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Fast Facts
Dec 16-18 Snow Totals
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| ***Totals from Friday December 16th - Sunday, December 18th**** |
Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville IL
0850 AM CST Sun Dec 18 2016
...2-Day Snowfall Roundup...
The following are snow amounts for the previous 2 days
as measured in the morning by NWS Cooperative Observers
and CoCoRaHS observers. Observations are usually
taken at 7 AM.
2-DAY SNOW TOTALS FOR Sunday (12/18/16)
as of 08:50 AM CST
ILLINOIS 2-Day Snowfall
Location (County): Amt(inches) Reports
Ashton (Lee)..................................7.0 (2)
Wonder Lake 1WNW (McHenry)....................6.2 (2)
Elgin 2W (Kane)...............................5.8 (2)
Monee (Will)..................................5.4 (2)
Hebron (McHenry)..............................5.4 (2)
Roscoe 2se (Winnebago)........................5.0 (2)
Mundelein (Lake)..............................5.0 (2)
Roscoe 2ESE (Winnebago).......................5.0 (2)
Capron (Boone)................................4.9 (2)
Genoa (De Kalb)...............................4.6 (2)
Mundelein 2WNW (Lake).........................4.5 (2)
Barrington (Lake).............................4.3 (2)
Waukegan 2N (Lake)............................4.2 (1)
Lake Zurich (Lake)............................4.0 (2)
Lincolnwood 2E (Cook).........................4.0 (2)
Elgin (Kane)..................................3.9 (2)
Rockford (Winnebago)..........................3.7 (2)
Downers Grove 0.4NNE (Du Page)................3.6 (2)
Beach Park 1W (Lake)..........................3.5 (1)
Cortland (De Kalb)............................3.5 (2)
Oak Park 2S (Cook)............................3.5 (2)
De Kalb (De Kalb).............................3.5 (2)
Ohare (Cook)..................................3.4 (2)
St. Charles 6NW (Kane)........................3.4 (2)
Geneva 1SSW (Kane)............................3.3 (2)
Romeoville (Will).............................3.1 (2)
Highwood 1S (Lake)............................3.1 (1)
Joliet Lock/dam (Will)........................3.0 (2)
Somonauk 2NE (De Kalb)........................3.0 (2)
Elk Grove Village 2WSW (Cook).................3.0 (2)
Chicago 6ESE (Cook)...........................3.0 (2)
Gurnee 2W (Lake)..............................2.9 (1)
Aurora 4SE (Du Page)..........................2.9 (2)
Woodstock 5nw (McHenry).......................2.7 (1)
Plainfield 2SSE (Will)........................2.6 (2)
Lisle (Du Page)...............................2.6 (2)
Machesney Park 3ENE (Winnebago)...............2.5 (1)
Algonquin 1N (McHenry)........................2.5 (1)
Bull Valley 2WNW (McHenry)....................2.5 (1)
Lake Villa 2WSW (Lake)........................2.5 (1)
Lake Forest 2NNE (Lake).......................2.5 (1)
Lake Villa 1SSW (Lake)........................2.5 (1)
Dixon 2SW (Lee)...............................2.5 (1)
North Aurora 2NE (Kane).......................2.5 (2)
Batavia 2WNW (Kane)...........................2.5 (2)
Midway Coop (Cook)............................2.4 (2)
New Lenox 2SE (Will)..........................2.4 (2)
Rockford 1NW (Winnebago)......................2.2 (1)
Elburn (Kane).................................2.2 (2)
Woodstock (McHenry)...........................2.1 (1)
Rockford 3NE (Winnebago)......................2.1 (1)
Coal City 4NNW (Grundy).......................2.1 (2)
Plainfield (Will).............................2.0 (2)
Joliet 2n (Will)..............................2.0 (2)
Rockford 2ENE (Winnebago).....................2.0 (1)
Bonfield 4WSW (Kankakee)......................2.0 (2)
Dwight (Livingston)...........................2.0 (2)
Peotone (Will)................................1.9 (2)
