Well hello bloggers. It sure has been an interesting past 18 hours here in the Ozarks. This was quite the system as we have been following its every move for about a week.

Models for days were painting 12+ inches in some parts of the Ozarks. Model run after model run showed an area southeast of I-44 that could see the heaviest snow. Well at the very last minute mother nature decided to throw a curve ball that not a single person could have seen and set up a very thin 25 mile wide band of very heavy snow right over the Springfield metro. That thin band dropped snow at 2" per hour and then as it took a slow move to the SE it TOTALLY fell apart, leaving some areas with 8" of snow and just 20 miles away not even a dusting.

This rare event and freak weather phenomenon could not have been predicted on such a small scale level. Even at the last minute models were trying to push nearly ALL of the snow to the SE of the region. It just goes to show that no matter how good our technology is and how educated we are as meteorologists, the weather and Mother Nature will do what it wants to do no matter what. Our job is to try to make our best guess as to what she is going to do. Sometimes it is easy but as many have seen here in the Ozarks, forecasting weather in the most variable weather city in the U.S. is a tough job!

So lets take a look at just how crazy this was with our thin band of snow.

If we take a look at the Visible Satellite image from today, the satellite is picking up the snow cover. You can see the very thin band of what looks like clouds, but that is SNOW. Look how thin of a line that is that received the heavy snow.

Our exclusive StormVision 3D product called SnowVision can be used to look at where the heaviest snow fell. Two areas the one thin band over Springfield, down through Barry county and up through Dallas county to just east of Camdenton. And the other further to the east into eastern Douglass county, northwestern Howell county, and central portions of Texas county and Dent county.

The darker purple and pinks are the heaveist snow.

Here is a closer look at snow amounts.

While we haven't had reports this high, our SnowVision product is showing over a foot in very rural portions of southern Texas County, northwestern Howell and eastern Ozark county. It is all possible as that heavy band was putting down 2" per hour for quite sometime this morning.

Obviously some of you know that you did not receive hardly any snow AT ALL. In locations like Branson and Ozark and Fordland and Hartville. To give another example of how sharp of a cutoff we had, a friend of mine who lives in Ozark tells me that driving up US 60, the exit for highway 14 had NO snow at all while just a couple miles north to the Fremont Hills exit nearly 3" of snow was on the exit ramp.

So... for those of you with the snow! Congrats! For those left out, well maybe next time ???

Ok now on to some of our weather over the next few days.

Today's Headlines...

1. Tomorrow sunshine will return with warmer temps into the 40's and more melting will take place.

2. Another weak clipper system will affect the area Wednesday night, but with limited moisture not much is expected. A cold shot of air will follow this system though.

Temps Thursday Morning.

Another shot of some rain or snow possible on Friday with another weak system.

It will be followed by some pretty cold air as well. Overnight lows down in the low teens possible Sat. morning.

A warm-up though by the middle of next week.

Once again big thanks for everyone here on the blog and following along with us. ALMOST 15,000 hits to the weather blog in the past couple days. Hopefully those of you who got snow can get out and play around in it, and hey those of you that didn't get the snow then come on up to Springfield we have plenty up here!

Chief Meteorologist Kevin Lighty