New Update At Noon! Dry Air Cuts Back Snowfall Totals.....

Oak, the snow is moving into the WLFI viewing area however it's not looking to great at this time! As we looked at the radars in the morning hours we could see some heavy bands of snow developing to our west. However as this snow started to pass the Indiana state line it was slowly starting to evaporate right in front of our eye's. This is because we are still a little to dry to really support heavy snowfall. This dry air is going to really cut back our snowfall totals. Take a look at this radar image below.

Radar image taken at 11:57am EST.
You can see how everything is breaking up into a scattered light snowy mess. If we want big snowfall number we need to see more moist air. We had Dew points at around 20 degrees earlier this morning around 9:am which is pretty dry. Now they are starting to go up however they are moving up slowly. It is now noon and we are looking at Dew points around 23 to 24 degrees. With temperatures right around 32 to 33 degrees. There is a good nine degree difference between these two temperatures. Now as we see the Dew point and Temperature get closer this means we are becoming more moist and will be able to support some more snow. You can see the dry air below.
It's not to bad however it's dry enough. Now if you go and pull up a national radar something like http://www.intellicast.com/ or something you will see that the radar is showing lots of blue over our area. Well there is however most of that isn't hitting the ground! Now my radar image you seen at the top of this page is showing what's hitting the ground. And you can see it's looking like a scattered hit and miss mess at this time. Now I do think we will in time see things start to come together and we could pick up around an inch or so. However I don't see us getting much more. I don't want to totally rule out the chance for two inches however areas to the north and east of Lafayette, will have the better chance of 1" to 3" inches possible.

So Lafayette between 1" and 2" inches "possible" And areas north and east of Lafayette, and the WLFI viewing area could see closer to 1" to 3" inches possible.

Stay tuned bloggers. I'll check back as needed..........