Jan. 22nd-23rd Winter Storm

[Stacsh]

Getting a nice burst of snow. Going to be riding the line all night. 2 or 7 inches is possible

[dubuque473]

Schnack going with some isolated 7-8” in DBQ county and several others overnight.

[CentralNebWeather]

Now down to 1/4 mile visibility and heavy snow. This is what it must have looked like in Northwest Kansas and Southwest Nebraska all day as this band remained nearly stationary. Could end up with a surprise 2-3” if this continues. I’ll take it. Sitting at 1.2” officially.

[Stormhunter87]

The bands are moving out sadly, but beat out the model changes. Really fluffy snow but ended up with 3-4 inches possibly 5 by eye balling it. Hard to measure because of the wind

[shakjen]

Snowing here now

[Minny_Weather]

Measured 3.5-4" outside. Thought we got more but hey better than what the models were saying earlier this morning. Suck it NAM. Euro wins again. The heaviest part is moving out but I think we can still squeeze an inch out of this thing. Measuring was easier than I thought it'd be because the old snowcover was so rock solid that my ruler couldn't penetrate it no matter how hard I pressed down. Now that we have a fairly good base of around 8", bring on the cold!

[East Dubzz]

Got about 0.5” here already. Honestly, the snowfall right now reminds me of the last storm. Small flakes, but a lot of them. Off to a better start than I was expecting, so it’d be nice to hit that 6” mark again.

[bud2380]

Looks like I’ll be in a significant lull here. Gonna take a couple hours for snow to reach back here unless it redevelops quickly. That likely will put my area on the low end of the snow forecast. Areas just northwest and southeast getting hit pretty good.

[Madtown]

mkx holding steady...bring it!

[Minny_Weather]

Looks like I’ll be in a significant lull here. Gonna take a couple hours for snow to reach back here unless it redevelops quickly. That likely will put my area on the low end of the snow forecast. Areas just northwest and southeast getting hit pretty good.

Yeah I see CR/IC is in a massive shaft right now. How much do you have?

[snowstorm83]

Looks like one more good band is going to move through before it's basically over. Nothing earth shattering, but a nice storm since there was a solid chance this morning we'd get nothing and it never looked good for us except for last night. 

[Hawkeye]

I picked up a fluffy 0.6" of snow from the first band a couple hours ago.  We are now waiting for the south-central Iowa snow to move up here.

 

Terry Swails lowered the snow forecast to 3-6", which makes sense given the system's lack of vigor.

[Minny_Weather]

Looks like one more good band is going to move through before it's basically over. Nothing earth shattering, but a nice storm since there was a solid chance this morning we'd get nothing and it never looked good for us except for last night. 

This was especially good because the snowpack in the Northern parts of the city were on life support. One mild sunny day and there'd be exposed grass and bare spots. I probably woulda been fine down here, but nice to have a security blanket. In addition, the wind-driven nature of this helped to cover up tree-shadowed spots from the last storm.

[Andie]

Cold front blew in HARD. Just like the good old days!

Rain missed DFW and went SE.

 

Currently 47* tonight's low will hit 32*

 

Winds are 16mph gusting to 30mph. They'll die down before dawn.

 

There's some snow/ice on the radar right now in southern Oklahoma but I don't it will amount to anything.

But there's hope Oklahoma!!

 

Finally, a Blue Norther.

[East Dubzz]

Looks like Dubuque has reported an inch thus far. I’d say I’m right on track with that.

[stratosjeff]

We have a solid two inches in Rockford. Hopefully it fills in quick to keep our total going

[jcwxguy]

4" 70th and Vine area Lincoln

[CentralNebWeather]

Our WWA was set to expire at 6 pm but NWS Hastings has just extended it as this heavy snow bands lingers. More pleasant surprises with this storm that I gave up on 6 hours ago.

[hlcater]

0.3" so far in IC.

[FV-Mike]

Coming down nicely. Just wish it was going to stay for a bit

[james1976]

0.3"

[snowstorm83]

The band in Central NE does seem to be holding strong. It'll probably fizzle before it gets here, but something to watch I guess.

[Hawkeye]

So the Des Moines area has a couple inches, Dubuque and QC have an inch, and Rockford has 2.  Here we are in Cedar Rapids waiting.

 

One positive... the last couple HRRR runs have re-added a strip of up to 0.50" precip through the Cedar Rapids area tonight.

[Bryan1117]

About 3 1/2 inches of snow in Southwest Omaha from this system... I will take it after it looked very bleak this morning.

[East Dubzz]

Snow has picked up here a little. Would be nice to find a way to avoid an extended lull.

[stratosjeff]

It filled in just enough to keep it going, looks like we are going to be in an extended good band of snow. 20 miles west and nothing on radar showing up.

[Yerf]

Coming down nicely. Just wish it was going to stay for a bit

on top of the ice we got it’s dangerous out there

[DSM WeatherNut]

Radar trends look pretty solid for Des Moines for a while.  Still building to the west befor the CF in Nebraska pushes it out.

[GDR]

Smash town outside right now what a Surprise storm

[East Dubzz]

Flake size has increased quite a bit.

[East Dubzz]

I expected to be in a lull right now, so this is a nice surprise!

[Tom]

Very nice snowfall coming down...picked up 0.2" in the last 15 min or so...hears to hoping the changeover doesn't happen till very late or lack thereof.  Latest HRRR is suggest the rain/snow line makes it up to ORD overnight for a time but still lays down 2-3" which I would gladly take. 

 

Interestingly, driving around town, you can clearly notice a glaze of ice on top of the snow pack which made it look like an ice rink.  I've only seen that a couple times in my life and remember a time when that happened back when I was a kid.  It brought back some memories which was kinda neat.  Good thing is, temps aren't supposed to climb that high which will allow the snow pack to hold up pretty well.  This stuff will be concrete once the cold does arrive.

[BMT]

Looks like it’s about ready to rip here in CR. Good returns heading this way

[Stacsh]

Looks like from my house to the north should stay mostly snow now. Big change from a few hours ago.

[Minny_Weather]

Small flakes, but the rate has picked back up quite a bit here. There's been about an additional half inch since my last post. If this keeps up we'll reach 5" easily and start a push for 6".

[jaster220]

Looks like from my house to the north should stay mostly snow now. Big change from a few hours ago.

 

Hope you get nailed. What radar had shown as SNOW earlier was just ZR and a few IP, so nothing happening down here unless you like ice skating, or falling on your a$$ in parking lots

[snowstorm83]

Yep, some random back building happened and its snowing pretty good again.

[FV-Mike]

currently in a thin band that is ripping hard. over an inch on the ground. flake size is huge

[Stormhunter87]

I was just going to say interesting development to our south east in Lincoln. Might make it up here

[Madtown]

the life!