Good evening, everyone. It’s full steam ahead toward periods of light snow setting up for the weekend. The period from Friday through Monday will feature a couple of light snow makers zipping across the region and putting down light accumulations during this time.
My thoughts from earlier today remain unchanged. It’s cool to see the two big upper level systems rolling across the region during this time…
That’s a lot of upper level energy with both of those.
If we just take the average accumulations from the 21 member GFS, this is what we get through Monday…
Again, this is a wintry weekend across the entire region.
I will have your full update later tonight. Enjoy the evening and take care.
In response to Schroeder and ECL2002 on the afternoon post…Thundersnow…my first experience with it, didn’t know it could happen, was with the Jan 1994 storm. I am like the biggest snow lover in the world, right, so of course, when the local met started to mention it a week out, I was ready. But by the Sunday afternoon afternoon before, that same met’s station scrolled across the Niner’s game “an inch or less for L-Ville Metro”…so I wasn’t surprised. I did however get up around 3am and go peek out the door. It was barely spitting snow…had to look hard to see it. When I got up for work at 5:30am, I trudged to the kitchen and turned the coffee and radio on as usual. They were talking about all this snow in the Ville and other places, semi’s were stuck, etc. Then I saw a big flash and heard thunder. I was like, “GREAT! THEY get a bunch of snow and we get a —-ing THUNDERSTORM!!”. We had 2 Dobermans at the time, and one got up…I let him out…got my coffee, then here came the other one. I let him out, but then I heard him kinda grunt really loud and yelp, and when I looked out, snow was coming down so hard you couldn’t see the big tree in the middle of the backyard, it had piled up to and covered our back porch, and there was poor Rerun….he’d ran out and landed with a big thud just off the porch, didn’t know what was happening, then a big ol’ flash/thunder again! I ran out on the porch in my jammie’s and was like, “O.M.G.!!!!” 🙂 I literally thought, this cannot be REAL???? I had never heard of such a thing prior, and the snow coming down was just like a gully-washer in snow form! I want that again!!!!!!(Of course, it got me out of a job I despised for a week, and I don’t work now, but I still want it!!! 🙂 )
Thanks for sharing Debbie. I’m so young I wasn’t even alive back in 1994, but I have heard and done some research on it. It didn’t snow as much here in south-central Indiana as it did near the Louisville area, but we still had about 8 or 9 inches. My dad has always talked about how unbelievably cold it was and now I know that the arctic air that followed that storm produced the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of Indiana at -36°F. I’m kind of glad I didn’t have to experience that kind of cold, but I would’ve loved to see the snow especially since like everyone else in the Ohio Valley I’m stuck in a pretty lengthy snowstorm drought.
The Groundhog Day Blizzard in early February of 2011 produced prolific thundersnow throughout the Chicago area along with prolific snow numbers. That was when Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel was reporting live from Chicago during the evening when, all of a sudden, a blinding flash of lightning occurred followed immediately by a loud crash of thunder. Cantore practically jumped out of his boots since the thunder was so loud.