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Good evening, it is February 3, and welcome to a recap discussion of the storm. This storm is a dangerous storm right now it's an ice storm, lots of ice storm warnings, especially for places in Texas that had a very profound impact for those places going really highways, which cover from Texas all the way into the Northeast. And however, we're not going to be focusing so much on that we're going to be focusing more on the fun part of the storm.

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The fun part of this storm, right? The fun part of the storm is the snow part of the storm. And let's just go back to Monday, it was a complex storm. And that's why I wanted to just it's a unique storm, something that we don't usually get here in the Midwest, it happens but it's not the usual type of storm. So let me just explain the usual type of storm system that affects us the big storms that affect us here in the Midwest, the ones that produce more than six inches, and the ones which are forecasted to produce a widespread six inch plus

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are those low pressure systems that develop over let's say Oklahoma or so. And then they kind of dip a little bit south into Texas, this is called the Panhandle hook, it collides with lots of Gulf moisture, and then it also collides with an Arctic airmass. Low pressure generally a lot of times is under 1000 MB, which means it's about 29.5 or less, a lot of times 29.4. I remember in 2008, that winter, maybe 2009 29.4 Low pressure brought 14 or 15 inches of snow to Milwaukee. Now realize when you're trying to figure it out the storms intensity from just the barometric pressure

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to major forecaster for to the AccuWeather pointed out that for the East Coast, a good indicator to know whether a storm is going to produce a foot or more or not, is does the storm have a barometric pressure of 29.2 or lower. If it's not 29.2, then usually a foot will not be forecasted for the East Coast. Here in the Midwest, I would imagine we have different standards here because it's not so common to get a low pressure of 29.2. But you know, at the same time, the winter storms don't seem to be as big here in the Midwest. Anyways, we had a low pressure system, which was not really so much no Gaya, this it's not really so much connected to the snow. But I'm just going to mention it because it did have the barometric pressure at 29.2. And it actually did play a major role in getting this whole thing started. So that was the low pressure that was located just north of the Minnesota or North Dakota area in southern Canada. And if you looked on the map, it really looked intense. It had a lot of spin to it. 29.3 it was 29.3. On Monday, it moved northeast, they think now I think it intensified to 29.2. Tuesday as well. You might have actually was in just north of North Minnesota in Minnesota on Tuesday, and then it headed northeast. Now the way these low pressure systems work is that they were they were counter clockwise, the winds go counter clockwise around the low pressure. So areas to the east of the low pressure have Northwind of South winds and areas to the west of the low pressure have Northwind. So it brings in all the warm air to the east, which was many areas here in the Midwest, especially the southeast. A lot of times the warm air doesn't quite make it up in the Northeast because it tends to go over the colder air at the surface. But here in Chicago, we were on the warm in the warm sector of the system, in fact, much warmer or at least a little bit warmer than what was forecasted to happen. Temperatures in parts of Chicago area actually had 50 degrees on Tuesday, just amazing. 50 degrees in parts of the Chicago area on Tuesday, and precipitation moved in as well. That's because we had lots of golf moisture this was visible on any weather map you looked at from days ago days ago already was well advertised. The moisture available with the system was well advertised...

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Good afternoon, everybody. This Thursday afternoon. This is a quick recap : (several minutes later), the O'Hare Airport, the official recording session, we see it 5.6 inches.
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. Now I would like to read some of these snow totals that this comes from the National Weather Service. And this is from six o'clock pm Central Standard Time on Tuesday, February 1 through 8am today, so let me just read you the top. The top totals from various states Arkansas, Bella Vista, three miles northwest of Bella Vista. That's what the recording session is. They got nine inches of snow. That's an Arkansas, Colorado 14 Garland 13.3 miles east of Fort garland got 22.4 inches of snow. It looks like that is the top amount. I'm just going to tell you six miles northeast of Denver that's considered Denver. They got 13.6 inches of snow into Illinois. The top of Mount was Macomb, the Macomb County where the recording station is one mile south east of Macomb. 14.5 inches. Also Lewis town in Illinois. 14.4 inches. Peoria, Illinois.

