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3/13 - 3/16 Powerful March Storm


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Another "hmm" model showing nearly twice as much snow in the Quad Cities as in Cedar Rapids, pushing the snow northeast and east in general.

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season snowfall: 34.8"

'22-23: 30.2"      '21-22: 27.1"      '20-21: 52.5"      '19-20: 36.2"      '18-19: 50.2"      '17-18: 39.5"

Average snowfall: ~30"

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00z UK... ugly for Cedar Rapids/Iowa City.  Another model pushing more snow into northern Illinois.

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season snowfall: 34.8"

'22-23: 30.2"      '21-22: 27.1"      '20-21: 52.5"      '19-20: 36.2"      '18-19: 50.2"      '17-18: 39.5"

Average snowfall: ~30"

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Rain changed to snow at KDSM at about 1:30am. Looked to be inline for about 3" but the echoes just flew N and than changed back to rain. Never could stay under the heavier bands for more than 15 minutes. Ended up with 1.3". Seasonal total at 55.8".

 

*** A very odd thing occurred just before the rain changed to heavy wet snow-- the wind had been 090 (Easterly) at 15 G to 25kts- and than went SOUTH 18005KT - and rather light and BOOM - switched over to snow. Usually it's a NE or WNW wind that changes the rain to snow, but not this time. But 15-30mins later, back to 090 and eventually back to rain several hours later--- but odd nonetheless. ***

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42 minutes ago, bud2380 said:

Precip already beginning to move out over here. If it switches over to snow it won’t last long. I don’t think the 11” last nights HRRR showed is gonna pan out 

Yeah the models that showed nothing for me are the ones that seem to be correct. Still bare ground here though it appears like a bit of sleet just outside my window. I thought I heard sleet on the windows last evening already, but maybe it was rain hitting so hard because of strong winds.

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We can start lowering snow totals around here.  The HRRR was much too aggressive with the cold.  It had mix by 5am and all snow by 6am.  It's after 7am now and it's still a mix of rain and sleet.  Other models had it snow by 7am as well.  Maybe last night's UK, which had Cedar Rapids and Iowa City down to only 1", was right.  I see DVN upgraded Cedar Rapids to a winter storm warning, too, so that's not looking good.

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season snowfall: 34.8"

'22-23: 30.2"      '21-22: 27.1"      '20-21: 52.5"      '19-20: 36.2"      '18-19: 50.2"      '17-18: 39.5"

Average snowfall: ~30"

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From the thread title- "POWERFUL MARCH STORM"

yeah- I don't think this "powerful" -- 87mph wind gust at Le Mars,IA outta the EAST?   Bogus. FAA/NWS fix your junk AWOS/ASOS crap. Rant over.

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If I was living in Boulder, CO I'd consider this storm a bust after days of model runs showing 2-3' or more and at the end of the day, the local area picked up 10-20".  The south side picked up much more than the north side.  Some places east of the foothills picked up close to 2 feet.  After a slow start, Denver really scored tremendously later on Saturday as the temps cooled off and the snow became more fluffier as DIA picked up a grand total of 27.1" of snow setting the #2 spot for largest March snowstorm.

 

 

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This is turning into a bust.  It's now almost 8am and it's still raining.

Update:  I'm finally seeing a few flakes mix in.

season snowfall: 34.8"

'22-23: 30.2"      '21-22: 27.1"      '20-21: 52.5"      '19-20: 36.2"      '18-19: 50.2"      '17-18: 39.5"

Average snowfall: ~30"

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The snow was pounding pretty good here just before it ended earlier this a.m. So have a decent wet coating making it look like winter. Measured up to 1” of snow with 0.8” for an average in most spots. Storm total liquid in my 4” diameter gauges is 1.16” and 1.11”. My other gauges had a bit less, but I go by my 4” gauges.

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9 hours ago, gabel23 said:

I had 5.5” of rain this morning and picked up another .1” of red mud rain today for a storm total of 5.6”. This storm was able to suck up dust from New Mexico and Texas and rained down on us! 

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Same here 

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