12/10 to 12/11 Upper Midwest Snow Storm

[FarmerRick]

US National Weather Service Omaha/Valley Nebraska

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The Winter Weather Advisory was expanded southward this afternoon. Drizzle should turn to snow this evening, posing possible travel hazards for more southern areas like Omaha and Interstate 80. Snow should fall in Lincoln as well, but forecast totals are lower than in Omaha.

 

[james1976]

Down to 34 here at home. Drizzle right now. Roads are wet but the trees have a coating of ice.

[james1976]

TWC just reported thundersnow along I35 west of Mason City, IA.

[bud2380]

SLP in northeast KS right now

 

[gabel23]

Moisture is streaming northward through my area. Winds gusting to 30 out of the north northeast. Grid has me getting 1-3" of snow and it will all be melted by sunday afternoon! 

[bud2380]

20z HRRR just grazes I80

 

[jaster220]

CHEERS! to more bomb storms throughout the winter..

DTX update..

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Good agreement with the mass fields/track of the max 500 MB 6h
height fall center (170 M) tracking through northern Lower Michigan,
with just some subtle and important issues with the timing/phasing
of the northern Stream trough tracking through northern Ontario and
corresponding rapid deepening of the low during Saturday. Bulk of
high resolution solutions (NAM/ARW) showing intense strengthening,
~10 MB in 6-8 hours (10-18z Saturday), with the low likely at or
below 980 MB by 18z Saturday (even the UKMET has come around).
 

 

[james1976]

I'm down to 32 now. Still 1-4" in the forecast. Still have some drizzle and sleet going on.

[gosaints]

Puking snow. Short range models have beefed up.  Should beat 6 inches.

[snowstorm83]

Cold, windy, and dry so far. At least it’s already down to 31, anything that falls shouldn’t have too much trouble accumulating 

[snowstorm83]

Looking at radar, MSP is about to get slammed 

[snowstorm83]

First flakes of the season have finally arrived

[gosaints]

There is gonna be some crazy totals in the msp southern metro.

[bud2380]

Lightning to my west. 

[OmahaSnowFan]

Grass is already white here!

[james1976]

Girlfriend in Vadnais Heights MN (just north of St Paul) measured 4" of snow on the patio table just now. 

Nothing but drizzle down here and 32°

[james1976]

3 hours ago, gosaints said:

Puking snow. Short range models have beefed up.  Should beat 6 inches.

Nice to see ya back in the forum. I saw TWC was in Rochester earlier.

[St Paul Storm]

(Blowing the dust off my account)…what’s up everyone? It’s been one hell of a year and I’m glad it’s almost over. Had a biking accident in Alaska while on vacation in July. Broke 6 ribs and snapped my right collarbone in half. Just haven’t been myself since then…
 

Kinda tough to get super excited about snow that will likely all melt by midweek, but it’s definitely raking out there. Sitting on the northern fringe of that monster band. 4.5” down already. I think we’ll hit at least 7” easily. More than that depends on any convective banding that might pop back up. It’s a beautiful scene out there though! 
 

Hope everyone is doing well! 

[Hawkeye]

There are some 8-12" spotter reports under the stalled heavy band on the south side of the metro.

[gosaints]

2 minutes ago, St Paul Storm said:

(Blowing the dust off my account)…what’s up everyone? It’s been one hell of a year and I’m glad it’s almost over. Had a biking accident in Alaska while on vacation in July. Broke 6 ribs and snapped my right collarbone in half. Just haven’t been myself since then…
 

Kinda tough to get super excited about snow that will likely all melt my midweek, but it’s definitely raking out there. Sitting on the northern fringe of that monster band. 4.5” down already. I think we’ll hit at least 7” easily. More than that depends on any convective banding that might pop back up. It’s a beautiful scene out there though! 
 

Hope everyone is doing well! 

Sucks to hear.  Hope you are on the mend.  Nice storm.  Sitting at about 4 here might squeak another 4 out of it.  I think I saw a 14 inch spot in the south metro.  Some one will break 18 up there.

[St Paul Storm]

1 minute ago, gosaints said:

Sucks to hear.  Hope you are on the mend.  Nice storm.  Sitting at about 4 here might squeak another 4 out of it.  I think I saw a 14 inch spot in the south metro.  Some one will break 18 up there.

Thanks.  I’m on the mend, but it’s been rough. One thing is for sure…most models absolutely nailed where that band was going to set up. We need to remember this one for all the times the models don’t do well. 

[james1976]

15 minutes ago, St Paul Storm said:

(Blowing the dust off my account)…what’s up everyone? It’s been one hell of a year and I’m glad it’s almost over. Had a biking accident in Alaska while on vacation in July. Broke 6 ribs and snapped my right collarbone in half. Just haven’t been myself since then…
 

Kinda tough to get super excited about snow that will likely all melt my midweek, but it’s definitely raking out there. Sitting on the northern fringe of that monster band. 4.5” down already. I think we’ll hit at least 7” easily. More than that depends on any convective banding that might pop back up. It’s a beautiful scene out there though! 
 

