This storm overpermed in places, it really set up in bands. I'm currently on the tail end of a heavy band and 1 more on the way before it ends.

It seems that the ridge merger occurs further offshore than the GFS/GEFS.

Brother just told me he has 5 inches and still snowing in Boonville, Mo. Never would I have thought he would more than double my snow with this storm with him being substantially more northwest than me. I just went out and measured 2 inches. Still snowing lightly here, I may get another half inch at best looks like.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow...Chitown is getting some White GOLD!!! https://www.earthcam.com/usa/illinois/chicago/field/?cam=fieldmuseum

While the D.C. area may escape the Brutal Arctic Attack on Inauguration Day, the rest of the country will be in the DEEP FREEZE depending on how much snow is OTG. Post 18th, the pattern is looking pretty D**n good as the COLD is Locked in and the opportunities for Snow across a lot of our members that have seen SNOW on SNOW, appear to be in a good position to get more for the 2nd half of JAN. As I have opined before, a SW FLOW pattern and/or SPLIT FLOW should begin to evolve. We have seen some back n forth of the modeling over the past few days, it appears to me, the EPS/GEPS and some GEFS run that are starting to hang a trough back in the SW/CAL region. The Cutoff Trough which will spin for a few days offshore of SO CAL (14th - 17th), is a quintessential part of the LRC that produced in both cycles. This time, however, we will be in Cycle # 3 and to a heightened degree, we will likely have much more Arctic Air to work with.