12/01 - 12/02 Winter Rain / Snow Storm

[westMJim]

Had some very heavy rain and a couple flashes, some street flooding during the heaviest of the rain. Along with a cold east wind and a temperature of 35° it makes one raw night. 

[Minny_Weather]

32.0*F. This basically guarantees we are done with rain, and roads are about to become a shitshow.

[Niko]

Heavy rain and wind briefly moved through.....some thunder in the distance and temp at 35F.....nice way to welcome met Winter

[gabel23]

This is one of the most unusual winter storms that I can recall. I had 1.7 inches of rain overnight, 2 inches of slush this morning, then will probably tack on 6” of snow over all that. I have probably 3 inches of the fluffy snow that’s blowing around pretty good. I couldn’t imagine what the roads are like, especially county roads. I just can’t believe the nws downgraded us to an advisory, it’s the worst it’s been all day.

[Minny_Weather]

Starting to accumulate on the grass. Hearing reports that roads are slick. I'm about to take a walk to see for myself. 31.8*F.

[Tom]

A cool shot of a lighting strike over the city courtesy of Barry Butler...

 

[snowstorm83]

Snowing hard outside and already accumulating. Nice to see, but it'll just be another 2-4" in the books.

[Minny_Weather]

Can the person in Lincoln pointing a blowdryer up in the air knock it off please? You're making the flake size puny and giving us bad reflectivities.

[Minny_Weather]

Okay this is actually very, very irritating. Reflectivities are vaporizing as they get here on radar. We could have gotten a solid hour of heavy snow had it stayed intact but now we'll be lucky to get anything larger than pixie dust. 31.5*F.

[Stormhunter87]

Just had to drive home. Good rate of snowfall and roads are covered here. A little blowing snow.

[Minny_Weather]

Radar still sucks for us. Good returns continue to die right as they get here. I'm going to bed. 31.3*F.

[Bryan1117]

Radar still sucks for us. Good returns continue to die right as they get here. I'm going to bed. 31.3*F.

Wife and I are staying in downtown Omaha tonight and it is snowing like crazy here.

[snowstorm83]

Omaha finally hit while Lincoln just gets light returns? Sad!

[Craig-OmahaWX]

Between 2-3 inches here. Looks like another 4 inches through tomorrow. I really feel for you Lincoln peeps! I know how it feels...

[Craig-OmahaWX]

Measured 4-4.5 inches. Looks like we may pick up another 3 inches through the day.

[Craig-OmahaWX]

6 inches here now. What a pleasent surprise lol

[Minny_Weather]

Looks like 2" outside from eyeballing it. Grass is barely covered. I'm pissed. We should NOT have gotten that screwed. The Omadome just shifted here and we got light returns all night. 29.5*F.

[Bryan1117]

I will say I will not complain after this snowy surprise this system dished out here. Feel for our Lincoln peeps though for getting the shaft.

 

In downtown Omaha looks like a solid 5 to 6 inches of snow on the ground and maybe 1-2 to come. It’s a Winter Wonderland out here, will post some pictures later.

[Minny_Weather]

This is what radar looked last night. Effing ridiculous. Look how everything fizzled immediately before it got to LNK. I wish I could say that doesn't happen literally every snow event, but it does.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1069216173621956608

[gosaints]

8 inches of cement. Nice storm could pick up another inch today...

[Minny_Weather]

IF we get very, very lucky we could limp our way to another half inch today but it doesn't look very likely. Dry air can go die. 28.4*F.

[bud2380]

Snow is falling in Cedar Rapids according to a friend. Giant snow globe flakes. Any of our CR posters getting anything? This is on the north side of town.

[james1976]

Nice flakes here. Maybe a half inch so far. Storm is fizzling though so we'll see how it goes today. Nice to see flakes and a white ground regardless!

[Minny_Weather]

Any >15 dBZ returns are still fizzling as they get here, then re-strengthening after they pass here. This is unbelievable. We need to launch a scientific theory into a dome over Lincoln.

 

Light snow still coming down. I'm wanting to at least cover whatever grass isn't covered. 28.6*F.

[james1976]

Just measured 0.7". Comin down pretty decent and wind picked up. Still at 32 degrees.

