Not really much of a storm but figured I could get a thread going. Getting a decent amount of lake effect snow in SE Wisconsin this morning, calling for 3-6 inches of the fluffy stuff. I guess the roads are pretty bad. Living only a few miles from work has its benefits.

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We ended up getting a dud after them scaring everyone about the KC storm coming to us. Couple inches meh.

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Southern Illinois has some issues. Lotta ice to go with the snow.

Talking at least 6 inches and as much as 9 inches of snow near WI / IL border tomorrow. Been a strange year with snow, I believe in the Milwaukee area they are about 20” below regular precipitation numbers.

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This has been the least amount of snow to date in Chicago since 1944.

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New Orleans and part of NW Florida have had more snow than Chicago so far.

NW Arkansas as well

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Just go the knee scoped and off for a week, it can snow as much as it wants.

Downgraded to a winter weather advisory, three inches max. More fear mongering from Big Grocery.

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I closed the office at noon today, just to be nice. My secretary responded with an email that if the snow shuts down the trains she will not be in tomorrow. I'm like, the snow has never shut down the trains and we will be open. She's trying to lay the ground that she wants to take the day off tomorrow and it not to be considered a personal day.

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Did you include , "and you will get your lazy ass to work"

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Seems unlikely but I did get stuck at O’Hare once when sleet and ice shut down the terminal train. Had to take a bus from the international terminal to T1.

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Happens in the UK if it snows literally at all whatsoever. Got stuck at Stansted, no trains back. Probably 3/4” of snow on the ground. Joke country.

Critics are calling it "the gayest snow ever."

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Not up North, she ain’t letting up.

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Yup more sledding this weekend. At this rate, we may open up in Adams....been hanging out in St Germain of late.

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Every single potential big storm last year eventually came in as nothing but a wet fart, but this one seemed to spook people to levels I haven't seen in a while. At least in the west burbs, people are furious about what a big deal this was made out to be. Every school district around me pivoted to "e-"learning"", which in turn forced parents to call in from work, which in turn caused a worker shortage for a day in workplaces that were already running a skeleton crew. I understand prediction models are complex and finicky, and you really only get an accurate prediction within 12 hours or so, but even those failed. What was a potential 13 inches of snow on Sunday became 6-8 on Monday, then 4-6 yesterday, then 3-4 at midnight, then 1-3 by 9 AM, then by noon it was >1. Television was a mistake.

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correct. I been tellin' people this the last few days. They always over-exaggerate what will happen.

When I was a kid, forecasts were accurate. If they said u were getting a foot of snow, u got a foot of fuckin snow.

Now with better technology, our forecasts are worse? It's all horseshit.

It was a decent amount of snow that went on for 8 hours. No complaints on the forecast.

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It seems like the days of watching the scroll at the bottom of the TV, or getting the 6am "wake-up" call from the district, are gone.

The people that complain about classes being remote yesterday are the same people that complain when the district decides at 5:30am to close school for the day. So the district goes remote at 4pm the day before, to try and give people time to plan. But then the storm fizzles/shifts/etc. in the 16 hours between then and classes the next day.....

I didn't get a ruler out to check how much we got but my guess is close to 6". Thank god it was fluffy.

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Closer to 3" by me but between the powdery consistency and the clear blue sky it was the prettiest snow I've seen in ages. It's glistening out there. It should be making the little shiny noises in cartoons.

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I distinctly remember when we got snow like this in early December and it never even registered as slightly newsworthy. Now we get our once yearly 6” and people act amazed. Time go to north boys, this will be Memphis’ climate by the end of the decade.

Remember the winter of 2014-15? Snow, below zero, snow, below zero, snow, below zero. It fucking snowed in the middle of May.

13-14 was the one you're describing but I don't think 14-15 was much better. I don't think a winter has truly kicked our ass since 2019.

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Most of you guys aren't old enough to remember the 1980's winters:

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You're right. I think it was the coldest winter on record and like 3rd in snow. It truly was retarded.

Right, and there wasn't any one whopper of a snowstorm, either. It was just three-inch snowfalls night after night after night until the snow was halfway up the side of your house.

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I believe it snowed about as much as yesterday literally every single day in February that year. Maybe like two exceptions. What we’ve lost.