Winter Storm: 3-15 - 3-16 Potential

[bud2380]

Storm took just a little too long to develop for my area.  Just a bit to the east reports of 9"

 

[Tom]

10 hours ago, jaster220 said:

@Tom

Remember I posted that I was looking for the Oct 19 storm to cycle back at some point. I know this didn't originate as far south, but tonight's presentation sure reminded me of it.

This storm has certainly become a Beast of a storm for the GL's...looking at the live shots up in MQT, they just said that this storm could rival one back in 1977.  It looks like a scene out of the movie "Day After Tomorrow"!!!

 

[MKEstorm]

I measured 7.5 inches at 8:30 a.m. Snow still  comin’ down!

[Tom]

2 hours ago, OttumwaSnomow said:

3.2" snow.  .18" melted

.36" fell as rain

.54" total precip.

Extreme conditions all night. 

 

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Go figure, a plow truck needing help!  Thanks for sharing these videos.  Congrats on the snow!

[tStacsh]

12 hours ago, jaster220 said:

You're so funny! Sure I saw 2-5" in your WWA. I've got one again too for .1" ice lol. 

Doubt I'll get anywhere close to 2" being so far away from the lake with a NW and high winds.  Glad I didn't get the ice though.   What a terrible situation again.   

[bud2380]

Another clipper tomorrow.  Then 70s by Friday. LOL

[Tom]

I'm not convinced this turned into a "non event" for the LOT region...I just looked and Chicago's public schools are closed??  It appears a lot of late arrivals and closures are in play.

I spoke to my sister and she had no clue it was going to snow and from what she told me it looks like a couple inches fell and flash froze everything.  

 

[summerrules]

17 hours ago, summerrules said:

Yeah, LOT not buying into the higher amounts. This is right on the money IMO

Best in the game for a reason

[summerrules]

1 minute ago, Tom said:

I'm not convinced this turned into a "non event" for the LOT region...I just looked and Chicago's public schools are closed??  It appears a lot of late arrivals and closures are in play.

I spoke to my sister and she had no clue it was going to snow and from what she told me it looks like a couple inches fell and flash froze everything.  

 

ORD received 1.1” of snow lol

[Tom]

13 minutes ago, summerrules said:

ORD received 1.1” of snow lol

It's not always about the amount of snow...

[tStacsh]

I'm still in a  Winter Weather Advisory, but as I suspected earlier, they dropped the wording to 1" of snow.    No way we were every getting 2-5" out of this Lake effect/wrap around snow in my area.    Bring on Spring!  

I've seen some videos of the Ice Storm up north in Northern Lower.  Absolute devastation in some areas.    

[Hawkeye]

I took ~90 measurements in a grid across my backyard and came up with 3.0", which seems about right considering the drifts and scoured areas.  The gauge caught 0.40", which means the ratio is terrible, as it always is when the wind is strong.  The kuchera map predicted a ratio well above 10.

This stuff was a major pain to clean up.  It's dense, with a layer of either wet snow (stuck to the shovel) or ice on the bottom. 

[westMJim]

Here in southern lower Michigan we lucked out of this big Ides of March storm. Heck we had much worse conditions last week with a couple rounds of thunderstorms, heavy rain, hail late on Tuesday. High winds on Friday. At the current time it is partly cloudy and the temperature is 33 there was a trace of snow earlier but that mostly has melted. 

[Hoosier]

These snow showers are formidable while they last.  Mod-hvy snow for a few minutes and then almost nothing.  

[tStacsh]

1 hour ago, westMJim said:

Here in southern lower Michigan we lucked out of this big Ides of March storm. Heck we had much worse conditions last week with a couple rounds of thunderstorms, heavy rain, hail late on Tuesday. High winds on Friday. At the current time it is partly cloudy and the temperature is 33 there was a trace of snow earlier but that mostly has melted. 

