gallopinggertie

Sounds like snow pellets or graupel, aka sleet that was coated with rime crystals. Congrats on the frozen precip! You’ve now outdone both Seattle and Portland for the winter. (Very sad achievement for the Pacific Northwest, one of only two or three truly snowless winters I have experienced here).

Looks like Jacksonville will be on the edge of the wintry precip. I would issue a WSW if I were the NWS just to be safe, after all Gainesville is under one…

And seems pretty certain Houston will also get historic snowfall, at least the eastern half of the city.

NWS has issued winter storm watches for the Big Bend and even Gainesville!

Panama City goes from nothing to 4-5”…

Still seems like a go for SE Texas and Louisiana, right? NOLA and Houston are both under winter storm warnings/watches now. Actually so is most of South Texas, even Austin and San Antonio, just because the criteria is so low there.

Dang. I’m hoping they get at least 1-2” down there.

Thoughts on New Orleans snow chances?

Winter storm watch was just added by the NWS for Houston. They’re saying up to 3” of snow and sleet.

What are people’s thoughts on snow chances for New Orleans? Seems like they might be on the edge of the snow/freezing rain line but will probably at least get some snow, with a chance it’ll be one of their biggest snowfalls in history.

Typhoon Dikeledi has made it to 32 S (similar latitude to Perth or the coast of South Africa) as a tropical cyclone. It’s unusual for southern hemisphere cyclones to stay tropical so far south.

Yeah, that’s the all-time great. Weather fans here always hope for something like that…unfortunately, it might not be in reach anymore with climate change, but we’ll see. December 2008 was not to that level, but it was still pretty awesome in Seattle. A foot and a half of snow over the course of a couple weeks, and many subfreezing highs. Another standout was in Bellingham was 2016-2017, when we had a total of about twenty inches of snow and lakes froze solid enough to walk across in January. Or February 2019, with two weeks of mostly below-freezing temps followed by four days of on-and-off snow. I haven’t seen a winter I would call truly epic here yet, though. Hopefully I’m lucky enough to live through one before winters get too warm!

Yeah, the last decade has been pretty decent for this part of the country, arguably better than for normally snowier places like Washington, DC. There is a ton of geographic variation here though, so often Seattle will have a snowstorm and nothing falls in Portland, or vice versa. Also anywhere above 1000’ gets a lot more snow here, and there are a lot of interesting medium-scale geographic features that affect snowfall. Right now I’m living vicariously through the Tennessee/upper South storm.

Happy for you guys! You folks get similar snowfall averages to where I live (Portland, Oregon). So even though it’s been a snowless winter here, I’m living vicariously through this storm, which looks like the best in a long time for your part of the country.

This winter continues to be horrible for the Pacific Northwest, with little hope on the horizon. Actually, we’ve gotten pretty lucky here over the past 7 years for cold and snow. The snowfall averages here are similar to eastern cities like Raleigh or Nashville, and dud winters where it basically doesn’t snow at all tend to come every 3 or 4 years on average. A couple of my favorite winter weather events this decade were December 2022 and February 2022. In the former I lived in Bellingham, Washington. It snowed about 9 inches of powder overnight and was downright frigid for the next four days. Then we got an epic ice storm before it all melted. In February 2022 I was in Seattle and it snowed a foot! Sadly it only stuck around for a couple days. But it was pretty awesome - really deep snow is not common in the lowlands here.