Preliminary Snow Totals Map

Here is a graphical map of what has fallen so far. More will be added to most of these areas throughout the day as we get wrap around snow from that low. So far it looks like we were right on target with the snow forecast. You can really see that banding that set up just as the models predicted that it would.

Mon 10:30am

Here is an updated radar for 10:15am. Still quite a bit of snow out there. The snow over Dubois County is moving to the south because of where the H5 low is situated. See the map below for details. I'll be posting a snow totals graphic later this morning.

Mon 10am

Just measured 7" of snow in my backyard! That's up from 5" last hour. The snow is really coming down hard here as you can see by the radar at left. The green bands are the areas of snow with a high rate per hour.

Check out these pictures from my backyard! Let it snow!!! You can really see how fast the wind is whipping around by looking at the flag on my house.

Mon 9:30am Snow Totals

Snow totals are really ramping up over the area. Radar still showing heavy snow over much of Southern Indiana. A nice dry slot is moving into the area from Illinois and that might give us a break for a while, but expect more snow to develop this afternoon as we get wrap around snow from that upper level H5 low now situated just over the Ft. Knox area. Just as I had mentioned earlier, the low is tracking right along the Ohio River and that brings the heaviest snow totals just to the north of the low.

Here are some very preliminary reports I have found so far from the NWS and other blogs:

• Huntingburg (from me) 5"
• Taswell, IN 6.5"
• Mt. Carmel 7.5"
• Evansville 4.2"
• Newburgh 5"
• Rockport 6.1"
• Boonville area 7"
• Petersburg 4.1"
• Henderson 1.8"
• Princeton 5"
• Jeffersonville 4"
• French Lick 5"
• Scottsburg 6"
• New Albany 4.5"
• Salem 4.5"

I'll update more as the morning goes on.

Sun 8pm

Check out this radar image from 7:3opm Sunday evening. I've placed two Lows on the map as a visual. The first batch of snow associated with the surface low and cold front is now moving east out of Southern Indiana and into Eastern Kentucky. But check out the snow beginning to churn in Illinois. This is caused by the H5 low now situated over Missouri. This will be our major weather maker overnight. Expect heavy bands of snow at times as this low moves along and just south of the Ohio River overnight.


To get an idea of how deep this snow is, check out the Enhanced IR to the left. The coloring indicates cold cloud temperatures and shows the depth of this system moving in overnight. Compare that with the snow flurries over Kentucky from the surface low and you can see just how much the situation is going to change in our area in just a few hours.

I'll post an update again tomorrow morning. Be safe!

Sun 2:20pm

The NAM is now consistently running with a high precip zone along the Ohio River. Below at left notice the NAM from 00z last night with the NAM from 12z to the right. The dark blue band is a band between 0.5" and 0.74" of liquid precip. With snow ratios of nearly 20:1 coming with most of this later tonight, expect lots of accumulation in our area.



Notice also how the GFS is now back into agreement with the NAM. 00z from last night below left and 12z to the right. This is setting up to be a rock solid system, with probably the most snow we've seen around here all year.








The newest QPF from the HPC has downed the totals some from last night, but again 0.56 near Huntingburg isn't bad at all if you love snow! Everything seems to be agreeing with a narrow band of locally high precip in our area. This could be the one we've been waiting for!! I'll update again later tonight.

Update Sun 2pm

Winter Storm Warning now in effect for the Huntingburg area and most of the neighboring counties around the Ohio River. The storm really looks to be taking shape. At left is the visible satellite from 1:30pm today. You can see the H5 (500mb) upper level low spinning over the corner of Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas. The latest NAM places the track of this low right over the Ohio River as it passes through in the next 24 hours. This will put us in a prime location for a lot of snow.

At left is the 500mb analysis for 1pm today. You can see how the H5 low is closed and with intense vorticity. As this tracks right into our area overnight and through the day tomorrow, expect heavy bands of snow to set up in front of it.

Still looking like a solid 5-7+" for counties along the Ohio River is highly probable by the time this is all said and done Tuesday morning. Because of this, the HPC has continued to keep us in the 70% risk for at least 4" of snow.

Again for your reference: blue = 10%, green = 40% and red = 70%. Images below: left is prob of 4", center prob of 8" and far right prob of 12".