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We appreciate all your hard work.   It had to be a very long 2 days for you and the team.  

I appreciate all of your hard work along with the rest of the team.  IT is not your fault.  You did your best.  I look forward to waking up tomorrow to see what we end up with.  ANd by far, you are always the most accurate!

Gary it's the LRC the pattern has been for the north this year,we all know the south had it last year so it's the north turn this year I'm sorry to all the disappointed south metro snow lovers,I wish I could share some from leavenworth.

Dang this is disappointing.. i was hoping for a good snow for once in olathe... now we will probably get a dusting.....back to school...

I thank you for all of your effort and hard work. I am still hoping for 5 inches in Parkville. It isnt your fault, you gave it your all.

just to update on the current blog...

at 2253, 1.3" at the fort.

murph

I think you did a great job with what you had, Gary.  I know you're usually pretty hard on yourself but don't be!  It's seriously snowing in Olathe!

So are you calling for less now than you did at 10 PM?

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No, I still think 3-6 inches, but areas southeast of Kansas City, it will be a bit less.

Gary

What about East on I-70 in Blue Springs?  

Is this going to move eastward?  

My guess for Olathe=3.5 in.

pvt I agree with your amount really coming down hard in leavenworth,wow what a snow season we have had up here I am sorry Brent.

Gary - what I love about you is that you are passionate about what you do!  You do what you can with information that changes minute by minute...  I have watched you since I moved here from Chicago - and I will continue to watch you!  I should be in bed - but I am still an anxious teacher waiting for a snow day in Blue Springs :)

Gary, You have done a great job keeping all of us updated throughout the day on the blog and on TV. Thank you. You can't control the weather, so it is only fair if we all give the weather team a break. They have worked so hard today tracking this storm.

You are too hard on yourself...because you all are perfectionist's (?). Was this more of a rain maker than you thought?? Did you expect so many people to get over one inch of rain? I recieved 1.4 inches. At least I got something..LOL. Oh well this is not my year for snow and I know it. I can share the wealth I guess. ;o)
You all getting it....have a great sledding day and day off of school.
Monica
Pleasanton KS

Mr. Lezak, could you please tell me what u expect for Columbia? Will we see even an inch?

Gardner prediction - 5.5" and school canceled at 5:59 a.m.

Sonic...where in Chicago are you from?  We lived in the suburbs for a while.

Gary,
You and your team are

I think Gary and the team did an awesome job keeping us updated as "new data" came in.  It's still weather, constantly changing!

Gary when is the snow supposed to taper off?

Gary,
You and your team are AWESOME!!!  Weather is weather.  Unless you are mother nature, you may not get the exact.  That's ok though.  You all have been the most accurate and I will NEVER plan my day around any other forcast.  Keep up the good work and ignore the ones that.....well you know.  Have a great evening!!!

Okay back to what's happening...it's snowing and blowing hard in Piper!

Barbara - I grew up outside of Aurora - I put Gary right up there with Tom Skilling  - a legend!

Just hit the 1 inch mark in Parkville!

Well, I was going to give up pop for Lent - but it looks like I am going to have to give up snow :(

Gary,

I think you all did an awesome job on this storm. It's never easy with something like this. Mother Nature is always mixing in her own twist on things. Keep up the good work!!!!

Looking at the radar, it would appear that for you folks south of KC and east of 35, what you see on the ground right now is all you are going to get out of this storm. Why in the world is every snow storm hitting the exact same spot every time (i.e. north and west of KC)? Can not ONE of these upper level lows track a bit further south and get KC in a nice snow for once?

Gary,
I hung on every word today and I can only follow your forcast online out here in Ozawkie.  I wouldn't trade your forcast for anyone's... not even out here in Topeka viewing area.  I'm not sure if I'm considered part of your North or West area... probably more like LONG DISTANCE NW area, but I still watch and believe in you!!

Right now we have pretty heavy blowing snow since about 9.  From 630 on it was freezing rain/pellets.  We have about 1.5" of thick wet snow now and the big flakes keep coming.  Mocha can't wait to get out in the snow and leave her paw prints in the snow!

Sonic...we lived in Palatine and Buffalo Grove.  My dad swears by Tom Skilling and whenever I mention Gary he'll ask me if he's as good as Skilling and I always say yes!  

Gary,
You never hyped the storm on TV.  You were going with what you thought was going to happen.  

As a person who resides in the south part of the metro, I feel the frustration that our northern viewers went thru last year.  It's not our time.  Our time will come again.

For those viewers who are angry, don't take your anger out on the team.  The team did the best that it could.  Mother Nature has the ultimate decision on what happens with the weather.

Let's think about the people who have been impacted by the severe weather today and tonight.

It is snowing with a little bit of sleet.  It's a dusting so far.

