I should have known better. I don’t know how many more snow storms it is going to take before I learn that Wichita always gets hosed. The sleet to snow transition line was literally off the west side of Wichita and sat there all god damn day and night. We got 2 maybe 3 inches of sleet in Wichita, while Kingman county that borders us to the west got well over a foot of snow. Pratt got 29 inches of snow with 10 foot drifts. They shut down highway 54 just west of Wichita because it’s fine over here where we got screwed, but it’s a snow disasater if you go west of here ten miles. WE may have gotten an inch or two of snow late this morning when we finally changed over to snow, but it wasn’t much. This will be the sharpest gradient for snow amounts I’ve ever seen on a Kansas snow storm. There will be 25 mile wide areas that seperate snow amounts of 2 feet to 2 inches. This was an epic snow storm for central Kansas. We never get tw0 feet of snow (up to 30″ in places). It’s unheard of in this part of the country and we just got hosed on what will probably be the biggest snow storm I will ever see in my life (living in Wichita). If I knew this was going to happen I would have drove to western Kingman county and camped there so I could watch the snow.

That’s what I get for not working on my forecasting. All I did was check the basic model plots from the GFS and NAM. Forecast soundings are HUGE when forecasting winter weather and I never bothered to check them because none of the forecasts were mentioning the possibility of sleet and I have been burried working on other things for storm chasing. It’s my fault and I’m extremely depressed about missing out on this.

Well this weekend is dedicated to forecasting, updating a few things on my website, getting my video stream running, and organizing and working on the rest of my equipment. I should make a lot of progress and get a good forecast up tonight so check back later if you’re interested.