Today's feature is provided by BUFKIT Warehouse proprietor Chris Karstens.
The featured plot shows the NAM forecast of hourly qpf (in.) and mean mixed layer wind speeds (mph) for Slater, IA, initialized 6pm CST Sunday. A good shot of snow looks to be on tap this morning, with winds picking up later in the afternoon and evening, gusting near 40 mph, making for blizzard conditions. The National Weather Service has issued blizzard warnings for the expected impact of this morning and this past weekend's snow blowing around leading to whiteout conditions.

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Today's feature is contributed by BUFKIT Warehouse proprietor Chris Karstens:
The featured plot shows a BUFKIT time series (right to left) of precipitation amount and type from the Wednesday night run of the NWS NAM Model for Ottumwa Iowa. This plot would indicate an inch of ice accumulation between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. That amount of ice would cause considerable power outages and tree damage. Futher north in Iowa, more snow is expected with accumulations upwards of 8 inches.

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Local Bufkit guru Chris Karstens sent along a grid point time cross section for Ottumwa showing a very impressive setup for heavy snowfall taking shape on Sunday. The extreme amount of lift (depicted in red contours) is almost certainly convective and probably indicates a good chance for thundersnow. The image also depicts a period of moderate rain and freezing rain leading up to the heavy snowfall.

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Another super day, another super snowfall! Unfortunately, the same area is expected to get the heaviest snowfall today that got the heavy snowfall on Sunday. The featured image is from Chris Karstens, creator of The Bufkit Warehouse, showing a forecasted 11 inches of snow falling near Ottumwa. Our winter continues!

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The image shows the hourly time series (right to left) of the NAM's predicted snowfall (gray bars) for Davenport using the model's predicted snow ratio. Saturday afternoon, there is strong lift (red contours) in the atmosphere, the strongest of which is centered in the -12C to -18C temperature range known as the dendritic snow growth zone (purple/yellow contours).  When this occurs, it can sometimes lead to enhanced precipitation rates. This image is taken from BUFKIT, you can find out more about this program on The BUFKIT Warehouse website.

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