On that note, I am out of here for the night.  Have a good night, everyone! :)

Kristi

Sleet is changing to big fat flakes in Blue Springs. I'm turning in for the night. Hoping everyone has big numbers! Don't forget to put a spoon under your pillow!

Now this is what the dragon likes to hear: logic and reason, something lacking from the blog every time the word "snow" is mentioned. While the Dragon thinks Gary should've (not "should of") stuck to his guns (i.e. his "original" forecast) instead of being led astray by the snowlust of the blog commenters, still, it is an inexact science, even with all the models, gizmos and doo-dads they have available.

Right, Scott?    ;-)

Gary, You are amazing.  ITS snowing ! Lets enjoy it, we could still have a twist you know! LOL.  You are like most of us here... you wanted 10" too.  You never know, its not over until its over.  Your the best there is.  That's all there is to it.  I still am watching the trends, I am fascinated by it.  I still see us getting a nice snow out of this!  Any snow is nice!  We will all have some serious circles under the eyes tomorrow!  

I'm updating my Snowfall Forecast right now! It will be on my blog in a few minutes

Goodnight Kristi!

as far as I'm concerned Gary made it quit raining during my mothers funeral this afternoon, with an assist from kristi.  but now I hope it snows like crazy.

Gary and team -

I have been watching the newscasts and lurking the past few days, and I remember what Brett said this morning "Many of you may go to bed tonight frustrated with no snow, but will wake up in the morning to the white stuff..."  

It seems to me there was no hype, and that you hit this one 90% accurately.  Co-workers were telling me the other forecasts from around town, and once again you hit this one for me and left them all saying "guess we shoulda watched Gary"

You hit it for me and members of my family in town from Iowa.  We're all thankful and glad that they aren't stuck on I-29 headed home!!!

sonic which school in blues springs?  I live in liberty but work at one of the schools in blue springs as well

It's weird to look at the KDOT site and 90% of the state of Kansas is partly to completely snowpacked on the roads.  Can you guess where the other 10% that doesn't have bad roads is at?  Yeah that would be extreme eastern Kansas.  Of course that will probably change overnight.  I guess I'll still hold out hope for 4" in JoCo south of 435.

Good luck on the storm Kansas Citians.  I live in Breckenridge Colorado but spent 6 months of 2007 in your wonderful City on business.  I've become hooked on the NBC weather team's blog!  

As I sit here in Breckenridge typing this...we are at 2 degrees below zero with 67 inches of snow on the ground....so I can't imagine anyone begging for more snow  :)  

Your all's passion for the weather is awesome...I can't help but spend a few minutes a day reading Gary's blog.  

For those nay sayers...cut the team some slack....they could cut the blog off all together and then where would absent K.C. fans go to read all the fun??  

Take care everyone, hope you good a blizzard and if not....I'll live vicariously through you during the upcoming severe season.  The scariest night of my life was last spring during one of your terrible thunderstorms...we don't get tornadoes here and I don't know how you live thru that every spring!

Johnny P - from the frozen tundra of Summit County Colorado

Last posting of the night, 1 inch here in Parkville. I hope you all get your fair share of snow, here up north I am still hoping for 5-6 inches. Goodnight All!

awww Gary, you are still the most accurate.  I don't think you hyped anything, you are just excited about weather.  Tomorrow in the morning I think you will have predicted the most accurately.  

Johnny, you're a lucky, lucky man. Enjoy the view.

Dougbce, I am very sorry for your loss.  It's amazing the way the powers cooperate when we least expect them to as in the case of your needs today...

Kristi - I lurk often and rarely post, but I have to admit your posts ALWAYS make me smile and your thoughts for those in the south ring so true today.  We should all stop and think about the difference between having a snow day or having to pick up the pieces of your life because a tornado has hit.  

Thanks again to the NBC Weather team, and those of you on the blog who give us all cause to pause.

Snowing like crazy here in KCK at 130th and State Avenue.

It's looks like Olathe might already have 1/2"-1" of Snow,and Sleet.

My husband's company just did a big energy project at the Liberty schools!  He said that the schools are very nice.

Gary, Jeremy, Brett, and Jeff:

Good late evening to all of you!! Snowing in Lawrence with a temp. of 27 and some pretty gusty winds-by the looks of it, we have close to an inch so far and looking at the radar we still have some decent snow to go. I'm still kind of watching that band of precip. that is just south of Dodge City-it is sitting there rotating around. Well, it is for sure a wintery night here in Lawrence!!! If this was the winter of 2005-2006 I would be bouncing off the walls-ok, I am any way-there is snow on the ground!!!

