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Blue Springs Snow????

Gary,

do you plan no having a Snowfall map tonight? if so how much you think we will get?

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We may do one Thursday for Friday. We are doing it a different way tonight.

Gary

Eclipse is great, viewing made easier from the warmth of a kitchen window even.

YAY!!!! great detailed forecast!!!! its amazing... thx gary... is there any chance for some snow on sundy?

Yes indeed I'm watching.

Perfection!

pretty moon...

In belton when i try seeing it there are a couple of clouds... Is it supposed to get clear anytime soon?

Stunning performance made possible by the Moon, Earth, and Sun tonight!

Doesn't sound like a snow day coming...

whoa 2 inches....thats like the biggest snowstorm this year!

dpatel I am in south Lee's Summit and I can see it fine.
It looks great.

  Good Evening Gary, you say 1-2" by Friday Evening is that the whole storm Tomorrow thur Friday or just Friday? Also the storm that forms Thur 9pm - 3pm is it going to snow that whole time or just when ever it forms? Thanks from Downtown KC

that moon looks spectacular... it almost looks like its turning a bit orange/reddish...

is there any chance of Lee's Summit seeing anything from this first band coming in between 3AM and 9AM?

now its cleared up... Also do u think that the south will get atleast 2 inches of snow?

I have been watching the eclipse from both inside and outside..  Very cool! :)

Kristi

You mention Friday's northern accumulation but not what accumulations we'll see in the south on Thusday. any idea?

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Dwight,

I think around 1" of a mixture down south each day.

Gary

can anyone post pictures of the moon

I'm in Belton also and the moon is beautiful! The clouds around it are enhancing it, not covering up the eclipse.

Seeing the moon tinged red and orange makes me think back to our ancestors and what THEY must have thought seeing an event like this . . . I had a blast sharing this with the kids tonight . . .

It just does not get any better watching that big orange up in the sky from the comfort of my hot tub!
Really beautiful...

mooky,
I tried to take pictures and they did not turn out very good. Gary said if you watch at 10:00 he will have some.

 Hello Gary: 1-2" by Friday is that for Thurs and Friday or just Friday

Eclipse is beautiful.  CNN is showing it live on their live feed.

I have a couple of ok shots of the eclipse. How do I upload them?

Mike in LS

I've got a ton of pictures of it, kind of a time lapse starting from about 720 and going about every 15 minutes and like you mdg when it got down to the final stages my camera just did not like that image along with trying to stand still while it's 10 degrees outside.  Maybe my camera was trying to tell me it's cold and wants to go back inside.

I have some awsome pics of the eclipse. I took them from beginning to end!
goodnight everyone!

Doug,
You will have to post your pictures. :)

I didn't take any pictures..  I would have had to set up my tripod and it just too cold to stand outside for any length of time.

Kristi

Why is it that stronger, more impressive, hyped storms can fizzle, split, get "dry slotted, etc. but weaker storms don't seem to suprise us by somehow waking up, grow, gain strength, and do more than what is expected? Can we just get 3" to cover up the grass for crying in a bucket!!! Cold air is in place and now we can't get the moisture, but just let the temperature get up to 33 or 34 and then we get so much rain we end up with a stinking quagmire. Hey, do you hear that? It's me screaming at the sky..."why?" I don't make this up. I really get that mad. Is there anything that can get this radar to light up like a christmas tree? I'm almost to the point of taking out the hose and just spraying my trees, lawn, and car to ice things up just to get a winter wonderland look going.

Given the extremely cold temps over the past few days, I'm thinking that even the slightest bit of sleet or snow could cause very hazardous driving conditions.  

Gary--I'm also wondering, like Husky07, whether Lee's Summit will see anything "slick" between the 3am-9am window...or will it be later?  Just wondering what the schoolbus and rush hour traffic can expect in the LS area...could be hitting at a critical time???

dpollard--I'm right there with you.  I could go for an ice storm as well..even if it has to be "man-made"!

This crazy storm is supposed to hit us in waves. As long as the waves are like tsunamis that would be fine by me!!

So Gary, ...for people who freak out about driving in bad weather (which isn't me, of course), is this a stay at home event?

Clouds have been obscuring the moon now for about 25 minutes in Adrian. :(

The Lunar eclipse was awsome to watch. The military hit that wayward spy satelite a little while ago from what i am hearing it was a success. Now if we could just get it to snow a lot it would be great.

Gary as always thanks for your dedication to us blog addicts and keeping us informed. Hopefully mother nature will be mad at you for not wearing the snow vest that she will dump on us just to make you look bad...LOL

Gary's on right now...says precip area is growing and moving up I-35 toward KC...says it might start as snow in a few hours...extensive forecast coming in 17 minutes!

wow new GFS has around 1 inch or more of QPF for down my way. I hope its right

Gary just said we're now looking at sleet tonight with freezing rain glaze through 3pm tomorrow...nothing major, but enough to possible cause travel problems...

