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This stuff isn't snow lol.. Its at least 20:1 right now

As much as I REALLY wish this could have been all or mostly snow, I don't totally mind experiencing what may be a veritable sleet bomb. In 2007, for the Valentine's Day storm when I was in the Capitol Hill area of DC, we got 3" of sleet. No snow at all. But that was a relatively warmer storm (I think it went just above freezing for a short time after the sleet before temps plummeted, and it didn't start as cold as this one). This event will be very cold throughout. I hear people talking about sleet bombs from 2017 or 2018 (??) but I don't recall that, maybe closer to the metro areas it wasn't much of anything compared to other locations. I do remember we were expected to get a ton of sleet in 2021-ish?? Ended up with an inch maybe that was over before noon, kind of a bust.

Big dendrites all snow in Sterling still holding on for now.

We dodged a major bullet across Unicoi county last night. Much warmer than modeled. (The CAD downsloping fingers never really helped much). Most of my glaze is gone. But I've had several wind gusts at 30mph this morning and my Davis is daily well protected from this direction of wind. It's ripping.

I’m not nit picking, just discussing.

Thats about the ratio i just estimated. Larger flakes now too

Flake size starting to increase. Started Jebwalk around 7:50 mostly just icy little flakes, they’re starting to get a little fluffier now. Wind is def gusting and the snow is drifting a bit. Deep winter out there

I don't think he is nitpicking as much as he is being realistic. People are going nuts with this widespread 20" stuff because of Kuchera maps

Same here 12f dew point 11f heavy snow blowing and drifting happening around the cars etc.

WRAL said the temp at 1800 feet is about 6 degrees warmer than 500 feet (sensors on the Tower)

It’s like an iron shield, marching northeast.

HRRR still doesn't want to bring temps above freezing in Wake

Yeah agreed, Euro ahead of the storm and the NAM with the details, seems to be the norm.

Yeah that top ‘experimental’ one has me in the helpful 3-9” range. No difference in impacts there… Needs to go back into the lab.

Its beautiful down here. Snow is accumulating fast. Enjoy up there

I think 20+ is def doable for areas around 84

Been a while (maybe never) when it is sleeting so hard (again, a few mangled flakes) that vis is .2-.5 mile. Temp finally budged up a hair after falling over 16 hours, currently 11.3/8.1 at 8:20 am. A solid .5 to .7 of new sleet/mix in 75 minutes!

Snowing moderately with 2.8" in south philly. I saw DC has been taken over by sleet with these heaviest bands. Anyone recall when they were forecast to transition? I thought it was around 10 am.

Not for nothing , and I will leave this here in banter - but I am kinda fascinated by the next part of the storm - a bunch of sleet on top of this kind of base of snow with temps in the mid teens is a literal first for me in terms of weather experience. If it actually rains on top of that , well, bring it. this is an absolutely memorable storm.

4° w/ moderate snow 3.2" otg This is at least 20:1 stuff right now

Lots of MD traffic cams here https://chart.maryland.gov/InteractiveMap/GetInteractiveMap

Its a beautiful sight to see snow with temps in the teens.

trying to reverse engineer my avg snow ratio since it started around 4:30 AM. 0.11 LE - 2.3 inches of snow = about a 20:1 ratio currently