Harvard 3SSE (McHenry)........................1.9 (1)
Burr Ridge 2SW (Du Page)......................1.9 (2)
Woodstock 4SW (McHenry).......................1.8 (1)
Palos Park 1SW (Cook).........................1.8 (2)
Park Forest 1SW (Cook)........................1.7 (2)
Chicago Ridge (Cook)..........................1.7 (2)
Bourbonnais (Kankakee)........................1.7 (2)
Rolling Meadows 1ESE (Cook)...................1.6 (1)
St Anne (Kankakee)............................1.5 (1)
Byron 3N (Ogle)...............................1.5 (1)
Buffalo Grove 2N (Lake).......................1.5 (1)
Lincolnshire 1N (Lake)........................1.5 (1)
Lincolnwood 3E (Cook).........................1.5 (1)
Riverwoods (Lake).............................1.4 (1)
Ottawa (La Salle).............................1.3 (2)
Elgin 1S (Kane)...............................1.3 (1)
Elk Grove Village 1ESE (Cook).................1.3 (1)
Winnetka 1ESE (Cook)..........................1.3 (1)
Schaumburg 2E (Cook)..........................1.3 (1)
Hoffman Estates 5W (Cook).....................1.3 (1)
Elgin (Kane)..................................1.3 (1)
Botanic Gardens (Cook)........................1.3 (1)
Wilmington 3SE (Will).........................1.2 (2)
Streator 4ENE (La Salle)......................1.2 (2)
Streator (Livingston).........................1.0 (1)
Marseilles (La Salle).........................1.0 (2)
Elburn (Kane).................................1.0 (1)
Lily Lake 2E (Kane)...........................1.0 (1)
Geneva 4WSW (Kane)............................1.0 (1)
Naperville 2SE (Du Page)......................1.0 (1)
Oak Park 1NNE (Cook)..........................1.0 (1)
Park Ridge (Cook).............................1.0 (1)
Chatsworth (Livingston).......................1.0 (2)
Crete 3E (Will)...............................0.8 (1)
Glen Ellyn 2SSE (Du Page).....................0.8 (1)
Glen Ellyn (Du Page)..........................0.8 (1)
Elmhurst 2SE (Du Page)........................0.7 (1)
De Kalb (De Kalb).............................0.7 (1)
Lansing (Cook)................................0.6 (1)
Naperville 1NW (Du Page)......................0.6 (1)
Elmhurst 1ESE (Du Page).......................0.6 (1)
Batavia (Kane)................................0.6 (1)
Westmont (Du Page)............................0.5 (1)
Rochelle (Ogle)...............................0.5 (2)
Park Forest (Cook)............................0.5 (1)
Naperville 4SSW (Will)........................0.5 (1)
Lockport 1SE (Will)...........................0.5 (1)
Sterling 4NE (Lee)............................0.5 (1)
Batavia 1WNW (Kane)...........................0.5 (1)
Watseka 6.9WNW (Iroquois).....................0.5 (2)
Bridgeview 1NNW (Cook)........................0.5 (1)
New Lenox 3E (Will)...........................0.4 (1)
Homer Glen 1ENE (Will)........................0.4 (1)
Sugar Grove 1NE (Kane)........................0.4 (1)
Plainfield 5SW (Kendall)......................0.4 (1)
Montgomery 1SSE (Kendall).....................0.4 (1)
Aurora 4SE (Du Page)..........................0.4 (1)
Bolingbrook 3NE (Du Page).....................0.4 (1)
Burnham-hegewisch 2NNW (Cook).................0.4 (1)
Homewood (Cook)...............................0.4 (1)
Oak Lawn 2WNW (Cook)..........................0.4 (1)
Park Ridge 1WNW (Cook)........................0.4 (1)
Worth (Cook)..................................0.4 (1)
Willow Springs (Cook).........................0.3 (1)
Momence (Kankakee)............................0.3 (1)
Streator 1WSW (La Salle)......................0.3 (1)
Yorkville 2SE (Kendall).......................0.2 (1)
Steward (Lee).................................0.2 (1)
Manhattan (Will)..............................0.2 (1)