Hang in there-all of you are excellent at what you do. You saw the data at 6:00 P.M. and went for it-I respect that!!!! Your forecasts have always and will always speak for themelves!! I hope you can get some sleep tonight-these past two storms have really taken the cake so to speak and have been frustrating beyond words-so close.....However, this current event is not over and it is never over until the sun comes out!!

I have always said this and will say it again: in the words of my students you guys are TIGHT!!!!!

Have a great night

Bill in Lawrence

P.S.: Some day we are going to get the classic 4 corners low that tracks just perfect with cold air in place-it will happen again!!!!!

thanks NLG, I'm in the northland with you.  I'm in Riverside.  Kristi is a legend here I think...lol

had some awesome rounds of sleet in Riverside.  I'm sure I got a little skating rink outside.

Well I have to say this is turning out to be "our" LRC year in terms of snow here in St. Joe, yup it is coming down out there, today brought such an array of weather events, from thunder sleet and snow storms, to what I would call "slizzle" for most of the afternoon/evening( slizzle= drizzle and drizzle pellets(small sleet)) to now heavy snow with it blowing pretty good. I just also want to say that I'm sorry to hear about the death that this same system has caused to our south and east with the severe weather.

Not sure of that this winter PoofDragon....she's been a bitter one.  My car read -24 the other morning and I was skiing at the top of Imperial Superchair and the ski hut digital thermometer said it was 51 below zero wind chill!!  I'll take a sunny 70 degree day in K.C. over that!  

Hope you can get out here and enjoy some powder this winter....it's the best I've seen and I moved here after college in 1997!  I keep looking at the radar for you all....it sure looks like it's going to dump on you??

Here in SW Topeka we have had heavy snow for the last 90 minutes or so.  Looks like we are at about 2 inches now.  The temp is 23.0F at my house.  The radar looks like the dry slot in SE KS has a chance to rotate up here and take us out of the snow later. It's kind of hard to tell.

My son played basketball earlier tonight in Overland Park so we had to make the trip down I-70 and back.  We ran into some pretty heavy snow on the way back between 8PM-9PM just west of KC to about Lawrence. Glad we made it back OK!  Mike

gary , go get some sleep ,check on the dogs ,you did great by forecasting this ,it takes alot of guts to go on the air wheres as we just forecast among ourselves

This storm is really ticking me off

Can I get just a little East movement please?

Coloradoguy: Yep, we're wild and wooly in the Spring! I love snow, but I'm more of a severe weather gal...have friends from California who freak when they come to visit and a good, hefty T storm blows up....they freak out! 67 inches of snow...wow! Good skiing! I'm to bed...still snowing to beat the band here in Piper.

I have strange feeling that his storm could become stronger and maybe bring us higher snow totals.  The fight is not over yet.  I could be wrong but it may happen.  If not, as long as we get more snow, I am happy.  And if not, oh well.

Coloradogy if we get a 70 degree day this time year it usually means nasty weather right behind.  I hate to say it, but just ask Memphis and Arkansas tonight what the 70 degree with the cold coming in behind it does.

p.s.  my cat snores loud

yea definitely Nick totally devastation down in the mid south tonight looks like nashville is going to get another round of storms  in an hour or so if anyone is interested you can watch live coverage from nashville at wsmv.com it's an nbc affiliate.

Hey Colorado,
I have actually been to Breckenrigde.  It is absolutely BEAUTIFUL there.  My parents have time share out there.  Hopefully I can get there again.  I really don't think I would like to see as much snow as you have there, though.  I am still trying to get used to it.  I have been in Louisiana for the past 6 years...so this is almost wierd for me to see snow again.  Have a good night.

"Mom" - TUE - you?

Okay guys...it's time for me to go to bed.  I hope everyone wakes up to the snow totals they want!  And Gary...you need to find time for some sleep tonight too!

do you think this storm could still turn and move east instead of north east?

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I've been seeing it on the news tonight dougbce....the tornadoes down south even made our local news.  It's terrible.  I don't know how you all live with that fear every day in the spring.....yes we get lots of snow....but it rarely is life threatening....our main concern is the tourists in rented SUV's thinking they are invincible on an icy road  :)

PS.  Funny afterthought from you.....my Basset Hound is laying here snoring like a banshee

Well I'm hoping to wake up to a surprise in the morning, that being 6" of snow in southern JoCo.

Hey bewild79....I would imagine it's tough to leave the sunny south and deal with winter....I'll bet you are counting the days until spring!  If you aren't a big snow fan...I'd wait until summer to come check out Breckenridge again....I think you'd hate it right now  :)

I know we are still dealing with this storm but for those that are interested the latest GFS has a storm around valentine's day or the day after could be rain then snow on the backside but that is more than a week away things can change and they will.

johnk,I been following Gary's LRC this year theres a slight chance it will but it appears the same areas all winter are getting it again :(

Andrew,
That is quite intresting...that is still showing platte county in the heaviest bands.  what do you think?

