Jan. 22nd-23rd Winter Storm

[james1976]

Radar is weird with all these stray bands

[gosaints]

 

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Ya its wired, but its also exactly what the hrrr predicted

[james1976]

Radar is starting to fire to my SW. See if it makes it here.

[Bryan1117]

Snowing really breaking out and filling in Eastern Nebraska, looks like the HRRR had too much of a south east bias.

[Wintersno]

Heavy snow in North Lincoln! At least a inch has fallen.

[james1976]

So even the short term models are struggling. All about the radar now.

[dubuque473]

My only problem with Schnack is that he hates winter. Swails loves it and I think that shows in his blogs and extra work he seems to put into his forecasts.

[Iowawx]

All of the sudden, big flakes just started falling here.

[Stormhunter87]

That band just to my sse really exploded, while the northern stretch is thinning out. Southwest development looks good so far though

[Stormhunter87]

Hmmm very interesting the nam supports this band better than the hrrr, and matching better so far.

[james1976]

Looks like Lincoln to Omaha is getting rocked.

[BMT]

Snow has started in Cedar Rapids

[badgerwx]

Don’t like Schnack? I always thought he was kind of a dickwad, but he seemed to be pretty good at what he did.

Not a big fan lol he always seemed like a big time dork. Did a tour of KWWL back in middle school as a part of our weather club and was kind of a prick.

[badgerwx]

Craig was great. I wonder where hes at now.

Still in the Cedar Falls area. Runs his own weather briefing company and is executive director of some Academy of Sciences in that area.

[badgerwx]

Craig was great. I wonder where hes at now.

Still in the Cedar Falls area. Runs his own weather briefing company and is executive director of some Academy of Sciences in that area.

[East Dubzz]

Not a big fan lol he always seemed like a big time dork. Did a tour of KWWL back in middle school as a part of our weather club and was kind of a prick.

Fair. He always gave that vibe to me as well. But, like I said, I always thought he was good at his job.

[DSM WeatherNut]

Snow beginning in Des Moines also...Let it snow!

[badgerwx]

Fair. He always gave that vibe to me as well. But, like I said, I always thought he was good at his job.

Nah I think the same. I miss the old mets of eastern Iowa TV lol

[snowstorm83]

Ripping here for sure, hopefully it doesn't fall apart.

[gimmesnow]

Latest winter warning upped totals to 4 to 10 inches. Wow.

[dubuque473]

Snowing decent now.

[Minny_Weather]

Coming down hard here, and it's almost as if there's no wind at all. Quarter sized flakes and pure powder. Simply beautiful outside and it doesn't look to let up anytime soon. 25.0*F.

[East Dubzz]

My only problem with Schnack is that he hates winter. Swails loves it and I think that shows in his blogs and extra work he seems to put into his forecasts.

That’s a good point. He did always seem to have a negative attitude about winter storms. Though I wasn’t sure if that was the way he always was, since I don’t follow as much during the other parts of the year.

[dubuque473]

He mentioned it in his chat room one time, that he didn’t like winter. To each his own.

[Wartburger]

I like Schnack and his "say it as it is" personality.  However, I hated how guarded he was with his forecasts.  He typically gives a blanket forecast for large parts of his viewing area.  Large areas getting 2-6 inches of snow "with locally higher amounts possible".

[Stormhunter87]

Dry air looks to be filling in hmmm

[Minny_Weather]

Dry air looks to be filling in hmmm

Yeah I jinxed it by saying it doesn't look to end any time soon. It should be just a brief break.

[East Dubzz]

Coming down a little better than I expected it to be at this point.

[Hawkeye]

As a couple CR posters above mentioned, I had a solid light snow shower for a bit.  Radar shows better returns moving back in, so we should get back into some light snow.  I wish the main plume of moisture over southeast Iowa was moving more northward.  Models have that plume veering east before reaching CR.

 

Regarding the local mets, Terry Swails and Joe Winters are snow geeks.  It's not a bad thing to have the third one be less of a snow geek and maybe more conservative.  Schnack has been pretty good with his forecasts over the years.  Heck, I always go conservative with our snow events.

[East Dubzz]

As a couple CR posters above mentioned, I had a solid light snow shower for a bit. Radar shows better returns moving back in, so we should get back into some light snow. I wish the main plume of moisture over southeast Iowa was moving more north. Models have that plume veering east before reaching CR.

 

Regarding the local mets, Terry Swails and Joe Winters are snow geeks. It's not a bad thing to have the third one be less of a snow geek and maybe more conservative. Schnack has been pretty good with his forecasts over the years. Heck, I always go conservative with our snow events.

Yeah, going conservative on forecasts in this area is usually the best way to go.

[james1976]

As a couple CR posters above mentioned, I had a solid light snow shower for a bit. Radar shows better returns moving back in, so we should get back into some light snow. I wish the main plume of moisture over southeast Iowa was moving more northward. Models have that plume veering east before reaching CR.

 

Regarding the local mets, Terry Swails and Joe Winters are snow geeks. It's not a bad thing to have the third one be less of a snow geek and maybe more conservative. Schnack has been pretty good with his forecasts over the years. Heck, I always go conservative with our snow events.

Schnack is the most conservative and usually ends up more correct.

[Hawkeye]

The HRRR keeps drying eastern Iowa more each run.  The 19z has Cedar Rapids down to about 0.40".  The heavier precip is now over closer to the river.  It drops off to very little nw of Waterloo.

 

We finally got a nearly ideal track, but the storm just isn't strong enough.  The cold-sector precip doesn't become quite as widespread and strong as it could be.

[snowstorm83]

Has lightened up some, but still coming down at a decent clip. Hopefully it fills back in more.

[shakjen]

Light rain here now, but doesn't seem to be freezing like it was when it was lighter. Puddles are forming on the sidewalk

[Hawkeye]

As radar has filled in, light snow has started again here.  It should last for a while this time.  It's too bad the wind will not remain this light.

[Craig-OmahaWX]

Wow, heaviest snow band I've been in all winter! It's puking snow outside. Hoping to see continual SW precipitation development.

[Tony]

Another county in N.IL added to WSW

[Hawkeye]

Wow, heaviest snow band I've been in all winter! It's puking snow outside. Hoping to see continual SW precipitation development.

 

Yeah, large flakes are dumping at Creighton U.

 

Here's the Creighton webcam.

 

http://typo3.creighton.edu/?id=68712

[bud2380]

Point forecast reduced to 4" here.  

[WBadgersW]

Roads are becoming snow covered - We'll see how this goes