Manhattan 2SE (Will)..........................0.2 (1)
Manhattan 5ENE (Will).........................0.2 (1)
Minooka (Grundy)..............................0.2 (1)
Coal City (Grundy)............................0.2 (1)
Carbon Hill 3.1N (Grundy).....................0.2 (1)
Earlville 3S (La Salle).......................0.2 (1)
La Salle (La Salle)...........................0.1 (1)
Morris 6ESE (Grundy)..........................0.1 (1)
Paxton (Ford).................................0.0 (1)
Pontiac (Livingston)..........................0.0 (1)
Paw Paw (Lee).................................0.0 (1)
Morris (Grundy)...............................0.0 (1)
Mendota (La Salle)............................0.0 (1)
Plainfield 1SW (Will).........................0.0 (1)
Chatsworth (Livingston).......................0.0 (1)
Ottawa 2N (La Salle)..........................0.0 (1)
Sheridan 3SSE (La Salle)......................0.0 (1)
Ottawa 1NW (La Salle).........................0.0 (1)
Ashkum 5.6E (Iroquois)........................0.0 (1)
Braceville (Grundy)...........................0.0 (1)
INDIANA 2-Day Snowfall
Location (County): Amt(inches) Reports
Porter 1S (Porter)...........................10.5 (2)
Portage 1ESE (Porter).........................9.5 (2)
Valparaiso 6WSW (Porter)......................6.3 (2)
(w9mal)Merrillville 2NNW (Lake)...............4.6 (2)
Valparaiso 4SW (Porter).......................3.7 (2)
(w9opr)Wheatfield 1ENE (Jasper)...............3.0 (2)
Crown Point (Lake)............................2.6 (2)
Morocco (Newton)..............................2.0 (2)
De Motte 1NNW (Jasper)........................1.3 (2)
Valparaiso 6SSW (Porter)......................1.0 (1)
De Motte 6S (Jasper)..........................1.0 (1)
Hebron 4NE (Porter)...........................0.7 (1)
St. John (Lake)...............................0.7 (1)
Dyer 1WNW (Lake)..............................0.6 (1)
Rensselaer (Jasper)...........................0.5 (2)
Remington (Jasper)............................0.5 (2)
Chesterton 4E (Porter)........................0.5 (1)
Crown Point 2WSW (Lake).......................0.5 (1)
Portage 3E (Porter)...........................0.3 (1)
Wheatfield 3S (Jasper)........................0.2 (1)
Mount Ayr 2NNE (Newton).......................0.1 (1)
Crown Point 1N (Lake).........................0.1 (1)
De Motte 4SW (Jasper).........................0.0 (1)
Remington (Jasper)............................0.0 (1)
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Dec 16 Snow
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| ***Totals from Friday, December 16th**** |
Public Information Statement National Weather Service Chicago IL 1017 AM CST Sat Dec 17 2016 ...Morning Snowfall Roundup... The following are snow amounts for the previous 24 hours as measured in the morning by NWS Cooperative Observers and CoCoRaHS observers. Observations are usually taken at 7 AM. 24-hour Snowfall Amounts for Saturday(12/17/16)... Northern Illinois Snow Location (County): fall(inches) Ashton (Lee)..................................4.7 Waukegan 2N (Lake)............................4.2 Beach Park 1W (Lake)..........................3.5 Hebron (McHenry)..............................3.3 Highwood 1S (Lake)............................3.1 Gurnee 2W (Lake)..............................2.9 Wonder Lake 1WNW (McHenry)....................2.8 Woodstock 5nw (McHenry).......................2.7 Lake Villa 2WSW (Lake)........................2.5 Bull Valley 2WNW (McHenry)....................2.5 Algonquin 1N (McHenry)........................2.5 Mundelein (Lake)..............................2.4 Genoa (De Kalb)...............................2.2 Roscoe 2ESE (Winnebago).......................2.2 Rockford 1NW (Winnebago)......................2.2 Roscoe 2se (Winnebago)........................2.2 Capron (Boone)................................2.1 Mundelein 2WNW (Lake).........................2.1 Woodstock (McHenry)...........................2.1 Rockford 2ENE (Winnebago).....................2.0 Harvard 3SSE (McHenry)........................1.9 Elgin (Kane)..................................1.5 Elgin 2W (Kane)...............................1.5 Lincolnshire 1N (Lake)........................1.5 Byron 3N (Ogle)...............................1.5 Lake Zurich (Lake)............................1.5 Rockford (Winnebago)..........................1.5 Riverwoods (Lake).............................1.4 Barrington (Lake).............................1.3 Botanic Gardens (Cook)........................1.3 Elgin (Kane)..................................1.3 Hoffman Estates 5W (Cook).....................1.3 Winnetka 1ESE (Cook)..........................1.3 Elk Grove Village 1ESE (Cook).................1.3 Ohare (Cook)..................................1.2 Geneva 1SSW (Kane)............................1.1 Oak Park 2S (Cook)............................1.0 Park Ridge (Cook).............................1.0 Oak Park 1NNE (Cook)..........................1.0 Elk Grove Village 2WSW (Cook).................1.0 Lincolnwood 2E (Cook).........................1.0 Somonauk 2NE (De Kalb)........................1.0 Geneva 4WSW (Kane)............................1.0 Streator (Livingston).........................1.0 Downers Grove 0.4NNE (Du Page)................0.9 St. Charles 6NW (Kane)........................0.9 Glen Ellyn 2SSE (Du Page).....................0.8 Lisle (Du Page)...............................0.8 Crete 3E (Will)...............................0.8 Elburn (Kane).................................0.7 De Kalb (De Kalb).............................0.7 Elmhurst 2SE (Du Page)........................0.7 Elburn (Kane).................................0.7 Batavia (Kane)................................0.6 De Kalb (De Kalb).............................0.5 Chicago 6ESE (Cook)...........................0.5 Cortland (De Kalb)............................0.5 Bonfield 4WSW (Kankakee)......................0.5 Batavia 2WNW (Kane)...........................0.5 North Aurora 2NE (Kane).......................0.5 Batavia 1WNW (Kane)...........................0.5 Peotone (Will)................................0.5 Lockport 1SE (Will)...........................0.5 Naperville 4SSW (Will)........................0.5 Midway Coop (Cook)............................0.5 Peotone (Will)................................0.5 Rochelle (Ogle)...............................0.5 Westmont (Du Page)............................0.5 Bourbonnais (Kankakee)........................0.4 Chicago Ridge (Cook)..........................0.4 Worth (Cook)..................................0.4 Park Ridge 1WNW (Cook)........................0.4 Park Forest 1SW (Cook)........................0.4 Oak Lawn 2WNW (Cook)..........................0.4 Palos Park 1SW (Cook).........................0.4 Homewood (Cook)...............................0.4 Aurora 4SE (Du Page)..........................0.4 Bolingbrook 3NE (Du Page).....................0.4 Aurora 4SE (Du Page)..........................0.4 Burr Ridge 2SW (Du Page)......................0.4 Montgomery 1SSE (Kendall).....................0.4 Plainfield 5SW (Kendall)......................0.4 Sugar Grove 1NE (Kane)........................0.4 Homer Glen 1ENE (Will)........................0.4 New Lenox 2SE (Will)..........................0.4 New Lenox 3E (Will)...........................0.4 Streator 1WSW (La Salle)......................0.3 Plainfield (Will).............................0.3 Willow Springs (Cook).........................0.3 Coal City 4NNW (Grundy).......................0.2 Earlville 3S (La