12:00am: If conditions keep up like this and you try to drive in it, you're crazy. Couldn't see the road part of the time I was coming home from work.
(9:41:13 PM) nwsbot: LOT: Mount Morris [Ogle Co, IL] co-op observer reports SNOW of M2.5 INCH at 09:30 PM CST -- snowfall through 930 pm. still snowing.
(9:18:55 PM) nwsbot: LOT: 3 Se South Beloit [Winnebago Co, IL] co-op observer reports SNOW of M1.2 INCH at 06:00 PM CST -- total snowfall through 6 pm. still snowing.
(9:17:51 PM) nwsbot: DVN: Galena [Jo Daviess Co, IL] co-op observer reports SNOW of M1.5 INCH at 09:12 PM CST --
(9:13:54 PM) nwsbot: DVN: 3 N Sterling [Whiteside Co, IL] public reports SNOW of M1.5 INCH at 09:12 PM CST --
8:30pm: Paula in Stockton just emailed me to let me know that the wind has hit there. She says the snow is blowing, visibility is bad, and the temperature in the house has already dropped. This will make it to Rockford within the next couple of hours. Conditions will quickly deteriorate once the cold wind arrives. All highways in northeastern Iowa are designated as "Travel Not Advised." Our roads will also become snow-covered with blowing snow. I've also seen a handful of reports of blizzard conditions in eastern Iowa.
(7:30:53 PM) nwsbot: DVN: Galena [Jo Daviess Co, IL] co-op observer reports SNOW of E1.0 INCH at 07:29 PM CST --
(5:18:28 PM) nwsbot: DVN: Freeport [Stephenson Co, IL] trained spotter reports SNOW of M1.1 INCH at 05:08 PM CST -- 1.1 inches of new snowfall...making for 11 to 13 inches of total snow depth in central freeport.
3:15pm: BLIZZARD WARNING FOR JO DAVIESS, CARROLL, AND STEPHENSON COUNTIES
WINTER STORM WARNING for Green, Rock, Walworth.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY for Winnebago, Boone, McHenry, Ogle, Lee, DeKalb.
A fairly brief period of snow will occur this afternoon and evening, amounting to 1-2" in most places. The big story will be the very strong winds behind the fresh snow. Severe blowing and drifting is expected with blizzard to near-blizzard conditions likely overnight through much of the day Sunday. Bitter cold wind chills to -30° are also likely. This is will be a dangerous weather situation... and if you venture outside, potentially life-threatening.
BLIZZARD WATCH for Jo Daviess, Carroll, Stephenson Counties.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY for all counties.
WIND CHILL ADVISORY for all counties.
What does all this mean? The entire area is expected to have some snowfall accumulation through tomorrow. Amounts look to be fairly low; however, very strong winds will create significant blowing and drifting snow. There is the potential for blizzard conditions.
Frigid temperatures will accompany these strong winds, creating dangerously cold wind chills of -20 to -30, perhaps colder.
I'll have more this afternoon and evening. Regardless, the weather tonight and tomorrow will be potentially extremely dangerous due to whiteout conditions and extremely cold wind chills.
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Well I guess all this arctic air will officially welcome in the official start to winter which is at 6:04 am tomorrow morning. What is worse for me is that I leave work at 10pm tonight and will have to walk to my car and walk right into the teeth of the wind.
I thought Winter didn't officially start until Monday. Oh well, whatever. At any rate I hope that Spring will arrive equally early, and that by March 31 we will have to keep reminding one another, "It isn't even officially Spring yet!"
Starts tomorrow... first full day is Monday.
Would it be possible to remind people during the weather to use you headlights when it's snowing. I lost count Friday how many people I saw that you could hardly see in the heavy snow without headlights on.
Hmm, I take it that there's no sense to going out to shovel now since the wind will probably undo any such shoveling in short order?
Indeed. Moline had a gust to 40mph last hour... Monroe to 32mph... Dubuque to 30mph.
In my 32 years of being on this earth, I have never seen it this bad, well I was 2 years old in 79 so I don't remember much that year lol
Beloit: In town it is not so bad here. I would think if you live in town and want to drive a few blocks in town to church (or wherever) it'll probably be okay, assuming you can get the car started that is.
I am 33 years old and unless it happened when I was young, I honestly don't think I have ever seen wind chills this low. -30 to -40 wind chills is just seems so unreal unless you live in alaska or the north pole. Wow. Then after this we get to focus on the possible snow on tuesday.
Well... I have ...
When I was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) I had a route delivering the Saturday and Sunday Minneapolis Star Tribune (a big hulk of a Sunday paper) to 400+ customers. I'd start at 1:30 a.m. and with any luck would be done by 7:00 a.m.
I remember one Sunday morning when the wind chill was reported to be -70 below zero (I do think they computed wind chills slightly differently in those days though).
That had been a snowy winter too, and the snow was deep and blowing around - and a lot of sidewalks weren't shoveled.
The route was slow and exhausting, partly because of all the unshoveled walks and partly because I was stopping to sit in the car and warm up every so often so as to avoid losing any fingers or toes (literally).
I didn't actually finish it until about 8:30 a.m., and honestly, I felt lucky not to be literally dead and not to have lost any fingers or toes by the time I finished (I think I did get frostbite on a few of them though). There were 1000 times when I thought I was too much of a wimp to finish that route, but I kept telling myself, "You don't have a choice, just do it."
The most amazing thing was: My supervisor got more COMPLAINTS that day about the paper being late, or about it not being stuck just exactly perfectly correctly in the right orientation inside the (frozen) door just exactly the way the customer wanted it ... than on any other single day the entire time I had that job.
Bleh. People.
I quit that paper route shortly after that & got a job working in a convenience store instead.
Wind chills last night and today, if using the old scale, would be in the neighborhood of -60°.
Interesting.
Hey, how to you type that "degrees" symbol on the keyboard anyway?
We use Alt+0176. Didn't know it until ES showed it to me way back when!
° <----- Cool - it works. Thx.
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