1/8-1/10 Panhandle Hook

[Tom]

6 hours ago, Hawkeye said:

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.

This is the type of snowstorm that laid down a nice glacier across the Plains & MW...Its way better to have a wetter variety of snow that won't nuke or melt IF or When a warm arises.  Congrats on the Big Snow!  Looks like many of our members in E IA had 10-15" from what I'm seeing.

@bud2380 his old stomping grounds in North Liberty received 15"!

 

 

[westMJim]

The official snowfall at GRR for the event yesterday is 4.1" but that came with 0.94" of melted snow. And that 0.94" is a record for the date. Here in MBY I have 3" of very wet snow on the ground and to my  surprise  the county plowed the road already.

[Meichel]

Winter Wonder Bland in N IL

[gimmesnow]

Am I missing something? Feels like this thing really underperformed. Not even enough snow to open the snowmobile trails here when we were expecting 8+.

[East Dubzz]

Looks like the official amount for Dubuque ended at 12.6". Wowza!

I know the DNV went a bit against what the models were showing at the time, so I wonder how that forecast ended up being area wide. Seems like for the CR/IA/DBQ area, they ended up being right on the higher amounts. Not sure for the rest of the area, though.

[tStacsh]

Schools closed again today.  Awful awful sloppy heavy wet snow.   Probably had about 5" total, but hard to measure.  Compacted so much.  

[dubuque473]

Ended up being the fifth-snowiest one-day total in Dubuque.

[Tom]

ORD officially had 3.2" (2-day total) from this system which is about what LOT suggested...

[Hoosier]

14 minutes ago, Tom said:

ORD officially had 3.2" (2-day total) from this system which is about what LOT suggested...

Officially have cracked 10" for the season at ORD.  Rally time lol

[MKEstorm]

This storm was a bust for my area! Only measured an inch and a half. Rain/snow mix in the morning didn’t help. The precip. changed to all snow by early afternoon and only fell moderately at times. I think the snow from the small wave coming through tonight will give me more snow than yesterday’s “storm.”

[Clinton]

Final snowfall tallies from EAX

[jaster220]

Almost scored top honors for GRR's region. Not sure where exactly that measurement comes from here in Harrison, but just eye-balling plow banks along the x-way looks more like 12" from here and the next 8 miles north. So, once again the globals beat the NAM's silly scenario(s) and the last-minute bump on the Euro and GFS was a legit trend. Super pleased with everything except my NWS office's headline and statement that "nobody in their CWA was expected to reach the 7" in 24 hrs Warning threshold". Well, we had at least 10" in that time. Yes, I'd rather have the bigger snows ofc, but "come on man" they are the paid experts and miss the mark regularly regarding synoptic systems.

[jaster220]

On 1/9/2024 at 7:14 PM, Hoosier said:

Snowing here now

How'd you end up?

[jaster220]

5 hours ago, MKEstorm said:

This storm was a bust for my area! Only measured an inch and a half. Rain/snow mix in the morning didn’t help. The precip. changed to all snow by early afternoon and only fell moderately at times. I think the snow from the small wave coming through tonight will give me more snow than yesterday’s “storm.”

And here I was worried the Wisco crew were stealing my snowstorm. Looks like all the offices jumped on those NAM runs that had everything running NW, only to have the NAM sheepishly follow the globals last-minute. 

[MKEstorm]

1 hour ago, jaster220 said:

And here I was worried the Wisco crew were stealing my snowstorm. Looks like all the offices jumped on those NAM runs that had everything running NW, only to have the NAM sheepishly follow the globals last-minute. 

The Euro actually nailed the potential rain and rain snow probability for my area! I even mentioned in a post before the storm that I was concerned about this. I hope this doesn’t happen for Friday’s storm. MKX is already mentioning a possible mix near the lake during the early part of the storm. However, no model (including the Euro) is showing this! The warm Autumn and record warm December has created a very warm Lake Michigan for this time of year and it’s keeping things warmer now near the Lake.

[Tom]

LOT's summary for the storm...