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Snow Squalls May Impact New Year's Eve Travel from the Great Lakes to the Northeast; Heavy Rain Returns to California

An Alberta clipper will bring lake effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes, with the highest snow totals downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Snow squalls may impact New Year's Eve travel during the evening and overnight hours across parts of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, and Northeast. Heavy rain will bring a flash flooding threat for southern California on New Year's Eve into New Year's Day. Read More >

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NWS Northern Indiana New Years 2008 Winter Storm

Weather.gov > Northern Indiana > NWS Northern Indiana New Years 2008 Winter Storm

Heavy snow fell across far Northern Indiana and southwestern lower Michigan starting New Years Eve night and continuing through early Tuesday. Rapidly intensifying low pressure tracked out of the southern plains into parts of Indiana and Ohio. The heaviest snowfall from the system occurred along and borthwest of a Logansport to Columbia City to Montpelier OH line with some locations reporting upwards of 15 to 20 inches before the system moved away.

While the widespread snow departed with the area of low pressure, bands of lake effect snow setup across much of the area with several more focused and intense bands evolving and moving across northern parts of the area. This allowed for isolated increases in snowfall totals downwind of the lake with some locations seeing 3 day storm totals over over 2 feet of snow. 
 

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The colors in this image show radar estimated event total water equivalent for rain and snow. Selected snowfall reports from weather spotters, CoCoRAHS observers, WSBT, and amateur radio reports (black text) are shown in inches.    

Thanks to all the weather observers, media outlets, CoCoRAHS and Amateur Radio Networks for the excellent reports.

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