March 2023 Observations and Discussion

[Clinton]

1 hour ago, Jayhawker85 said:

This would have a outside chance of happening if it wasn’t late March

Or if it was a different year all together lol.

[bud2380]

Euro clinging on to the Iowa City area.

 

[MIKEKC]

HRRR coming in hot! Heavy snow

[Clinton]

Tornado Alley may light up late next week.  Day 6 outlook from the SPC.

 

[Money]

Picked up 3-4 so far overnight 

[Tom]

S Wisco is getting crushed...this system (like many this year) took a jog north last minute...MKE, Madison and up into Greenbay will do great....

93 years ago, Chicago had the "Big Snow"....

[Tom]

7 minutes ago, Money said:

Picked up 3-4 so far overnight 

That heavy band is parked right over your back yard....

[MKEstorm]

I measured 4 inches so far as of 7:00 a.m.

[Hawkeye]

6-9 inches fell east of Cedar Rapids and northwest of the Quad Cities overnight as a very heavy band set up over that area.  4 inches fell near Iowa City and 2.5 just barely east of Cedar Rapids.  I did not see a single flake.

[bud2380]

On 3/22/2023 at 1:34 PM, Iowawx said:

32 minutes ago, Hawkeye said:

6-9 inches fell east of Cedar Rapids and northwest of the Quad Cities overnight as a very heavy band set up over that area.  4 inches fell near Iowa City and 2.5 just barely east of Cedar Rapids.  I did not see a single flake.

 

Wow! Not a single flake there? We got about an inch here. Can’t believe how heavy the snow fall just barely to our east. Crazy. So close yet so far. 

[Money]

Seeing several reports in Madison of 8+ inches already. Definitely a over-performer 

[Hawkeye]

12.5 inches southeast of Dubuque!!!!

[Hawkeye]

Now 13 and 15 inch reports.  Unreal.

[Hawkeye]

Reports of 16-17" in nw Illinois.  This is crazy!.

[Andie]

3 hours ago, Clinton said:

Tornado Alley may light up late next week.  Day 6 outlook from the SPC.

 

Don’t say that!  
Hopefully the worst will stay west or north. 
We got < .5”.   Pathetic.  We need a slow rain event.  This strike and dash east stuff isn’t helping at all.  

[Iowawx]

We just missed out here in CR. Yet another close call. The snow will melt very fast anyway, but it would have been nice to get all that snow here. Models had this band of snow centered right over us a few days ago but of course, veered off to the east.

Perhaps we can get some snow tomorrow from a little system here.  

[Money]

15 minutes ago, Hawkeye said:

Reports of 16-17" in nw Illinois.  This is crazy!.

Heavy rates will always overcome warm ground temps etc 

[Hawkeye]

I have never even measured 12 inches in my entire life.

[Hawkeye]

9.5" in Davenport.

[Stormy]

On 3/24/2023 at 8:12 AM, Tom said:

@Sparky, I was talking with one of the neighbors in the jacuzzi yesterday afternoon and he mentioned that the city of Fountain Hills will be building a brand new astronomy science center.  This will be a 1st class observatory dome where your going to be able to see all sorts of planets, galaxies and stellar objects.  What a pleasant surprise!  The location is right next to me in an empty plot of land that has been fenced off.   I was wondering what they would be building and low and behold it will feature this amazing science facility and the largest telescope in the Valley!

 

https://bramnicklawaz.com/arizona-real-estate/an-18-million-discovery-project-proposed-for-fountain-hills/

 

https://darkskycenter.org/

That's great! Will be something I'd wanna check out once it's finished and open. 

[bud2380]

 

I drove to the east side of Iowa city and took some pictures and this video of the snow. 

[Stormy]

Light rain changed over to snow by around 1:00am, with big wet flakes dumping down for quite awhile last night, even here on the sharp wnw side of the defo band. Ended up with exactly 2" on elevated and grassy surfaces. Only about 0.09" rain before changeover with total liquid equivalent of 0.52". I also melted two core samples of 2" snow depth which amounted to 0.34",  just to get an idea, though I'm sure quite a bit of it melted as it fell, so would be more. Snowfall rates must have been phenomenal just to my east where bright orange echoes showed on radar! It's rapidly melting as I write after beautiful scenery this morning. 