Salle).......................0.2 Carbon Hill 3.1N (Grundy).....................0.2 Minooka (Grundy)..............................0.2 Streator 4ENE (La Salle)......................0.2 Manhattan 5ENE (Will).........................0.2 Plainfield 2SSE (Will)........................0.2 Wilmington 3SE (Will).........................0.2 Manhattan 2SE (Will)..........................0.2 Joliet 2n (Will)..............................0.2 Manhattan (Will)..............................0.2 Steward (Lee).................................0.2 Yorkville 2SE (Kendall).......................0.2 Morris 6ESE (Grundy)..........................0.1 La Salle (La Salle)...........................0.1 Romeoville (Will).............................0.1 Dwight (Livingston).........................TRACE Braceville (Grundy).........................TRACE Ashkum 5.6E (Iroquois)......................TRACE Watseka 6.9WNW (Iroquois)...................TRACE Ottawa 1NW (La Salle).......................TRACE Ottawa 2N (La Salle)........................TRACE Plainfield 1SW (Will).......................TRACE Joliet Lock/dam (Will)......................TRACE Mendota (La Salle)..........................TRACE Morris (Grundy).............................TRACE Ottawa (La Salle)...........................TRACE Paw Paw (Lee)...............................TRACE Park Forest (Cook)..........................TRACE Pontiac (Livingston)........................TRACE Northwest Indiana Snow Location (County): fall(inches) (w9mal)Merrillville 2NNW (Lake)...............1.1 Valparaiso 6SSW (Porter)......................1.0 Valparaiso 6WSW (Porter)......................0.9 Porter 1S (Porter)............................0.8 Hebron 4NE (Porter)...........................0.7 Dyer 1WNW (Lake)..............................0.6 Crown Point 2WSW (Lake).......................0.5 Valparaiso 4SW (Porter).......................0.5 Portage 1ESE (Porter).........................0.5 Chesterton 4E (Porter)........................0.5 De Motte 1NNW (Jasper)........................0.3 Portage 3E (Porter)...........................0.2 Crown Point (Lake)............................0.1 Crown Point 1N (Lake).........................0.1 Mount Ayr 2NNE (Newton).......................0.1 Remington (Jasper)..........................TRACE De Motte 4SW (Jasper).......................TRACE (w9opr)Wheatfield 1ENE (Jasper).............TRACE Morocco (Newton)............................TRACE Remington (Jasper)..........................TRACE $$
Dec 17-18 Snow
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| ***Totals from Saturday, December 17th-Sunday, December 18th**** |
Public Information Statement National Weather Service Chicago IL 0847 AM CST Sun Dec 18 2016 ...Morning Snowfall Roundup... The following are snow amounts for the previous 24 hours as measured in the morning by NWS Cooperative Observers and CoCoRaHS observers. Observations are usually taken at 7 AM. 24-hour Snowfall Amounts for Sunday(12/18/16)... Northern Illinois Snow Location (County): fall(inches) Monee (Will)..................................4.9 Elgin 2W (Kane)...............................4.3 Wonder Lake 1WNW (McHenry)....................3.4 Barrington (Lake).............................3.0 De Kalb (De Kalb).............................3.0 Lincolnwood 2E (Cook).........................3.0 Cortland (De Kalb)............................3.0 Joliet Lock/dam (Will)........................3.0 Romeoville (Will).............................3.0 Capron (Boone)................................2.8 Roscoe 2ESE (Winnebago).......................2.8 Roscoe 2se (Winnebago)........................2.8 Downers Grove 0.4NNE (Du Page)................2.7 Mundelein (Lake)..............................2.6 Chicago 6ESE (Cook)...........................2.5 Oak Park 2S (Cook)............................2.5 Aurora 4SE (Du Page)..........................2.5 St. Charles 6NW (Kane)........................2.5 Dixon 2SW (Lee)...............................2.5 Lake Zurich (Lake)............................2.5 Elgin (Kane)..................................2.4 Genoa (De Kalb)...............................2.4 Mundelein 2WNW (Lake).........................2.4 Plainfield 2SSE (Will)........................2.4 Ashton (Lee)..................................2.3 Geneva 1SSW (Kane)............................2.2 Ohare (Cook)..................................2.2 Rockford (Winnebago)..........................2.2 Hebron (McHenry)..............................2.1 Dwight (Livingston)...........................2.0 Elk Grove Village 2WSW (Cook).................2.0 Somonauk 2NE (De Kalb)........................2.0 Batavia 2WNW (Kane)...........................2.0 North Aurora 2NE (Kane).......................2.0 New Lenox 2SE (Will)..........................2.0 Coal City 4NNW (Grundy).......................1.9 Midway Coop (Cook)............................1.9 Lisle (Du Page)...............................1.8 Joliet 2n (Will)..............................1.8 Plainfield (Will).............................1.7 Elburn (Kane).................................1.5 Burr Ridge 2SW (Du Page)......................1.5 Bonfield 4WSW (Kankakee)......................1.5 Elburn (Kane).................................1.5 St Anne (Kankakee)............................1.5 Palos Park 1SW (Cook).........................1.4 Peotone (Will)................................1.4 Bourbonnais (Kankakee)........................1.3 Chicago Ridge (Cook)..........................1.3 Park Forest 1SW (Cook)........................1.3 Ottawa (La Salle).............................1.3 Chatsworth (Livingston).......................1.0 Streator 4ENE (La Salle)......................1.0 Wilmington 3SE (Will).........................1.0 Marseilles (La Salle).........................1.0 Watseka 6.9WNW (Iroquois).....................0.5 Paxton (Ford)...............................TRACE Rochelle (Ogle).............................TRACE Northwest Indiana Snow Location (County): fall(inches) Porter 1S (Porter)............................9.7 Portage 1ESE (Porter).........................9.0 Valparaiso 6WSW (Porter)......................5.4 (w9mal)Merrillville 2NNW (Lake)...............3.5 Valparaiso 4SW (Porter).......................3.2 (w9opr)Wheatfield 1ENE (Jasper)...............3.0 Crown Point (Lake)............................2.5 Morocco (Newton)..............................2.0 De Motte 6S (Jasper)..........................1.0 De Motte 1NNW (Jasper)........................1.0 Remington (Jasper)............................0.5 Rensselaer (Jasper)...........................0.5 $$
Storm Reports
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
1115 PM CST SUN DEC 18 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0200 PM HEAVY SNOW OGDEN DUNES 41.62N 87.19W
12/18/2016 E8.5 INCH PORTER IN PUBLIC
STORM TOTAL. SOCIAL MEDIA.
0200 PM HEAVY SNOW HOBART 41.53N 87.27W
12/18/2016 E7.0 INCH LAKE IN PUBLIC
STORM TOTAL. SOCIAL MEDIA.
0200 PM HEAVY SNOW SOUTH HAVEN 41.54N 87.13W
12/18/2016 E7.0 INCH PORTER IN PUBLIC
STORM TOTAL. DRIFTS IN OPEN AREAS UP TO 3 FEET. SOCIAL
MEDIA.
1150 AM SNOW 5 E CHESTERTON 41.60N 86.96W
12/18/2016 E8.0 INCH PORTER IN PUBLIC
TOTAL. 14 INCH SNOW DEPTH. LOTS OF DRIFTING. REPORT FROM
BURDICK IN. RELAYED FROM NORTHERN INDIANA NWS OFFICE.
1047 AM HEAVY SNOW PORTAGE 41.59N 87.18W
12/18/2016 E8.5 INCH PORTER IN TRAINED SPOTTER
TOTAL.
0800 AM SNOW 3 NE ROSCOE 42.45N 88.97W
12/18/2016 M2.5 INCH WINNEBAGO IL TRAINED SPOTTER
TOTAL SINCE FRIDAY OF 5.0 INCHES.
