What a doozy of a storm!

The weather today has thrown many for a loop.  The predicted storm could have gone a variety of ways each with a very different outcome.  One could have given us a good foot of snow.  This was if the two low pressure areas and the warm front collided together to form a great deal of precipitation.  The way in which it did occur was the low pressure area died out before it hit the Eau Claire area.  So not the big storm everyone was imagining but still a good amount of snow.  The Eau Claire schools were canceled and the snow is continuing to fall.

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Temperature: 27 degrees F
Wind: 7 mph from the South
Real Feel: 20 degrees F
Dew point: 21 degrees F.
Cloud Cover: 100%
Precipitation:  roughly 4 to 5 inches of snow
Barometric Pressure: 30.09 and increasing

With a comparison of these two images ( above and below) its easy to see that the large storm is following the flow of the jet stream in our area.  This precipitation for us will last until later tonight.  Probably within in the next few hours because the high pressure system moving in to the area.  The next few days should be relatively calm.      

The current surface winds look like the image below and as you can see EC is getting some cooler air from the north and pushing that storm South.