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Just had some sleet down here. Like I have said. I am really hoping this system slides through with nothing. Not today anyways.

I don't mind the cold...just the wind that sucks

I like ice and sleet. Any frozen is good frozen.

Much appreciated. I'm keeping track on a notes app on my phone, and making notations about things (like that the town plowed twice for those 0.5" "events" here...lol)

This was never more than a 10 hour event at best.

Bristol-Oxford-New Milford triangle type jack

All set. Yes I can quickly make fixes. At least for this year only I can make changes once posted to make sure everything on the sheet stays formatted correctly.

You and Ray need to move.

is this really turning into a 8-9 hour event...basically 6-3am

A lot of model noise for the 4th - 7th with more hits centered around the 6th.

sleet. 32. you don’t understand how happy I am to say I measured a trace.

ice storm in Michigan

How is EVER single map this winter, With storms in now 4 Different Directions, a Northeast RI Screwer? Every. One. EVERY one.

Wow I am Keyfood now and its packed.

it wobbled a little but i disagree gfs has handled this storm the best so far but we'll see reality by tomorrow

And I just did some entries. I made a double entry by accident on 11/28 And the 1st entry on 11/14 was supposed to be 11/10 (my first trace) I can't delete or change once entered... I assume I would need to ask you to?

Kuchera doesn't count sleet either, at least not on Pivotal. Kuchera is a terrible algorithm only based on max column temp, not taking into account crystal formation, which governs snow bulk density/ratio on the ground, as long as melting doesn't occur while falling, so Kuchera helps when the column is over 32F somewhere and can give some hint at ratios where the column is cold, but much of that depends on the crystal habit being formed in the DGZ, which is dependent on lift and supersaturation, none of which has anything to do with Kuchera. 10:1 is best IMO because it also gives an easy estimate of QPF (10:1, duh), whereas one has no idea how much QPF went into the Kuchera calculation. The sleet question is separate. Some services show sleet separately but most don't. We have the Pivotal approach of only showing snow, so sleet is missed completely, which is bad, since sleet is as impactful as snow (same mass) on road conditions and removal/shoveling (but it's not as pretty), while we also have the TT approach which counts sleet as 10:1 snow, so one at least gets an impact assessment, but it's also very misleading on the snow/sleet depth and many like to know the depth too. I type something like this every storm. I should just save it somewhere and copy/paste, lol.

Light sleet, melting immediately

We do have a few posters here that are NWS mets.

there were enough red flags (dry air, vort source region, etc) from several good Mets here to never get me excited of more than 1 or 2" in Eastern MA outside of any additional ocean enhancement - which could still produce a few bonus inches in spots along N plym county, and maybe an extra inch or 2" here if lucky.

Looks like they're downgrading our area to a coating to an inch as it seems to be trending northward and going to be almost entirely sleet with less heavy bands in my neck of the woods. Ah well, I'll take whatever we get.

It has, a lot. But you might not have noticed it when focusing on Westchester Co.

No worries - just wanted to make sure it not working correctly wasn't the cause... :-)

I hope - for if nothing else, the status of their mental wellbeing - they steer far away from it. .

Temperatures around 50 on Monday with some rain showers. Then we get real Cold heading towards new years