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I didn't say freezing rain!  I said light snow or sleet in the morning then changing to freezing drizzle with a light glazing on top of some light snow or sleet that fell earlier.

Gary

So after watching Gary's forecast (did he REALLY say he was ready for spring???), is the precipitation supposed to be over by 3:00?  If that happens, then the 5:00 drive home may not be SO bad...????  Right??? :)

Starting to sound like Friday might be the day to stay home...

see perfect example of people hearing what they want to hear.

Gary, are travel problems expected around the Sedalia area tomorrow morning. I have to drive from Carrollton to Sedalia in the morning for school and just curious as to what is expected in that area. Thanks for all your hard work!!!!!

Gary, much more detail than usual supporting a LRC claim.  Better.

You know though..as I visualize your forecast, I see a very generic picture.  Let me explain.

The first part sounds like the leading edge of a frontal passage.  More to the north side..so, it would be a bit better banded and heavy.  As it would pass, you would then have the drytime..not necessarly dry slot, but the in between zone in most of these storms...then comes the back side...

Based on the storms this year, this is almost the norm.  So, for that and the longwave part of the LRC, you are spot on.  I think the timeframes are a bit vague with six hour windows...especially within 0-12 hrs of the precip starting, but ok...

I like the thought process described.  It makes a much more thoughtful and imaginative blog entry, and more educational and usable by the bloggers.

Good work.

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Scott,

Thanks and I could have even been more specific.  This storm is driving me a bit nuts already.  The biggest reason is that it is set up to just be a classic winter storm, but instead it is just a weak version of this year.  Maybe it will hold a surprise.  I doubt it.

Gary

Well what a winter day, first off is the cold air, man today was frigid, I don't think we made it much above ten out there today! east northeast breezes have been blowing all day long under clear skies. Another thing though that I must mention is the composition of the snow, it is rather hard and crunchy, and some areas, like under trees(where the snow had tried to melt during the event), on the sides of the streets, and in parking lots and driveways, the "snow" has become glacier like areas of ice, yes like a mini ice age here in st. Joe with mini glaciers!  Of course I did watch the lunar eclipse, pretty neat seeing the rust colored moon hanging in the sky, the only thing that kind of tainted it here was the fact that I noticed it was being obscured by what appeared to be low clouds, but I knew that we didn't have any of those, so when I went out side I saw that to our north and east something was on fire a few blocks away, you could even see a flickering orange glow, it turns out that it was someones home, I think that I heard that everyone was okay, which was a relief but it is still a horrible event and I hope that they recover quickly.
    Now to the future, yes it looks like a weak, but kind of long lasting storm event the NAM really shows the snow band on Friday setting up in the "favored" area, and even as it leaves the "set up" doesn't seem to totally die, right behind the Friday event the next vort tries to move in, now it does not look impressive but allow it time to shift a bit more and who knows, especially with the NAM which has the Saturday system a little closer to being something, and then after that the next system comes marching on in, man what an LRC this is shaping up to be.

It is sleeting heavily down here in La Cygne. Is is sooooo cold and yet the sleet is falling instead of snow. I hope it tapers off soon. Gotta go to bed and kinda hard to sleep with the steady tapping of ice pelleting the windows.

chfs327, no advisory, ehh??

Just kidding, but JoCo and surrounding areas and off to the northeast now under a Winter weather advisory.

the radar is really beginning to light up!

Winter Weather Advisory for south half of the metro area, includes JoCo and JaCo.

Kristi

yeah it is looks like a nice band of sleet is on the way to AC

OOPS includes WyCo KS and Clay County MO.

Kristi

We will not have ice storm as chfs has repeatedly predicted.

Kristi

im hoping for enough for no school tomorrow

nope no ice storm but it might be slick tomorrow and friday please be careful!!  at emporia right now they are reporting fr rain on their observation.

Fr Rain!?! At 17°! Ouch! That's going to make it icy fast.

it sure does I guess the nws got scared and saw this going further north and the advisory is the right thing to do since a little bit of this stuff could cause problems.

Yes, it will probably be slippery in the AM.  Be careful!

Kristi

Yes, with temps in the low teens..  It will get slick fast. :(  Be careful!

Kristi

flurries at the fort....radar looks good...maybe a dusting by the morning rushhour? maybe a little more...?

Heavy snow in Lenexa! Cool!!! :)

This storm already gets a big yuck from me. I had to drive home from Warrensburg to Sedalia on Highway 50 at 2 in the morning and I just made it home at 330, normally it's about a 40 minute drive. It was an ice skating rink out there and my windshield froze up about 10 times. Right now in Sedalia we are getting pretty moderate freezing rain and sleet mixed in. With the temp at 17 out it is really nasty out there. Anyone driving out there be careful it is really slick out this way.
         
                                    Steve

Stateline and 203rd - MO side - Everything covered with ice.  No precip now.