1/8-1/10 Panhandle Hook

[Iowawx]

I am at just about 10" and it is still snowing, and the wind has really picked up. 

[bud2380]

There is a report of 9.5" in Amana just a couple miles up the road from me.  I assume that's about where I'm at now, since I was at 9.1" last time I measured.  

[buzzman289]

9.5 NW  Cedar Rapids

[bud2380]

Made it to 10”. Not sure we’ll get 11” though. 

[Iowawx]

Report of 11" in CR.

[East Dubzz]

[Hawkeye]

I am falling behind other spotters in the area due to blowing and drifting.  Snow gets blown off my board, despite the fact my backyard is enclosed by a fence.  I do live at the south edge of an open field, so late in these storms the north wind howls across the field and hurts my ability to measure accurately.  Even though it has been ripping for the last few hours, I've only managed to accumulate one inch on my board.  My total is 9.7".  Other spotters are now reporting 11-12.5".

[East Dubzz]

There is a 9.5" report in Dubuque (not the official report) as of an hour ago. Though the airport reported 6.8" 3.5 hours ago, so that report probably isn't crazy far off. And eyeballing it tells me it's probably not crazy far off from what I have either. 

[bud2380]

A foot in North Liberty where I lived for 15 years 

[beaugie]

Only around 2.3" in Whitewater, WI. Snow has been so wet it's just compressing mostly. Getting some bigger flakes now. Most of the trees have heavy wet snow that's turned into mostly ice. With the wind picking up in a few hours it might get interesting.

[Tom]

8 hours ago, Clinton said:

Daylight showing the beautiful sticky snow.  Deformation and wind on the way shortly. 

 

That is just gorgeous...lovely winter wonderland!

[Tom]

Now its ripping at ORD...

 

[shakjen]

23 minutes ago, Tom said:

Now its ripping at ORD...

 

Ground stop right now

[Hoosier]

I just hit 28.93" here, or a hair under 980 mb.  This is now the lowest pressure that I've ever personally observed.

[East Dubzz]

NWS might have been slightly aggressive with their forecast, but it seems like maybe I was thinking a bit too conservatively as well. 

[Hawkeye]

I'm up to 10.5".  There is a lot of snow.  I've never seen the house totally plastered with snow like this.

[hawkstwelve]

I am located right at the line above the 3 in the 13.2 reading. Looks like I ended up in the high end of even local storm reports.

 

[Iowawx]

A report of 13" in CR now. Wow! 

Edit: IC just reported 15"! 

[Minny_Weather]

11 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

I am located right at the line above the 3 in the 13.2 reading. Looks like I ended up in the high end of even local storm reports.

 

Hey, I see me on that map!

A bit surprised to see 6-8" reports just a few miles to my SE. I know I didn't get 4" like that map would seem to indicate - I cleared maybe 2-3" off my car. 

[Minny_Weather]

The North Shore got ultimately hosed much like they have all winter- not even lake enhancement could save them. The highest totals in the entire Duluth CWA was actually in and near Brainerd. Duluth got 0.3", bringing their seasonal total to 12.3", while their season to date normal is 40.7" (which they were way above last year). 

Wichita, KS has 2" more snow than Duluth this season, despite their season-to-date normal being 10% of Duluth's. 

[Hoosier]

Still hasn't changed to snow here yet.  Glad I didn't buy into the quicker changeover solutions.  Would be nice if tonight could overperform though and help to solidify the fading snowcover.

[bud2380]

15” in North Liberty?? Man that’s 15 miles from me. I finished with 10.5”. It’s still snowing a little but it won’t really accumulate much more. 
 

[Hawkeye]

6 minutes ago, bud2380 said:

15” in North Liberty?? Man that’s 15 miles from me. I finished with 10.5”. It’s still snowing a little but it won’t really accumulate much more. 
 

Once the snow starts drifting, spotter reports start diverging.  Some people measure in driftier areas while some measure in blowier areas (me).  Once again, I will come up short of 12".

[Hoosier]

3 minutes ago, Hawkeye said:

Once the snow starts drifting, spotter reports start diverging.  Some people measure in driftier areas while some measure in blowier areas (me).  Once again, I will come up short of 12".

