Absolute Vorticity

Trevor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:54 am This was posted last hour. Angry mob is after ILN on Twitter and FB, and I don’t blame them. They did a terrible job with this system, especially when it comes to catching up this morning as inches began stacking up. Advisory and forecast should have been upgraded hours ago.

Trevor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:56 am Going for the jugular!

tpweather wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:02 am

Trevor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:56 am Going for the jugular!

The good thing is the folks on here did a great job with the Blizzard and again I pay some attention to the NWS but that does mean I always agree with them. This system was always a risk/reward outcome and Les and myself spent way too many hours on this yesterday and we talked about some banding of snow though I thought it would be further north and west plus the area was much greater than I expected. Not sure I saw the NWS talk about banding at all and maybe I just missed that part of their forecast. Just measured about 10 minutes and over 3 inches and counting

Trevor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:56 am Going for the jugular!

tron777 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:07 am

tpweather wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:02 am

Trevor wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:56 am Going for the jugular!

The good thing is the folks on here did a great job with the Blizzard and again I pay some attention to the NWS but that does mean I always agree with them. This system was always a risk/reward outcome and Les and myself spent way too many hours on this yesterday and we talked about some banding of snow though I thought it would be further north and west plus the area was much greater than I expected. Not sure I saw the NWS talk about banding at all and maybe I just missed that part of their forecast. Just measured about 10 minutes and over 3 inches and counting

I pay a lot of attn to their AFD's Tim and you missed nothing. They never once mentioned dynamic cooling, mesoscale banding, etc etc. Not once. We drove that point home hard! It's those little details that you have to pay attention too and ILN was asleep on the job. We were a little low obviously and were a little too far NW with our heaviest snow axis but we absolutely had the correct meteorology and our thought processes were also 100% correct. We knew this was a little bit stronger of a system with a partial phase when those juicer runs started coming in within the last 24 hours as well as the colder look due to dynamic cooling processes.

tpweather wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:17 am I see the NWS put up a winter storm warning for parts of southwest Ohio and southeast Indiana

tron777 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:21 am Another heavy band moving thru, back to heavy snow and big flakes yet again. I think my hood could get to that 5" mark after all. 4" now.

tpweather wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:23 am

tron777 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:21 am Another heavy band moving thru, back to heavy snow and big flakes yet again. I think my hood could get to that 5" mark after all. 4" now.

Les just looked out the weather window in my weather office and the flakes once again have gotten bigger and the rate is heavier

shlybluz wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:36 am Covington checking in. Currently in a band of heavy snow. Not going out to measure , just eyeballing based on the known height of my cinderblock hibachi stand outside my basement door - easily 4 if not 5 inches already. Being as close to the river as I am I expect to be at least 6 to 8 before this is all over.