Chris's Corner - Bitter Cold and Some Snow

Good call on the 2nd surge of snowfall, Chris. Roads are snow/icey down here where nobody lives. Happy Snow Day!!

I’m guessing close to an inch here …. The grass is pretty much covered….. hard to tell though with all the blowing…… it’s pretty cool though, the lake is frozen and I have a pretty good drift in front of my boat dock …. That’s something you don’t see every day

Lambert had .02" qpf. There was one WxUnderground station in St. Charles County that had .05". 0.05" was also the highest of any of the short term models. It was fluffy, but I don't think 40:1 LSR fluffy.

We are currently under one of the small streamers on radar …. It’s very impressive how hard it’s snowing

Monday looks…messy. Not skilled enough to read between the lines on that one on if ice is a real threat or not. Clearly limited due to rising temps that will be at or above freezing by Monday afternoon. Morning could be iffy though. Our classic 32 degree “ice storm”?

Eyeballing about 0.5" of fresh powder here. Grass is mostly covered, roads are clear though. 9F with a wind chill currently of -5, winds from the NW haven't really picked up yet.
There's a mist of snow in the air which at first i wasn't sure if it was wind-blown snow off the trees but...its definitely falling from the sky, nothing on radar so must be really low.
Surprised i didn't get notice of an e-Learning day for the kids, figured the district would err on the side of caution (mostly due to temperatures).

2-3” up in Springfield, IL. Nice little over performer.

Like everybody else, im estimating a half inch to an inch, and no more in dardenne prairie/southern ofallon. It was wind blown so difficult. Probably split the diff and go with .75, lol. You know we are desperate for snow when a small spread such as half inch difference becomes a topic of conversation on here.

Estimating 1½ inches here given the wind. Grass is mostly covered. Streets are mostly just wet, especially since the salt truck came through without the blade down.

NAM has things dicey by 6-9AM Monday whereas the GFS and GGEM keep the bulk of precip away until later Monday, and mostly rain.

I'm guessing half inch to 3/4 of an inch also. I'm surprised at how much of the ground is covered. I fell asleep before the dark green "Death Band" moved over sometime between 2:00 and 3:00. It must have snowed pretty hard. Temp 17° 7 miles west of DeSoto.

UKmet looks icy as well for Monday rush hour.

After the warmup next week, all teleconnections are screaming normal weather for the next 2 weeks or so.

It does look like all ensembles attempt to re-establish the ridge over AK, but all fail to do so. That’s a change from earlier this week where that was actually achieved.

That said, it can obviously change. AO is trending neutral, as well as NAO and PNA. MJO is moving into neutral territory as well but exiting neutral in Phase 8, which is a cold phase for us. Fingers crossed!

Yup. Except sometimes 2 weeks turns into 2 years.