I think this storm has the potential to dump the most snow this season for Marceline...Personally i am hoping for enough to cancel school for tomorrow..lol...I am predicting 4-6"...always hoping for more though....You guys have done a good job tracking this storm...Keep up the good work!!  :)

still enough snow for no school in olathe for those wondering

Andrew as far I'm concerned I'm in that 6" band....bring on the snow....

Coloradoguy I think shes in here with me because she was snoring too loud in bed with the gf and got kicked off.  

andrew,nice forecast I agree but 12 inches may be a little high you never know tho it could happen maybe with some thunder involved might be some big drifts tonight.that wind is blowing good.

Well, after all my watching and reading for the day I am disappointed about the snow. I love to watch it fall, and it looks like I won't be watching much of anything tonight. Not to mention bedtime has arriced. Guess I'll just have to wati and see what I wake up to in the morning. It was a nice day chatting about the big storm we didn't get. None the less I still only watch and read Gary and the team and that's what my household will continue to do. See you in the monring and let you know what I get.


Oh Illinois people, I'm fro Elk Grove Village, and I love Breckenridge, CO. I have been there lied in CO for quite awhile and loved it there. I went to Beaver run resort and thought it was the best place ver. I need to go there again someday.
Good night all

Colorado,
Yea..I kinda like the snow..I just don't like to drive in it.  Ok I don't know how to drive in it.  It has been a tough transition from down there to up here.  This winter was the first time my 4 year old got to see snow though.  It was great seeing his face.  During the spring, I can't run from tornados like I could hurricanes.  That scares me..just gotta get used to it again...

I think I need to start watching mike thompson

Anything is possible with this storm still!! (Controller)

Andrew,just looking at some radar images the storm looks to be slowing down so your totals up north may be perfect sorry to have put your forecast down but it looks good actually.

I hope I got a good measurement here at 130th and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. I have recorded exactly 1 inch as of 11:32 PM.

Bryan

Katpa,
Oh yee of little faith.  One prediction off and you lose faith...did you have it in the first place..

Snowing hard in Greenwood MO.  Hope it keeps up.

Thanks for working so hard to keep us updated! I love the constant updates! :) I've been watching radar all night.

The golden rule of forecasting, Gary is more right than the other guys and if we always knew which way the wind would blow long before the first gust, sailing wouldn't be a sport and ships would never have been motorized.  Thanks Big G.  You guys are still a-ok in my book.  It's white outside and I'm happy.  Now you need to make it 70 again like yesterday.  

-Ken

snowing its a#@ off 169 and 68th st.

Looking at the radar, Storm Lab Supercharged (interwarn.com ) Plus I pay to get Storm Reports on the radar, I already see that Buchanan,MO has already gotten 6-7" and it seems to be that the heaviest is just north and west of KC. I also get Lightning Data and I see there is 1  Lighting stroke around Lees Summit.

Gary:

Ignore those that criticize your efforts at providing the best, most up-to-date forecast and remind them of what John M. Keynes said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

Lrcfan,

Thanks! I continue to learn from Gary!

new blog

wow andrew thanks for the info!!!!!

Should be grading papers, should be completing homework for my masters classes, should be in bed....yet....I'm still up, playing bookworm, bejeweled, checking the conditions outside every 15 minutes or so....

I am just as bad as the kiddos I teach-still hoping for that 4-5:30 am phone call telling me school is cancelled..still possible...keep the faith!!  

PS. Gary & Team-you are the most accurate...bottom line! Thanks for the efforts!

Your Welcome, Storm Lab is great!

New Blog! Thanks Kelly!

After a bout of moderate snowfall we got a heavy dose of sleet for about 10-15 minutes, followed immediately by HEAVY snow. I went outside and listened for thunder...that's how hard it was snowing a little while ago. Winds have died down considerably but are still gusty. Looks to be over an inch already and piling up fast.

Gary's passion for weather is very contagious, and I could see his frustration with having to move the "bullseye" back two counties north on the 10 o'clock news cast. He desperately wants to change public perception about weather forcasters and has stated so here in the blog. I just don't know why so many of the bloggers here make some of the comments about the forcast being off a bit. Gary and his team are still the most accurate, most passionate, and the least Hype-driven forcasters in the midwest, and perhaps the whole country. Whether I get 3-6 or 6-10 tonight really doesn't matter to me...what matters is having this kind of access to someone who could very possibly go down in history as the person who figured out a more accurate and predictable way to forcast weather. Let's give credit where credit is due and stop the childish behavior when a forcast isn't what you hoped for.

Gary...you are awesome and you have built a team that other stations around the country can only dream about. keep up the great work!

Erik in Smithville