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NorthHillsWx

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  1. That should put me firmly above 75” of digital snow from the GFS this season. Solid win for sure
  2. I will say, at least we busted with an ice storm. Some in the Mid Atlantic were expecting 5-8+ from this and got nothing but a coating of sleet and glaze. This forum would be in an absolute meltdown
  3. My trees are still ice coated at the top but the melt line has risen about halfway up. Interesting to watch
  4. HRRR is the most aggressive but to your point that would be significant icing if true
  5. It was a major threat! Haha. Inches of digital ice
  6. For what it’s worth, models for the most part trended yesterday to what actually happened. Yea, they wayyyy overdid it in days leading up but it’s not like those extreme ice totals held up before go time
  7. Yea, this is going to end up as a major bust for the warning areas. Some may reach 0.25 but nowhere near the 0.50+” predicted
  8. Still some icing in trees but looks like it’s above the ground. Temp up to 32.2 from a low of 31.4
  9. Definitely is. We’ve been just far enough East to catch this broken band all morning. I’m well over a half inch qpf since midnight. Obviously our temps are borderline here but we probably have 0.10 glaze now imby. I’d think wake forest/rolesvilla/Louisburg would have a pretty thick coating if we’re getting it just north of Raleigh. Our temps are rising now so we’re probably about done
  10. https://postimg.cc/WD9bxr1L Starting to get some sagginess to the trees here.
  11. Yep. Upstream shows that mid levels were indeed even warmer than expected. However, temps at the surface have not been the issue. If anything, we (Raleigh) are running a bit below what the models had for us. We’ve been fluctuating between 31.4-31.6 here for a while and have a solid glaze. I think if more precip was involved this would have verified. Funny we were all worried about temps busting but looks like it was precip
  12. I have an office job with Duke energy and only occasionally get called in for storm duty, but I’ve been on call since 5pm yesterday and know we brought crews up from Florida for this event. Over preparation beats being surprised, but yea, could be a lot of wasted man hours and time on this one
  13. Looking like a significant forecast bust for the triad. I’m not seeing the moisture that was supposed to be there. Good for people who like power
  14. Actually colder here than I thought we’d get. We’ve dropped to 31.4 with light freezing rain and a pretty good glaze now
  15. Might not be temps that save the triad, but a complete lack of qpf
  16. Nice glaze forming now. Temp has dropped and rates have lightened so we’re getting better accumulation. Not expecting much but it is pretty
  17. We have a light glaze on everything elevated now that I can see. Temp 31.7 DP 30.9
  18. We have dipped to freezing here as I wake up. Actually sounds like some sleet banging on the window. 31.9/31. Not sure if there’s a glaze yet or not
  19. NE wind has really picked up. Stepped outside for dinner and it had that “storms a coming” feel to it
  20. If we had a stronger HP this would include a lot more of us tomorrow. Those single digit readings in Pennsylvania...
  21. I know it’s noise at this point, but the 18z gfs was fairly significantly warmer than 12z
  22. Clouds have moved into the Raleigh area. Any potential for radiational cooling is gone. Temp 44, DP 25. Not looking like the immediate Raleigh area is at risk for exceeding ice expectations. Usually need that DP in the teens to around 20 to get it done here
  23. This has been the fly in the ointment for this forecast for DAYS. It’s inexplicably warm for a LP track such as this. The 2002 event had +5 850’s and some models, as you pointed out, are predicting nearly double that, an absolute mid level torch! My thoughts are they are overdone somehow. Will be interesting to see how the mid levels actually play out through tomorrow, I have a gut feeling it’s overdone and models are too warm based on the warm 850’s, but we will see. As you said, uncharted territory
  24. While an interesting note, the air this system will be working with here has absolutely no connection to the cold air that settled west of the apps. I’d be looking north of here for temp/dew point trends vs model outputs in terms of verification of our winter event
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