Jan. 22nd-23rd Winter Storm

[dubuque473]

Looks beautiful out. Snowing heavy..white gold.

[dubuque473]

Hard to tell what I have so far but we picked up a decent amount, nothing crazy.

 

With these 2 snowfalls, chance of record lows Thursday, chance of a clipper on Friday...sitting on a nice snowpack.

 

I am happy.

[VMB443]

Snowing now really good. Was wrong on my earlier estimate - I’d say we had a good three to three and a half already. Schools haven’t been closed, we’ll see if that ends up being a mistake.

[Tom]

When I went to bed last night, the massive flakes switched to light rain around 10:15pm.  After looking at the radar loop, it didn't look like much rain fell throughout the night.  However, to my delight, I'm waking up to big snow flakes falling from the sky!  Pretty lucky to be getting snow falling right now as I thought for sure I'd be getting rain.

 

Measured a little over 1" of slop...hoping to score a couple inches from this main wave of snow through the morning hours.

[james1976]

Woke up to poundtown. Heavy band rotated up over my area.

[Tom]

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Now that's a healthy snow cover Grizz!  Congrats!

[Tom]

Woke up to poundtown. Heavy band rotated up over my area.

Looks like the ULL is tracking right through DSM right now.  This is the location that usually brings the best snowfall.  Congrats to you guys out west!

[ToastedRavs]

Looks like the ULL is tracking right through DSM right now. This is the location that usually brings the best snowfall. Congrats to you guys out west!

Definitely is. I am just SW of Des Moines and picked up 1.2" in about 70 minutes

[Tom]

Definitely is. I am just SW of Des Moines and picked up 1.2" in about 70 minutes

Awesome!  I'm not complaining over here and glad the switch-over happened quicker than forecasted.  Just glad it is snowing and not raining on our deep snow pack.  How much have you scored from this system?  How much snow OTG?

[ToastedRavs]

Awesome! I'm not complaining over here and glad the switch-over happened quicker than forecasted. Just glad it is snowing and not raining on our deep snow pack. How much have you scored from this system? How much snow OTG?

I am at 5.3" so far. Still coming down. Have a foot on the ground. NWS tweeted out that Albia, Iowa last hour was at 6 for the storm and 20!!!! On the ground. They've been hammered SE of Des Moines all year

[Tom]

I am at 5.3" so far. Still coming down. Have a foot on the ground. NWS tweeted out that Albia, Iowa last hour was at 6 for the storm and 20!!!! On the ground. They've been hammered SE of Des Moines all year

Unbelievable!  What a turnaround us peeps in the heartland have enjoyed since Winter finally decided to arrive around Jan 11th.  #BuildTheGlacier...even though we have not seen that "Bomb" cyclone this month, we have been in the right spot to track winter storms.  Ready for more???  As for MBY, I haven't measured exactly, but from the freezing drizzle yesterday and the quick 1" of snow, my snow pack is about 7-8" I'd say.  I'll take a measurement later today.  I'm thrilled that it's snowing this morning and thankful Mother Nature has decided to have the SLP track just south of the city. 

Check out how close it is tracking across the south side of Chicago.  Winds have turned out of the N and this map clearly shows where the SLP is located.

 

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-90.76,40.66,3000

[james1976]

2.2" so far and still pounding. Unfortunately doesn't look to last long though.

[VMB443]

Up to about 4.5 here - should snow for most of the rest of the morning off and on - they even got around to cancelling school.

[GDR]

Another 6plus here I’m just buried the past couple of weeks

[james1976]

Still ripping. Wish this would last a while!

[snowstorm83]

Super confused because KLNK only measured 1.7". I'm going to guess that's an error going to be corrected later because even if you measured in the lowest spot possible you would have to get twice that...

[james1976]

2.7" now

[james1976]

8.1" south of Ottumwa, IA

[james1976]

Just hit 2.9" which ties my highest snowfall of the season and still looks like a bit to go with this last band.

[james1976]

6.8" Quad Cities airport

[East Dubzz]

Just above 4” here. I think we may be able to squeeze out 5 with what’s left, and that would be just fine with me!

[james1976]

Of course this is gonna end as the sun comes up. Im at 3.2" now. Highest snowfall of the season for mby.

[Hawkeye]

Only 3.8 inches in my yard.  What a joke of a storm.  Instead of being in the bulls-eye, as the models predicted, I ended up in the anti-bulls-eye.  We spent half the last day in dry pockets within the very patchy deformation zone.   

[badgerwx]

Almost 6 inches here in far SW Wisconsin...turned out pretty decent!

[East Dubzz]

Coming down very nicely again! This should help, hopefully, pick up an additional inch at least.

[westMJim]

Here is where Grand Rapids stands on this current event. The total snow fall over night here at my house is 1.7" of very wet snow the snow fell as a mix of snow and rain the snow has now became all rain here with a temperature of 32.9° there is now a total of 4" of snow on the ground here at my house. I also placed this in the January post as well.

[james1976]

6" report just south of me.  hmmmm idk bout that
Im at 3.4" now

[james1976]

Only 3.8 inches in my yard.  What a joke of a storm.  Instead of being in the bulls-eye, as the models predicted, I ended up in the anti-bulls-eye.  We spent half the last day in dry pockets within the very patchy deformation zone.   

 

Yeah it seems really patchy

[Meichel]

 

Roughly 3" here in 60156. Still coming down, not looking forward to cleaning it with the layer of frozen crap underneath from when it started yesterday.

[VMB443]

Pouring snow - looks good for this to last a while.

[Tom]

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Roughly 3" here in 60156. Still coming down, not looking forward to cleaning it with the layer of frozen crap underneath from when it started yesterday.

Nice picture to capture the "Snow Globe" effect!  As daylight emerges, it looks like a Winter Wonderland out here as well.  Currently -SN with temps dropping finally below Freezing.  Everything is coated in White Gold!

[East Dubzz]

Getting probably some of the best rates we’ve had all storm right now. I’ll take it, since I actually get to see it!

[Tom]

Pouring snow - looks good for this to last a while.

Nice defo zone wrapping up and S/SE WI is in the ideal location...enjoy!

[ToastedRavs]

All done here. 6.1" total. I'll take it and enjoy it until it all blows over the place with the arctic front! Congratulations to all who got some good powder!

[East Dubzz]

Have added nearly half an inch in the last half hour, and it looks like it may pick up even more here shortly. Definitely think we’ll hit the 5” mark.

[bud2380]

Looks like another 4” storm here. That’s 3 in a row that fell in the 4-5” range. That seems to be our max this year. Pouring snow right now but it will be short lived.

[Stormy]

Really snowing from the last heavy band. I'm at around 5.5". Not sure with the wind blowing it around, but with the ice crusted snow underneath I'm able to measure about anywhere it didn't drift.

[brianc400]

I have 3" at my place. We started out as all snow last night.

It's a winter wonderland, stuck to all the branches.

[Minny_Weather]

Super confused because KLNK only measured 1.7". I'm going to guess that's an error going to be corrected later because even if you measured in the lowest spot possible you would have to get twice that...

OAX tweeted 1.8" out. If they run with that then whoever measures at KLNK needs to be fired on the spot. They're always hot garbage with wind-driven events but the discrepancy has never been THIS bad.

[Grizzcoat]

Near 8" here W of DSM. A solid 1' on the ground.