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The recording session is three miles northwest of Peoria 12.1 inches Bloomington, Illinois. The weather station. There's 2.7 miles northeast of Bloomington. They got 12 inches Cantin 12 inches to another state. in Peoria, another Peoria one hour north of Peoria. 12 inches Quincy, one mile west of Quincy. 11.5 inches. I know he said one city per state but we have to put Illinois. I mean this is Illinois. I mean, Vermont, Illinois 11.3 Midway Airport. 11.0 inches. 11 inches. Normal Illinois also 11 inches in the Chicago Romeoville National Weather Service office 10 inches. Now we go into Indiana, Cedar Lake Indiana, 12.5 inches, the same for Miss Miss Shaohua aka Michelle Walker. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing it right. They also got 12.5 inches. Akron, 12.0 Bowling prairie 4.0 Logan Port 11, Michigan City 11 Morocco 11. Well in 11, South Bend Indiana, the recording station is two miles east of South Bend. They got 10.3 as early this morning, and really there's not much more expected for today. In fact, the National Weather Service is saying just to trace you go into Iowa the highest amount Iowa was motor mo dar one mile south southwest of that city, five inches. Kansas the highest amount was climax. Climax Kansas Kansas nine inches. You go into Topeka, Kansas 4.6 Michigan, St. Joseph Michigan 13.8 inches and go into Missouri New London, Missouri. 12.2 inches Annabelle 11.5 inches. Columbia Missouri reporting stations six miles south east of Columbia 9.7. Springfield, Missouri seven inches St. Louis 6.5 Kansas City 3.8 New Mexico got bombarded with snow cannon Plaza 21 inches, Tahoe ski Valley 20 inches and Santa Fe 3.5 inches. The weather station there's 2.7 miles East northeast in Ohio so far, Ohio is much further east so we're probably still waiting for further snow totals over there but so far as of this morning, Montpelier, Ohio 6.5 inches and similar amounts for the other cities in Ohio mentioned Oklahoma highest amount 6.2 inches and Tulsa Oklahoma, Pennsylvania so far, you know there's not much there yet. The probably will be a lot more Erie, Pennsylvania. 2.7 inches. Texas. Turpin, Texas eight eight inches beaver six inches Groover six inches fritch 5.5 Amarillo Texas that's my favorite city so three miles north of Amarillo Texas 5.1 inches going into Wyoming Cheyenne Wyoming seven inches and I here we have selected preliminary oh so all of those all of those amounts that have so one second year selected preliminary storm total snowfall in inches. Selected pruners. Alright, continuing again. This is I don't know. Okay. I don't know the difference. Oh, total sleet This is the sleet accumulations Arkansas, Otter Creek two inches. Illinois. Carbondale 1.8 inches Kentucky in Henderson attempt of an inch Missouri Shrewsbury one inch Oklahoma. Sup Soper point eight inches. Texas Sweetwater 1.5 This is the sleet Okay, now we go to freezing...

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everyone it is Monday evening, January 31. I wish everybody a good thing. Clay desh was Scottish other. We are in the midst of just a day before that storm we spoke about last Thursday several days ago, we mentioned that there's going to be a Arctic airmass colliding with copious amounts of Gulf moisture. The gates to the Gulf of Mexico have opened up and all of its moisture is streaming right along the front. In fact, we have A Flash Flood Watch in effect for the Texas area. The storm we spoke about Thursday we mentioned it's going to be getting together organizing itself in the mid part of the country, bringing one to two feet of snow in the bull's eye, nothing has changed. That's the forecast I wanted two feet in the bull's eye, there is more clarity in regards to where this storm is going to be going. It's going to be south of Chicago, South Bend, Indiana will be the bullseye. That's what I think 12 to 24 inches, I think more than 12 inches for South Bend. 1516 inches, maybe even more. More than that maybe 1516. Springfield, Illinois wanted two feet as well. It's hard to say one to two feet, there also could be some freezing rain and sleet over in that area, the beginning of the precipitation might start off as rain even in South Bend, that's not really going to dampen the snow too much, though, a Thursday is going to be really the main powdery heavy snow, that's when the soda water ratio will be 13 to one. As the colder air comes in, the flakes become fluffier, and they pile up quicker. Also, despite the fact we don't have any intense low pressure over here, very strange. We have the arctic air we have the Gulf moisture, usually in the Midwest, in order to produce a major winter storm which is defined to six inches or more, you need a deep low pressure system. You know, I searched and searched I checked the GFS model, I checked the European computer model, and I see an intense low pressure in southern Canada. But that has nothing to do with this. The only thing that has to do with this is that's going to be responsible for bringing in the cold air. It's the front associated with that low pressure in Canada, that's going to bring in the cold air, that's going to cause the precipitation to change to snow rather quickly. But the main precipitation, the main moisture, which is in the hole, all the moisture involved in the systems coming out of the Gulf of Mexico. And it kind of you know, its revolves around this 29.7 low in Texas, if even that that low pressure system then opens up into the Tennessee Valley. Eventually we do find this a 29.7 low pressure system, which moves across the Tennessee or Ohio Valley on Thursday, making its way to the East Coast affecting cities like Buffalo, New York, Syracuse, New York, Providence, Rhode Island as well. Those cities also could get heavy snowfall from this as well wanted to feed again in the bullseye going south of Chicago, Springfield, Illinois, South Bend, Indiana, there also could be some lake effect on the backside, the lake effect snow could also be affecting Chicago. That's really a big wild card over here how much snow is going to be falling Thursday from the lake effect snow, and also the the initial stage, which happens through over running, I think that will affect the Chicago area, bringing several inches of snow and that initial stage the overriding it's really this main system itself. That's the question for the Chicago area. We have arctic air very dry air just to our north, it's going to cause a lot of the snow to evaporate before it touches the ground for the Chicago area, especially areas north of Chicago. And that's why the Chicago area might not get much snow from the system itself. But before that arctic air comes that close to Chicago, we will see some snowfall Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning America, Cheyenne, it's possible the snow might even fall heavily for it time. And then you know, then when As that arctic high gets closer and...

This podcast is both a rough draft and a final draft. It's purpose is to try to share with the public an appreciation for the upcoming forecasted winter storm in the Midwest which includes a record warmth component to it on its Eastern side. I can not promise that all the details in this podcast are 100% accurate.