midwest/greatlakes snowstorm 12/15-12/16

[Pebbles]

Lotsa snow inc to many! Looks like Chicago-land is about to go heavy snow warning! Post away your obs/thoughts,

(mine will be short due to a stitched and splinted hand that makes typing difficult )

[Pebbles]

Where have all my midwest friends gone? I'm so lonely out here *sighs sadly* It's been snowing very nicely out there for several hours now.. have a few good inches so far with all night left to go.

[ohiostorm]

I guess you could consider me a midwest person. I live in Pittsburgh now but close enough. We just got upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning.

[tomboudreau]

When was Allegheny County upgraded to a warning? I still see there site listing us as a Winter Weather Advisory.

[cpdaman]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/nwatl/loop-avn.html

looks to me like coastal getting going a bit a head of schedule thanks to OLGA's remmnats sucking moisture out of the GOM ( coastal appears to be 50 SW of cape hatteras)

heavy snow around detroit is abating as well as general radar return in the midwest except back near upper low over kansas city and central illinois

also locale's in the mountains of NC were suppose to have freezing rain, yet they are snowing moderately at boone and jefferson so not sure about the mid level warming there as coastal seems to be deepending rather fast to their east. North east could be in for a surprise and midwest for a let down (if they like snow). Me, i'm in FL and waiting for some serious squalls that appear in the deep convection in the E GOM.

[Pebbles]

I guess you could consider me a midwest person. I live in Pittsburgh now but close enough. We just got upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning.

Good enough! We'll take ya!

[Pebbles]

woot! and still coming down good

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
952 PM CST SAT DEC 15 2007

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0940 PM SNOW NEW LENOX 41.52N 87.98W
12/15/2007 M3.6 INCH WILL IL TRAINED SPOTTER

[Cyclenall]

The action is starting here in southern Ontario. The snowflakes are a odd size and that is a dead give-away to a winter storm heading up from the south.

[tropicana]

Really bad right now in the Toronto area, heavy snow and blowing snow and near zero visibility. Pressures have fallen to 998mb.

[cag1953]

I just talked to our son in Michigan,he's just south of Flint. He said they have 5-6 inches and are supposed to get another 5-8 before the end of today. It's windy too. Michigan being our home state,I can honestly say I don't miss that stuff at all!

[tropicana]

we have a lot of accumaltion on my street (not a main street) the snow has drifted into daunting piles, HEAVY snow keeps on coming and coming , visibility 0.4km at Pearson, pressure continues to fall at 996mb.

[Pebbles]

I went out to measure and we got 7.5 inches
My 4 year old went out bundled up first thing this morning to "swim" through the snow. There is nothing... absolutely nothing more beautiful than a little toddlers reaction to lots of snow. She was dancing, making snow angles, tossing it in the air and shouting yippieeeee and trying to catch it with her tounge after throwing it up too! and singing for 45 minute in pure snowy HAPPY-ness.
Wish I had been able to get it on film but forgot to charge the batteries.

[Cyclenall]

we have a lot of accumaltion on my street (not a main street) the snow has drifted into daunting piles, HEAVY snow keeps on coming and coming , visibility 0.4km at Pearson, pressure continues to fall at 996mb.

Hear any thunder or see any lightening?

[tropicana]

yeah! i heard thunder around noon or just after , but only one rumble. Its weird to hear thunder during snow, i know ive heard it before it years past, but the sounds does get muffled out.
After a brief slight lull an hour ago, the snow has now re-intensified over mid-town Toronto, extreme blowing and drifting, virtual whiteout condition again, winds have shifted direction to more north westerly from the looks of the direction of the snow falling. I have no idea how much has really fallen becuase of the winddriven huge piles.

[ohiostorm]

When was Allegheny County upgraded to a warning? I still see there site listing us as a Winter Weather Advisory.

I'm in Beaver county just across the line. We had a warning here. Was later dropped back down to a Winter Weather Advisory.

[tropicana]

here is a report:-

Weather summary for all of southern Ontario and
The national Capital region
Issued by Environment Canada Toronto at 4:51 PM EST Sunday 16
December 2007.

A major winter storm from Texas spread snow and blowing snow across
all of southern Ontario late Saturday into Sunday.
As of 4:00 PM Sunday the storm has ended in the Windsor area and is
expected to taper over all remaining regions by midnight.

Here are some unofficial snowfall amounts as of 4:00 PM Sunday.

Windsor.............21 cm
London..............16 cm ice pellets and freezing rain as well
St cattherines......13 cm ice pellets and freezing rain as well
Grimsby mtn.........21 cm ice pellets and freezing rain as well
Hamilton............16 cm ice pellets and freezing rain as well
Toronto downtown....26 cm thunder/lightning/ice pellets as well
Pearson airport.....18 cm ice pellets as well
Markham.............23 cm ice pellets briefly mixed
Downsview...........20 cm ice pellets briefly mixed
Wiarton.............27 cm
Minden..............25 cm
Orillia.............25 cm
Coldwater...........20 cm
Cornwall............32 cm
Trenton.............17 cm
Ottawa airport......29 cm
Gatineau............20 cm

Please note that this summary contains the observations at
The time of broadcast and does not constitute an official
And final report of the weather events or the high
Impact events attributed to the weather events.

[Pebbles]

Some nice totals there. Very jealous of those of your lightening/thunder during the snow storm. Was telling a friend that it might be possible with this system and she was very surprised. She didn't know there could be thunder with with snow.