Hope everyone is doing well! 

Great to see you in here! And very sorry about your biking situation. That's a crazy story. Glad you are getting back to yourself!

[snowstorm83]

Already seeing some 12-13” reports in south twin cities suburbs. Being generous, maybe 0.5” OTG here. Very light, wet snow and small flakes.

[Hawkeye]

I picked up 0.45" of rain.

The HRRR continues to show us getting some light snow from 3-5am.

[St Paul Storm]

Brighter returns now shifting back to the northwest. Not as intense as the one earlier that smashed the south metro but it’s snowing hard out there. I’ll hit at least 8” here based on current radar.

 

MPX with a winter storm warning update for the ages:

”...INCREDIBLE SNOWFALL AMOUNTS CONTINUE TO PILE UP THIS EVENING... 

Additional snow accumulations of 3 to 5
  inches. Storm total accumulations of 18 to 21 inches are
  possible in parts of the southern and eastern Twin Cities
  Metro. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph.” 

 

 

 

 

[jaster220]

14 minutes ago, St Paul Storm said:

Brighter returns now shifting back to the northwest. Not as intense as the one earlier that smashed the south metro but it’s snowing hard out there. I’ll hit at least 8” here based on current radar.

 

MPX with a winter storm warning update for the ages:

”...INCREDIBLE SNOWFALL AMOUNTS CONTINUE TO PILE UP THIS EVENING... 

Additional snow accumulations of 3 to 5
  inches. Storm total accumulations of 18 to 21 inches are
  possible in parts of the southern and eastern Twin Cities
  Metro. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph.” 

 

 

 

 

Great "welcome back" storm SPS! Good to hear from you in here. Good Luck up there.

[OmahaSnowFan]

Bout to get dumped on!!

[Hawkeye]

There are already spotter reports of 15-20" south of the MSP metro.  Wow!

[Madtown]

8" on the ground 20min south of me already

[OmahaSnowFan]

Not surprisingly the real heavy stuff fell apart before reaching me

Still coming down decent though. Measured 1.75” just a bit ago.

[james1976]

Report of 17" in Eagan MN. Wow!

[Hawkeye]

It appears Creighton University's live webcam is gone from their site.    I have often checked that video when snow is moving through Omaha.

[stratosjeff]

We definitely doing pretty good up here in balsam lake. I heard the snow hitting the underside of my tundra. I expect to see alot more snow here than when I lived in rockford, il last year. 

Total went from 8 to 12 to 18 to 21

[Minny_Weather]

I got a rock.

[Bellona]

Just started snowing here in the last 10 minutes in Waterloo.

[Tom]

6 hours ago, St Paul Storm said:

(Blowing the dust off my account)…what’s up everyone? It’s been one hell of a year and I’m glad it’s almost over. Had a biking accident in Alaska while on vacation in July. Broke 6 ribs and snapped my right collarbone in half. Just haven’t been myself since then…
 

Kinda tough to get super excited about snow that will likely all melt by midweek, but it’s definitely raking out there. Sitting on the northern fringe of that monster band. 4.5” down already. I think we’ll hit at least 7” easily. More than that depends on any convective banding that might pop back up. It’s a beautiful scene out there though! 
 

Hope everyone is doing well! 

There you are!  Glad to see you back in the saddle, but more importantly, it's good to hear that your doing better after a hellova accident.  Health is #1 in my book and there is nothing more important other than family.  I heard it takes a very long time to heal a collarbone....but to have your ribs also broken must have been awful . In any event, congrats on the 1st big snow of the season.  I always enjoy looking at your winter photos.

[Tom]

This storm system is showing some crazy dynamics...currently right over RFD at 990mb and dropping...

 

Those are some insane snowfall totals across the south side metro of MSP.  Wild stuff!  What a way to kick off the winter season with a likely record smashing snowfall.

[Tom]

Anyone have a link to the site that reports snowfall totals from individual COOP reports?  My other computer crashed and I lost all my wx links.  Trying to locate all these lost bookmarks.  Thanks in advance.

[Tom]

This storm reminds me of the Nov 17th, 2013 severe wx outbreak that hit the Lower Lakes/MW/OHV region...I'm really worried about next years Spring/Severe Wx season. If we see a pattern like this where clashing air masses set up then things will get ugly.  The system back in 2013 had a massive TOR outbreak and this current storm is certainly showing up to that caliber.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Grizzcoat]

You mean this one?

https://www.weather.gov/source/crh/snowmap.html?sid=mpx