORM TOTAL.

0120 PM HEAVY SNOW PORTLAND 42.87N 84.90W
11/26/2018 M8.0 INCH IONIA MI TRAINED SPOTTER

STORM TOTAL.

1100 AM HEAVY SNOW EATON RAPIDS 42.51N 84.65W
11/26/2018 M7.4 INCH EATON MI PUBLIC

STORM TOTAL.


&&

[jaster220]

http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/Radar/cad.gif

 

I like that last batch coming. That looks impressive.

 

Marshall caught it's last gasp before it went "poof" before it even made it to Jack-town!

 

Guessing my total will fall in the 4-5" range. Nice little "1st storm" of the winter and it looks like mid-winter outside. Can't wait to see my holiday decorations lit up this evening..

 

Edit - Found a rarity. An actual official report out of Marshall. Only seen this when a big storm hits. 90 mins after I measured 3" so feel pretty good that's where i was at 7 am.

 

0836 AM SNOW 1 NW MARSHALL 42.27N 84.97W

11/26/2018 M3.5 INCH CALHOUN MI CO-OP OBSERVER

 

STORM TOTAL SO FAR. CO-OP OBSERVER STATION

MARM4, MARSHALL.

[westMJim]

The finial snow fall total here for this event at my house is 5.5" with a range of less than 1" to drifts of 6.8" This was a very wet snow so there was a lot of compacting. Will see what the official snow fall was at GRR.  At the airport they reported 0.2" of snow fall before midnight. The current temperature here is 32° with cloudy skies.

[jaster220]

Looks to me like both SMI offices busted pretty badly. GRR obviously should've had a good chunk of their CWA in a Warning, while DTX looks like their Warning was a fail, at least from an amounts perspective

[Sciascia]

8.4” is the official total at O’Hare.

[Niko]

Looks to me like both SMI offices busted pretty badly. GRR obviously should've had a good chunk of their CWA in a Warning, while DTX looks like their Warning was a fail, at least from an amounts perspective

Couldn't have said it better...I just got slush...

[Niko]

Marshall caught it's last gasp before it went "poof" before it even made it to Jack-town!

 

Guessing my total will fall in the 4-5" range. Nice little "1st storm" of the winter and it looks like mid-winter outside. Can't wait to see my holiday decorations lit up this evening..

 

Edit - Found a rarity. An actual official report out of Marshall. Only seen this when a big storm hits. 90 mins after I measured 3" so feel pretty good that's where i was at 7 am.

 

0836 AM SNOW 1 NW MARSHALL 42.27N 84.97W

11/26/2018 M3.5 INCH CALHOUN MI CO-OP OBSERVER

 

STORM TOTAL SO FAR. CO-OP OBSERVER STATION

MARM4, MARSHALL.

You did pretty decent snowfallwise.

 

Post your decorations if you can......Probably looks awesome

[East Dubzz]

8.4” is the official total at O’Hare.

Not bad for a November snowstorm that may have “underperformed.”

[East Dubzz]

I found this quote pretty crazy from this morning’s AFD out of DVN:

 

“The powerful early season winter storm that produced blizzard conditions (gusts of 40-45mph), a heavy snow band of 8 to 14+ inches, and quite a bit of thundersnow, is finally winding down. Incredibly, some places near the Quad Cities had 0.75" of rain before changing to snow, which prevented storm totals from eclipsing 20 inches.”

[Niko]

Too bad there wasnt a lot of cold air around for this storm, otherwise, totals would have been substantial for many

[jaster220]

Too bad there wasnt a lot of cold air around for this storm, otherwise, totals would have been substantial for many

 

Like that cold the day before Turkey Day. Can just imagine if we had that air mass to work with, this would've easily been double what happened. Timing's everything they say. The good news is, looking at the 2 major storms so far, moisture availability shouldn't be an issue so eventually I would expect one of these storms will indeed tangle with a truly arctic air mass and go nuclear

[Niko]

Like that cold the day before Turkey Day. Can just imagine if we had that air mass to work with, this would've easily been double what happened. Timing's everything they say. The good news is, looking at the 2 major storms so far, moisture availability shouldn't be an issue so eventually I would expect on of these storms will indeed tangle with a truly arctic air mass and go nuclear

Exactly...its a matter of time b4 we get the big dogs coming our way

[Stormy]

Hi everyone.... this is my first time posting on here though I've been lurking on this forum for several years already. It seems I'm to busy to keep up with all the comments so decided I don't have time to figure out this site or post anything either, plus I had problems logging in. I also used to be on Schnack's chat and I'm sure Hawkeye knows me yet! I live approximately 15 miles sw of downtown Ia City. I just wanted to comment belatedly that I was in the jack zone from this snowstorm (just barely) and ended up with right around 12"!! Liquid equivalent 1.63" includes 0.20" rain before changeover. A good old fashioned snowstorm for sure! Looks and feels like mid winter.