Winter Weather thread, 2015-2016

[Outlander]

Not a snowstorm around the southeast, maybe 2 inches. It is the last of the season so I am happy. Eau Claire could be a different story though.

[fondybrewfan]

FDL is squarely in that 6-12 inch range. Hoping for closer to 6 but at least the crap will melt pretty quickly.

[Patrick425]

Scheduled to take off Thursday for a family trip to San Diego. So was glad when they reduced the snow totals forecast for the southeast part of the state. Looks like an inch or less expected at Mitchell.

[jerichoholicninja]

The forecast says a foot here but temps in the mid to lower 30's. I don't know how you can get a foot of snow when it's that warm.

[Patrick425]

The forecast says a foot here but temps in the mid to lower 30's. I don't know how you can get a foot of snow when it's that warm.

 

Where is "here" jericho? This is the current forecast map:

 

http://www.weather.gov/images/mkx/snowaccum/SnowMap_WI.png

[jerichoholicninja]

That map puts me right near the 6-8 and 12-18 line. Still, I can't see the predicted temps supporting that much precipitation as snow.

[MrTPlush]

The snow is suppose to come in the late hours through Wednesday night. The daily temps aren't going to matter when the nightly temp is going to be well under freezing.

[1992casey]

owbc can explain this a whole lot better. But if the air temperature at about 1,000 feet above the ground is below freezing, the snowflakes won't have time to melt before they hit the ground. Conversely, if it's below freezing on the ground and above freezing at 1,000 feet, we'll have freezing rain.

[fondybrewfan]

I am right on the cutoff of 6-8 and 8-12 so I am just gong to go with 8. Heavy wet stuff too which will be just a joy to clear off the driveway. My snow blower doesn't have the most horsepower in the world. It will take some time to clear 8 inches of wet snow.

[fondybrewfan]

Real smart FDL School District. Slushy & icy roads plus continuing snow, ice, and rain all day. Lets have a bunch of 16-18 year olds drive in this. Brilliant.

[RobDeer 45]

So, who got the most snow up in WI? How much were the big totals?

[MrTPlush]

There was a strong band at the top of the storm that ended up giving the more impressive totals. Eau Claire ended up with 10.5 and locally higher amounts to the south and to the E/NE. I think the highest amounts were to the NE of Wausau.

 

The Green Bay area was supposed to end up with a lot, but not sure that actually came to fruition.

[AZBrewCrew]

Got close to 11 inches where im at in Eau Claire,it started snowing around 1400 yesterday afternoon but nothing really started sticking to the roads until around 1900 or so,so that helped with the roads. They have already plowed this morning and the roads are clear again. Having temps in the 40s and 50s in the recent past certainly helped

[Baldkin]

Turned absolutely brutal today in Milwaukee/Waukesha for rush hour. Freezing rain/sleet/snow mix after it rained overnight, clearing all that wonderful salt off the roads.

 

Thankfully, people actually still remembered how to drive in winter weather.

[jerichoholicninja]

Only had 4-5 inches on the ground this morning. Shoveling at 7:30 am was like trying to shovel partially cured concrete. Went to do more around noon and it was more like floury cookie dough. Finished shoveling around 2 and that was like a slushy. It pretty much rain/sleeted all day today so there was some nice melting going on then about 5 it turned into straight up blizzard snow. I think we got more snow this afternoon than from yesterday to this morning.

[LouisEly]

I've come back to WI twice now since moving to STL. Combined total snowfall during the two trips: 16".