January 24-25, 2023 | Plains/MW/GL/OV Winter Storm

[MesoscaleBanding]

2 hours ago, Blitz said:

The NWS was calling for 4-6 inches of snow for Columbus on Wednesday morning. They downgraded that to 2-4 pretty late in the day. Ultimately the writing was on the wall for central Ohio by mid-morning yesterday.

Maybe I’m wrong, but weren’t most of the models pretty clear that Central Ohio was going to get too warm to get much of anything at least 24 hours before the event?

If you were up pretty late on Tues. night just before snowfall began, all of the short range modeling (HRRR/RAP/NAM) showed a solid 4-6" across central Ohio

[Hiramite]

Not happy with the need to download, let's try again.... And scanner quality not all that great.

Storm Tracker follow-up.  I'm including:

- first and last Global Tracker

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- the only two Mesoscale Trackers

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Actual

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[Wnwniner]

17 minutes ago, Hiramite said:

Not happy with the need to download, let's try again.... And scanner quality not all that great.

Storm Tracker follow-up.  I'm including:

- first and last Global Tracker

- the only two Mesoscale Trackers

Actual

 

Looks like the RAP and GFS were the best?

[Hiramite]

SREF Tracker Comparison.

Snow totals are for 1/25 and 1/26 combined.  Finding totals for the "smaller" sites is a challenge at times.  The unkonwn amounts are marked with a (?). For yesterday's minor event, I added around 0.5" to some OH sites that didn't have any reports yesterday and marked them with a (~).  If anyone has good data for the amount marked with a (?) or if anything is way off, let me know.  But for the majority of the locations, yesterday's amount were pretty minor.  Actual is bold in varying colors, lol.

The SREF values were given for 1/27 12Z.

 

Toledo (TOL)- 4.1/4.2/5.6/4.9    5.3

Cleveland (CLE)- 3.4/4.0/3.7/3.0      1.8

Youngstown (YNG)- 2.7/3.3/3.0/3.1    3.5

Findlay (FDY)- 3.8/3.8/4.5/3.3     ~3.5

Marion, OH (MNN)- 3.2/3.4/3.3/2.6     ~2.0

Sidney, OH (ROD)- 3.6/3.4/4.2/3.3    ~2.1   

Dayton-S (MGY)- 2.6/2.3/2.6/2.2    ~1.7

Hamilton, OH (HAO)- 1.6/1.3/2.0/1.5    ~1.5

Covington (CVG)- 1.4/0.9/1.2/0.8     0.4

Columbus (CMH)- 1.9/1.6/1.9/1.5      0.8

Mt. Vernon, OH- 3.1/2.5/2.6/1.9      ~2.5

Zanesville (ZZV)- 1.7/1.2/1.4/0.9       0?

Flint (FNT)- 4.3/4.9/5.4/4.6      5.1

Detroit (DTW)- 4.1/4.5/5.5/5.4          6.8

Indy (IND)- 4.3/4.5/6.5/5.8     3.1

Decatur IL (DEC)- 6.2/7.8/6.2/5.1      2.5

Shawnee OK (SNL)- 7.6/10.4/3.6?/3.0?    ??

 

Edited January 27, 2023 by Hiramite

[NWsnowhio]

4 hours ago, Hiramite said:

SREF Tracker Comparison.

Snow totals are for 1/25 and 1/26 combined.  Finding totals for the "smaller" sites is a challenge at times.  The unkonwn amounts are marked with a (?). For yesterday's minor event, I added around 0.5" to some OH sites that didn't have any reports yesterday and marked them with a (~).  If anyone has good data for the amount marked with a (?) or if anything is way off, let me know.  But for the majority of the locations, yesterday's amount were pretty minor.  Actual is bold in varying colors, lol.

The SREF values were given for 1/27 12Z.

 

Toledo (TOL)- 4.1/4.2/5.6/4.9    5.3

Cleveland (CLE)- 3.4/4.0/3.7/3.0      1.8

 

Youngstown (YNG)- 2.7/3.3/3.0/3.1    3.5

 

Findlay (FDY)- 3.8/3.8/4.5/3.3     ??

 

Marion, OH (MNN)- 3.2/3.4/3.3/2.6     ~2.0

 

Sidney, OH (ROD)- 3.6/3.4/4.2/3.3    ~2.1   

 

Dayton-S (MGY)- 2.6/2.3/2.6/2.2    ~1.7

 

Hamilton, OH (HAO)- 1.6/1.3/2.0/1.5    ~1.5

 

Covington (CVG)- 1.4/0.9/1.2/0.8     0.4

 

Columbus (CMH)- 1.9/1.6/1.9/1.5      0.8

 

Mt. Vernon, OH- 3.1/2.5/2.6/1.9      ~2.5

 

Zanesville (ZZV)- 1.7/1.2/1.4/0.9       0?

 

Flint (FNT)- 4.3/4.9/5.4/4.6      5.1

 

Detroit (DTW)- 4.1/4.5/5.5/5.4          6.8

 

Indy (IND)- 4.3/4.5/6.5/5.8     3.1

 

Decatur IL (DEC)- 6.2/7.8/6.2/5.1      2.5

 

 

 

Shawnee OK (SNL)- 7.6/10.4/3.6?/3.0?    ??

 

I can verify that Findlay was close to those numbers...call it somewhere around 3.5" from my vantage point. 

[Hiramite]

3 minutes ago, NWsnowhio said:

I can verify that Findlay was close to those numbers...call it somewhere around 3.5" from my vantage point. 

Change made. Thanks!!

Edited January 27, 2023 by Hiramite

[cperry29]

5 hours ago, Hiramite said:

SREF Tracker Comparison.

Snow totals are for 1/25 and 1/26 combined.  Finding totals for the "smaller" sites is a challenge at times.  The unkonwn amounts are marked with a (?). For yesterday's minor event, I added around 0.5" to some OH sites that didn't have any reports yesterday and marked them with a (~).  If anyone has good data for the amount marked with a (?) or if anything is way off, let me know.  But for the majority of the locations, yesterday's amount were pretty minor.  Actual is bold in varying colors, lol.

The SREF values were given for 1/27 12Z.

 

Toledo (TOL)- 4.1/4.2/5.6/4.9    5.3

Cleveland (CLE)- 3.4/4.0/3.7/3.0      1.8

Youngstown (YNG)- 2.7/3.3/3.0/3.1    3.5

Findlay (FDY)- 3.8/3.8/4.5/3.3     ~3.5

Marion, OH (MNN)- 3.2/3.4/3.3/2.6     ~2.0

Sidney, OH (ROD)- 3.6/3.4/4.2/3.3    ~2.1   

Dayton-S (MGY)- 2.6/2.3/2.6/2.2    ~1.7

Hamilton, OH (HAO)- 1.6/1.3/2.0/1.5    ~1.5

Covington (CVG)- 1.4/0.9/1.2/0.8     0.4

Columbus (CMH)- 1.9/1.6/1.9/1.5      0.8

Mt. Vernon, OH- 3.1/2.5/2.6/1.9      ~2.5

Zanesville (ZZV)- 1.7/1.2/1.4/0.9       0?

Flint (FNT)- 4.3/4.9/5.4/4.6      5.1

Detroit (DTW)- 4.1/4.5/5.5/5.4          6.8

Indy (IND)- 4.3/4.5/6.5/5.8     3.1

Decatur IL (DEC)- 6.2/7.8/6.2/5.1      2.5

Shawnee OK (SNL)- 7.6/10.4/3.6?/3.0?    ??

 

Few whiffs but overall they did quite well I’d say. Thanks for taking the time to put that together 🙂