[jcwxguy]

[Stormy]

2 minutes ago, jcwxguy said:

Weenie band. 

[Madtown]

From 2 nights ago. Most incredible I have seen.

[Iceresistance]

Just saw a snowfall report of 20 inches near Appleton, WI!

[Hawkeye]

Madison, Wi got 12.1", the biggest March one-day snowfall on record.  Wow!

There will never be an over-performer anything like that here.

[jcwxguy]

Quote

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
312 PM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023

IAZ055-056-069-079-NEZ044-045-050>053-065>067-078-260415-
/O.NEW.KOAX.WW.Y.0012.230326T0900Z-230326T1500Z/
Harrison-Shelby-Pottawattamie-Mills-Dodge-Washington-Butler-
Saunders-Douglas-Sarpy-Seward-Lancaster-Cass-Saline-
Including the cities of Missouri Valley, Woodbine, Logan, Dunlap,
Harlan, Council Bluffs, Glenwood, Fremont, Blair, David City,
Wahoo, Ashland, Yutan, Omaha, Bellevue, Papillion, La Vista,
Seward, Milford, Lincoln, Plattsmouth, Crete, and Wilber
312 PM CDT Sat Mar 25 2023

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 10 AM CDT
SUNDAY...

* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 1 to 4
  inches.

* WHERE...Portions of southwest Iowa and east central and
  southeast Nebraska, including the greater Omaha and Lincoln
  metro areas.

* WHEN...From 4 AM to 10 AM CDT Sunday.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions where snowfall
  accumulates.

 

[CentralNebWeather]

Of course we have prom tonight. 

[CentralNebWeather]

[OttumwaSnomow]

Crazy day! I had heavy rain just after midnight.  Then snow of half inch. .55 melted precip. Then 55 degrees this pm. Drove to Fairfield  iowa clearly  4 to 5 inches! So report  of 4.7" there. 10" in cuad cities, a 17" nw Illinois  and even a 20" in Wisconsin.. more snow along i80 sun? Nuts!

[Money]

5 hours ago, Iceresistance said:

Just saw a snowfall report of 20 inches near Appleton, WI!

They were under a winter weather advisory last night for 2-4 lol

[Stormy]

The snow has all melted here this afternoon and it got up to 54⁰.

 

[CentralNebWeather]

1/2 mile visibility, heavy snow. Roads a mess. We are sponsors at Prom. We are very concerned about kids driving later after Prom ends. Our principal will be making an appointment later about safe driving. 

[Money]

Has there ever been a bigger forecast bust than the Green Bay Area? They were under a WWA for 2-4

 

[Money]

[Andie]

We get another chance at Thurs/Fri rain.  40 & 30 %.
I hope our luck holds out. We need it. 

[CentralNebWeather]

3-4” easily already as of 8:30 pm as the snow continues. 

[Andie]

https://deadline.com/2023/03/mississippi-meteorologist-prays-on-air-as-tornado-heads-for-small-town-1235310110/

Something you see every day.  
Meteorologist prays on live TV

[jcwxguy]

maybe we can sqeeze out a few inches here in fremont/omaha based off nam and fv3 

 

[jcwxguy]

[james1976]

Did any model get last night's storm right?

[Timmy Supercell]

Oh not again... I mean we had some wind, but not the highest I've seen.

[jcwxguy]

rdps

[jcwxguy]

[CentralNebWeather]

 

[jcwxguy]

[Black Hole]

Looking ahead, the next impactful severe weather event will come next Thursday-Friday. I wouldn't be surprised if the same areas that got hit hard over Dixie get it again. It's questionable how much actually develops in OK. 

[CentralNebWeather]

Heavy snow beginning again. Treacherous road conditions. Our city streets are a mess. Highways are rough.  One blessing, tremendous amount of moisture in the preceding rainfall than this heavy, wet snow. 

[CentralNebWeather]