I have some issues getting good measurements in windy storms as well.  In these situations, I take my amount and blend it with nearby obs to come up with my total.  

[Tom]

1 hour ago, shakjen said:

Ground stop right now

My father landed safely after doing a couple loops on his descent towards ORD...he must have been the very last flights out of PHX to ORD that weren't delayed.  Flights are still delay till 6:30pm CST.  Question, isn't that right about where you live where he did those loops?  

[East Dubzz]

Man it’s still coming down solid. The way it’s plastered on the trees is something I haven’t really seen before.

[Hoosier]

Snowing here now

[westMJim]

As of 5:30 PM the official snowfall at Grand Rapids was 2.5" Here in MBY my 7PM measurement was 2.0" of wet heavy sloppy snow. It is still snowing here at this time with a temperature of 33.

[Tom]

1 minute ago, Hoosier said:

Snowing here now

Hopefully you can score a couple inches onto your base before the next Big Dog...

[East Dubzz]

Wow 12” reported by DBQ!

[Stacsh]

33 minutes ago, westMJim said:

As of 5:30 PM the official snowfall at Grand Rapids was 2.5" Here in MBY my 7PM measurement was 2.0" of wet heavy sloppy snow. It is still snowing here at this time with a temperature of 33.

Roads are now awful 

[Hawkeye]

Boy, this is quite the storm.  It has been snowing for over 24 hours.  Current radar shows one final band of snow that is strengthening as it passes through Cedar Rapids.

[East Dubzz]

3 minutes ago, Hawkeye said:

Boy, this is quite the storm.  It has been snowing for over 24 hours.  Current radar shows one final band of snow that is strengthening as it is about to pass through Cedar Rapids.

If there were stronger winds after this one, we might be talking about an all timer. And I mean record book wise, this probably is still an all timer as far as snow amounts go.

A beautiful, long lasting, daytime storm to enjoy, though. Don’t get this kind of combination often.

[shakjen]

58 minutes ago, Tom said:

My father landed safely after doing a couple loops on his descent towards ORD...he must have been the very last flights out of PHX to ORD that weren't delayed.  Flights are still delay till 6:30pm CST.  Question, isn't that right about where you live where he did those loops?  

Close. I can see the intersection of 80 & 39 on your image. That’s where I am. The loops are just east, probably over the Ottawa/Morris/Minooka area. But we have planes circling all the time during thunderstorms or bad weather. I am about 75 miles from ORD donuts right about where planes start their descent. We can hear them throttle down all the time. 

[jcwxguy]

8" imby storm total. About 2-3" difference across town 

[jaster220]

2 hours ago, Stacsh said:

Roads are now awful 

Can confirm after driving about 80 miles this evening. Fairly disappointing for most of Michigan, but still a respectable first storm of any season. Looks like at least 8" has fallen here, but due to compaction it is sitting more like a solid 6 or 7" storm. Very much the flavor of a November storm for NMI. @East Dubzz's photo of the trees plastered pretty much how it looks here as well.

3 hours ago, westMJim said:

As of 5:30 PM the official snowfall at Grand Rapids was 2.5" Here in MBY my 7PM measurement was 2.0" of wet heavy sloppy snow. It is still snowing here at this time with a temperature of 33.

[OttumwaSnomow]

Just unreal. STORM TOTAL OF 19.0"!!!!!

AND MAY APPROACH  2" OF MELTED PRECIP!

To busy to enjoy it.

 

 

[Clinton]

28 minutes ago, OttumwaSnomow said:

Just unreal. STORM TOTAL OF 19.0"!!!!!

AND MAY APPROACH  2" OF MELTED PRECIP!

To busy to enjoy it.

 

 

Congrats!  That's insane, make those $

[Hawkeye]

My final measurement is 11.0".  There are several reports of 12-15" from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City, but I've still never measured 12".  I have a nice 2-stage blower, but it still took a long time to clean.  This stuff is pretty dense.  It's the most wet snow I've ever received from a storm.

When the snow stopped this evening and I went out to clean, the weather improved dramatically.  It was near blizzard through afternoon, but when I was out this evening it was pretty pleasant.  The wind was way down and it wasn't cold at all.

[Grizzcoat]

There really may be some truth to the OMA DOME-