After a couple weeks with no significant measurable snow, Monday night brought several inches of very heavy, wet snow. Below are a few pictures around campus, focusing on a couple of the areas that have been at the center of NIU the past couple weeks.
Students pondering Cole Hall. Zulauf Hall in the background.
Another perspective of Cole Hall, with Zulauf Hall behind and Founders Library off the left.
Neptune Hall (left foreground), Holmes Student Center (left background), and Founders Library (right)
Makeshift memorial for the slain students in front of Holmes Student Center.
Memorial message boards in King Commons.
Click for a radar animation depicting heavy snow band moving through DeKalb.
Students pondering Cole Hall. Zulauf Hall in the background.
Another perspective of Cole Hall, with Zulauf Hall behind and Founders Library off the left.
Neptune Hall (left foreground), Holmes Student Center (left background), and Founders Library (right)
Makeshift memorial for the slain students in front of Holmes Student Center.
Memorial message boards in King Commons.
Click for a radar animation depicting heavy snow band moving through DeKalb.
Heavy snow - rates at this time approaching 2"/hr.
After the snow.
Click for radar loop.
700 mb frontogenesis overlaying northern Illinois.
I-88 looking east.
Normal Rd. on NIU Campus.
Lincoln Hwy. looking west.
Lincoln Hwy. looking east toward downtown DeKalb.
The edge of my driveway .... what the streets look like before the plows get there!
Level 2 radar composite illustrating the frontogenetical banding taking place across northern Illinois. This storm was quite a surprise for our area due to this exceptional feature that set up shop well north and west of where the models had initially placed it. Snow totals in the Fox Valley -- 30 miles east of us -- approached a foot.
