Snowfall reports

The system of yesterday and last night is now just a memory...Here are some reports we did get in....Most places picked up 1 to 2 inches of snow with higher amounts in Northern Barron,Rusk,Southern Washburn,Sawyer.Where 3 to 4 inches of snow fell...Over in Price,Iron,Ashland Counties as of last night 2 to 3 inches of snow have fallen.I do think them totals will be in the 4 to 5 inch range once the reports are updated...Here are some snow totals from our weather spotters/friends...Along with the NWS reports...
Derek in Clayton reported 1.00 inches of snow as of 9 PM last night...See his write up on this snow event(NW WISCONSIN WEATHER) link off to the right in the side bar...Parts of Eau Claire picked up 2.5 inches while other parts of the city picked up 1.5 inches...East of Rice Lake there was 2.5 inches reported..That total should be more,and may be updated...(NWS REPORT)....Cameron picked up 1.7 inches of snow,over in Barron 1.3 inches of snow....That is just a small amount of reports we got into the office through out the night...So for the most part the forecast was on target...Though the highly unlikely part turned out,as colder air aloft moved into the area sooner that forecasted...This system was a little different than most...Snow totals would have been more if there would have been colder air at the SFC..For the most part temps were right around 32 to 34 durning this event...Seems like the areas that got the most snow where in the higher terrains of the forecast area..This brings us to this question that was asked alot...Why does the Northern areas of Barron County seem to get more snow that other areas..So far in out studies we have found out...The terrain in them areas is higher than most other areas....This adds a little more lift to help produce more snow,As winds and moisture move into these areas the hills act like a lifting device...Once winds/moisture run into these areas the hill trust this upwards (LIFT) We still don't have enough data to confirm, or to deny this,However so far the data we do have is pointing that way..We still need more data to prove or disprove out theory..

Side note number 1

Special thanks going out to Derek for his plug on my blog on his blog along with his snowfall reports...I have to get better at adding his snowfall reports into these events along with plugs to his blog..Also once again sure didn't mean to sound mean...Just so many things going on at one time was hard to keep up with it all...

Side note number 2...

We are in a process of coming up with a new format on how we do reports...Also will be changing the format of the forecast in the next few weeks....We are going to keep the same format for the most part,we will be using a program so we don't have to type out IE CURRENT CONDITIONS and ect...We are kicking the idea around about using icons for the forecast after our forecast discussion...We will for sure be adding newer and better maps...So look for some nice cool big changes to our forecasts...Also this blog is in the process of slowly under going some changes..First one has already taken place,as I have changed the picture....So durning our down times look for the changes...We hope to have this all done by Jan 1 first 2010.....

Side note number 3....

Forecast will be issued tomorrow...Still looking at what could turn out to be a big storm for parts of the FA..Yes could be more snow..This snow may very will stick around for sometime...(if it turns out to be a big snow storm..Still alot of questions that need to worked out...Will talk about this tomorrow....