I've seen more sun than precip today lol

[jaster220]

5 hours ago, Tom said:

This storm has certainly become a Beast of a storm for the GL's...looking at the live shots up in MQT, they just said that this storm could rival one back in 1977.  It looks like a scene out of the movie "Day After Tomorrow"!!!

 

There’s “That 70s Show” again! Any pics you can share? My buddy will get some by snowshoes when it finally wraps up later. He said they were around 30” late morning and snowbound until the county clears their road. They live just off of US31 near Carp Lake. 

[jaster220]

42 minutes ago, tStacsh said:

I've seen more sun than precip today lol

Me too! After scraping 1/4” of ice off the ride I headed down to visit my sister. Left January at home and found March sun and green grass there in Birch Run.

[Hoosier]

Actually got put under a winter wx advisory for this showery/squally stuff.

[Money]

14-16 inches probably here total 

 

11-12 over night 

[Money]

 

The final tally at the NWS Green Bay Office is 26.1". That has surpassed the Blizzard of 2018 by almost 2 inches marking this weekends blizzard at the 2nd snowiest storm on record in Green Bay.
 

 

5 out of the 6 top events came in March or April 

[Hoosier]

Looks like 1.3" at O'Hare (0.1" last night and 1.2" today).  General 1-2" in Chicago based on other reports.  Big time, I know.  

[Hoosier]

Not only did the paved surfaces clear up since morning, but I even noticed more subtle melting on the grassy surfaces compared to this morning despite temps only being in the 20s.  Not sure if it's some ground warmth, the sun angle, or maybe a little bit of both.

[jaster220]

Besides the 0.25” of ice came home to find the contractor cleaning up what looked like another 1” of backside LE Squall stuff. 
 

Happy spring! (and to think last

week I was swinging clubs in short sleeves)

[jaster220]

So glad we're on DST now. Allows me to watch snow squalls later into my evening 

[jaster220]

Courtesy of the strong winds and/or just more reporting idk, but sig increase in outages map since this morning. from shore to shore now

[jaster220]

Backside winds with this one are taking the cake for this winter - easily 50+ and vis down to 100 ft or zilch due to snow blowing off the roof.  Could literally not see 50 ft out our back window a moment ago. Insane. Haven't seen this stuff since the 90's in Traverse

[jaster220]

Not sure if these are final storm totals or just the past day? I think the latter.

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

3 hours ago, Hoosier said:

Not only did the paved surfaces clear up since morning, but I even noticed more subtle melting on the grassy surfaces compared to this morning despite temps only being in the 20s.  Not sure if it's some ground warmth, the sun angle, or maybe a little bit of both.

Ask Cliff Mass

[Tom]

Some pretty HEFTY totals down wind of Lake Superior...

This location below reported 34" in 24 hours...talk about some insane snowfall rates!

 

This location is reporting nearly 6.5 FEET of Snow that is OTG...Wow!  That ain't going anywhere anytime soon...long range doesn't look to spring-like up here.

[jaster220]

29 minutes ago, Tom said:

Some pretty HEFTY totals down wind of Lake Superior...

This location below reported 34" in 24 hours...talk about some insane snowfall rates!

 

This location is reporting nearly 6.5 FEET of Snow that is OTG...Wow!  That ain't going anywhere anytime soon...long range doesn't look to spring-like up here.

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That ain't going anywhere anytime soon...long range doesn't look to spring-like up here.

Right? Summer may fall on a Saturday this year for them Yoopers.

[jaster220]

Looks like places in NMI hit 30" and the list of records broken/set will be quite long when all is said and done. Just watching some "global disaster" youtube channels featuring Blizzard Elsa and primarily with a focus on Michigan. Crazy strong storm for not being some kind of bomb cyclone.

[Up_north_MI]

This is my buddy’s place east of Munising near the Bear Trap, local bar up there. Parts of the  UP was definitely hit hard to say the least.

[Minny_Weather]

Storm total here ended up being 8".

[jaster220]

Frontside/middle/backside for mby = 2.5" SN/(RN+) 0.25" Ice/2.0" SN