March 2nd Snow Storm Totals?

[bwframe]

Not much here in Monroe County at noon. Maybe 3/4" of sleet with nothing coming down.
I hate to poke the sleeping bear, but do we think they overrated this storm?

 

[churchmouse]

They sensationalize for ratings. Weather is now a business needing revenue streams to pay for radar/choppers/6 talking head weather guessers and so on. Makes me nuts and i try not to pay attention but they have a hook in the wife.....

 

[2ADMNLOVER]

Here on the west side we've got more than that already . The sleet was coming down at 5:00 am this morning then we got some light accumulation of snow on top of that .

Naw , I think the worst of it is supposed to come in later today .

 

[churchmouse]

Here on the west side we've got more than that already . The sleet was coming down at 5:00 am this morning then we got some light accumulation of snow on top of that .

Naw , I think the worst of it is supposed to come in later today .

Man I hope not.

 

[CHCRandy]

It's over......they missed it bad! That's what happens when we have computer watchers instead of meteorologists.

Maybe 1 1/2" in Avon.

 

[Snapdragon]

No more than 3" here in NW IN.

 

[mom45]

It looks like they had it wrong. There is a page on Facebook I follow that has been pretty accurate all winter. They posted this comment about an hour ago.

Needless to say this has been a tough forecast for everyone, myself included. A lot went wrong with this storm system and it was a very complicated set-up. A high pressure system from the North caused dry air to eat away at the snow potential across Northern and North Central Indiana. Warmer air aloft caused sleet and freezing rain to move farther North than expected. The low pressure system was very strung out causing the forecast models to be of very little help when trying to forecast snowfall amounts or the track of this storm.

The snow potential is just about done across Northern Indiana but another wave will bring snow back to Central and Southern Indiana tonight. Here's a look at our updated Rosa's Office PlusSnowCast. This is what we expect through tomorrow for additional snowfall accumulations.

Again it was not a good forecast. I'm not making excuses but just trying to explain what went wrong.

 

[printcraft]

No more than 3" here in NW IN.

This ^

Chihuahua bellies are still above the snow line so not too big a whoop.

 

[churchmouse]

It looks like they had it wrong. There is a page on Facebook I follow that has been pretty accurate all winter. They posted this comment about an hour ago.

Needless to say this has been a tough forecast for everyone, myself included. A lot went wrong with this storm system and it was a very complicated set-up. A high pressure system from the North caused dry air to eat away at the snow potential across Northern and North Central Indiana. Warmer air aloft caused sleet and freezing rain to move farther North than expected. The low pressure system was very strung out causing the forecast models to be of very little help when trying to forecast snowfall amounts or the track of this storm.

The snow potential is just about done across Northern Indiana but another wave will bring snow back to Central and Southern Indiana tonight. Here's a look at our updated Rosa's Office PlusSnowCast. This is what we expect through tomorrow for additional snowfall accumulations.

Again it was not a good forecast. I'm not making excuses but just trying to explain what went wrong.

An apology from on high.....amazing.

 

[gregkl]

Our local guy downgraded it yesterday to 3-5". We got about 4" so far. I say he did pretty good here.

 

[mom45]

An apology from on high.....amazing.

I really like this guy's page. He is bluntly honest most of the time and often disagrees with what the local media put on the TV and such. I ignore them and read what his page says.

 

[churchmouse]

I really like this guy's page. He is bluntly honest most of the time and often disagrees with what the local media put on the TV and such. I ignore them and read what his page says.

My wife has got to watch the 5:00 and 10:00 news casts which are near than same drivel. She is hooked and believes what those inflated butt heads are spewing about the weather......Nearly always sensationalized Bravo Sierra.
I have weather on demand and it is nearly always much closer to reality.
I also have sources that work for the FAA and I can get what they are telling the pilots.

 

[SERparacord]

Maybe 2" around Muncie. I fired up the snow blower any way.

 

[KittySlayer]

Boy who cried wolf!

They sensationalize for ratings...
talking head weather guessers

We have this moron Curtis in Fort Wayne that just loves to hear himself talk. Always going on and on about the disastrous storm we will be getting and then it "just missed us". He interrupted a good portion of a Stanley Cup game last year for an extended Live Weather Update for RAIN. He kept hoping for it to turn into ice or snow but it was just rain and he still had to blather on and on about how bad it would be if the temperature would just drop a few degrees. This went on for an entire period and then someone in authority must have got on the phone because he was gone for the third period of the game.

This weekend he warned us to all buy ingredients for French Toast as there could be TEN inches of snow. I bet his wife was disappointed on their wedding night after he kept promising ten inches and he showed up several inches short of his prediction.

 

[SERparacord]

If they over forecast not many care. Now if they underestimate it.

 

[Stickfight]

Conspiracy says weathermen are in cahoots with grocery store owners and receive kickbacks based on the inches of snow they predict. They were just trying to squeeze the last drops of green from the deal before the season closes out.

 

[printcraft]

Conspiracy says weathermen are in cahoots with grocery store owners and receive kickbacks based on the inches of snow they predict. They were just trying to squeeze the last drops of green from the deal before the season closes out.

I hate french toast gougers.

 

[ThatOneKid]

There's hardly anything here in the SE, just a light dusting, but a lot of sleet, haven't been outside yet to check it out

 

[Smokepole]

Much ado about nothing. These people need to justify their jobs anymore.

 

[ghostdncr]

Plenty of rain here in the Louisville/Clarksville/Jeffersonville area. I was in Madison this morning and watched about a 1/4" of ice materialize as I headed home around 9:00, but that seemed to evaporate around the Sellersburg area.