0800 AM SNOW STREAMWOOD 42.02N 88.17W
12/18/2016 M3.0 INCH COOK IL PUBLIC
0800 AM SNOW GURNEE 42.38N 87.94W
12/18/2016 M2.8 INCH LAKE IL BROADCAST MEDIA
TOTAL SINCE FRIDAY OF 5.8 INCHES.
0800 AM SNOW 3 WSW BOURBONNAIS 41.15N 87.94W
12/18/2016 M2.0 INCH KANKAKEE IL COCORAHS
STORM TOTAL
0600 AM SNOW CROWN POINT 41.42N 87.36W
12/18/2016 E6.5 INCH LAKE IN PUBLIC
0600 AM SNOW ROMEOVILLE 41.65N 88.09W
12/18/2016 M3.0 INCH WILL IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS
MEASURED AT THE NWS OFFICE. THIS IS THE SNOWFALL FROM
SATURDAY NIGHT. LIQUID EQUIVALENT OF 0.12. TOTAL SNOWFALL
SINCE FRIDAY OF 3.1 INCHES.
0600 AM SNOW ROCKFORD AIRPORT 42.20N 89.10W
12/18/2016 M2.2 INCH WINNEBAGO IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS
THIS IS THE SNOWFALL FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
LIQUID EQUIVALENT OF 0.14. TOTAL SNOWFALL SINCE FRIDAY OF
3.7 INCHES.
0600 AM SNOW OHARE AIRPORT 41.98N 87.90W
12/18/2016 M2.2 INCH COOK IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS
THIS IS THE SNOWFALL FROM SATURDAY NIGHT. LIQUID
EQUIVALENT OF 0.15. TOTAL SNOWFALL SINCE FRIDAY OF 3.4
INCHES.
0600 AM SNOW 3 SW MIDWAY AIRPORT 41.75N 87.79W
12/18/2016 M2.0 INCH COOK IL CO-OP OBSERVER
THIS IS THE SNOWFALL FROM SATURDAY NIGHT. LIQUID
EQUIVALENT OF 0.15. TOTAL SNOWFALL SINCE FRIDAY OF 2.4
INCHES.
0600 AM SNOW ENE PEOTONE 41.33N 87.79W
12/18/2016 M1.9 INCH WILL IL COCORAHS
TWO DAY SNOW TOTAL. SNOW IS BLOWING AND DRIFTING.
0600 AM SNOW OAK LAWN 41.72N 87.75W
12/18/2016 E2.0 INCH COOK IL PUBLIC
0300 AM SNOW SOMONAUK 41.63N 88.68W
12/18/2016 M4.0 INCH DE KALB IL PUBLIC
TOTAL MAINLY FROM SATURDAY NIGHT.
0230 AM NON-TSTM WND GST 3 NNW BURNS HARBOR 41.65N 87.15W
12/18/2016 M53.00 MPH PORTER IN BUOY
OCCASIONAL 40 PLUS MPH GUSTS BETWEEN 100 AM AND 230 AM
ASSOCIATED WITH LAKE EFFECT SNOW SQUALLS.
1200 AM SNOW 1 S CHICAGO 41.87N 87.63W
12/18/2016 M1.9 INCH COOK IL NWS EMPLOYEE
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Radar
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| NWS Chicago Doppler Radar reflectivity loop from midnight through 4 a.m. CST of an intense lake effect snow band into far northwest Indiana. The individual circulation structures are mesovortices that had generated on sharp convergent winds and lake-induced instability. This helped to focus and intensify snowfall as well as winds into far northwest Indiana. Along the shore, a gust in excess of 50 mph was observed. The intense snowfall rates (likely over 2" per hour) combined with the high winds created temporary whiteout conditions. |
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| Port of Indiana, lakefront area, during heavy snow and strong winds. Photo courtesy of Jon Gentry |
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