[jaster220]

Any >15 dBZ returns are still fizzling as they get here, then re-strengthening after they pass here. This is unbelievable. We need to launch a scientific theory into a dome over Lincoln.

 

Light snow still coming down. I'm wanting to at least cover whatever grass isn't covered. 28.6*F.

 

KLNK suffer from down-sloping by any chance? Doesn't take much drop in elevation depending on conditions. Just a random thought cuz we see that in portions of The Mitt

[jaster220]

This is what radar looked last night. Effing ridiculous. Look how everything fizzled immediately before it got to LNK. I wish I could say that doesn't happen literally every snow event, but it does.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1069216173621956608

 

Ultimate shaft job loop. You can claim the blue ribbon for that at least..

 

Meanwhile, 52F and sunny here. Nice April morning. Neighbor dude has his fishing boat hitched-up and ready to go. My how the tables have flipped

[Tom]

22 Tornados reported in Illinois yesterday. My backyard looks like a pond, soupy ground, lots of leaves from my neighbors tree, broken tree branches...yuck, once it dries out it looks like I have a lot of yard work to do and tidy up the back and front yard. The entire neighborhood looks like this after the snow melt.

[Hawkeye]

I picked up 0.81" of rain.  A couple hours ago it changed to snow.  The flakes were a good size, but it was pretty light, so nothing stuck.  Now it's just flurries.

 

This little bit of light snow is the first snow I've seen fall this season. 

[james1976]

22 Tornados reported in Illinois yesterday. My backyard looks like a pond, soupy ground, lots of leaves from my neighbors tree, broken tree branches...yuck, once it dro a out it looks like I have a lot of yard work to do and tidy up the back and front yard. The entire neighborhood looks like this after the snow melt.

22?! Dang. Too bad about the yard especially after already doing fall clean up.

[westMJim]

Here in my area i received 0.57" of rain, Had a thundershower last nigh with very heavy rain fall, The current temperature here is 41.4° with cloudy skies, There are trace amounts of snow on the ground and of course the snow piles are still there.

[Tom]

22?! Dang. Too bad about the yard especially after already doing fall clean up.

Ya, crazy stat you typically see in the Spring let alone in the month of December.  I learned that IL has had Tornado's in 3 out of the past 4 years which is an odd stat as well.  As for the clean up, ya, that Blizzard last weekend has left its mark with damage and sloppy leftovers!

[CentralNebWeather]

Went into church at 9 am and came out at 10:30. Got about an inch of snow during that time as a band set up over our county. Crazy, weird storm.

[james1976]

Snowing harder again although the temp went back up to 33.

[Stormhunter87]

That's a nice little band moving towards Lincoln just had a quick burst here but back to light snow. Omaha lucked out on the band late last night for sure.

[Minny_Weather]

That's a nice little band moving towards Lincoln just had a quick burst here but back to light snow. Omaha lucked out on the band late last night for sure.

Yeah, looks like it's gonna hit my quadrant of the city too. It's weakened a bit but it will be pretty much the best return we have seen this whole time so I'll take it.

[Minny_Weather]

LOL. Spoke too soon. Shaft is eating up THOSE returns too.

[Minny_Weather]

Just took a few measurements. Low end is 1.5". High end was 4". I'm going with a 2.5" tally here, though I have a gut feeling that may be too high.

 

Pixie dust still falling here. May get another couple tenths of an inch but I don't think we'll fare much better.

[james1976]

I ended with 0.8" putting my season total at exactly 5.0" so far.

[Andie]

22 Tornados reported in Illinois yesterday. My backyard looks like a pond, soupy ground, lots of leaves from my neighbors tree, broken tree branches...yuck, once it dries out it looks like I have a lot of yard work to do and tidy up the back and front yard. The entire neighborhood looks like this after the snow melt.

Is it just me Tom, or has the entire tornado alley sector moved? 

 

The DFW area used to be able to count on at least 2 funnel clouds, if not tornados, every spring.  Today it's as bland as ever.  Even hail is not so common.  I'm not complaining at all, but things have shifted down here in the southern plains.

 

What's your opinion on our weather patterns in Texas in the future?