metalicwx367

Checking in from Alaska. We ended the winter with 77 inches of snow which was only 1 inch below average. Coldest winter in nearly 20 years. Coldest March on record. 4th coldest Spring on record. Snowiest January on record which made up for the snowless December. Highest wind gust ever recorded at Anchorage airport when we hit 75MPH back in December. December was a beast when it came to these back to back destructive Matansuka Valley wind events. I'm seeing a lot of photos and videos from Waycross, GA today on Facebook of significant damage from that thunderstorm earlier today. No warning was on it and multiple people are saying it was absolutely a tornado. That or a microburst. Interesting video from the storm below. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1LW4kAXRzY/

If this were to occur, it would be almost exactly a year from last winter's Gulf Coast snow event. I'm rooting for you guys. We've finally made up for our snow drought here in Anchorage with us picking up 29 inches of snow over the last 6 days. I've never seen so much in this short of a period snow in my life.

Northeast Anchorage. It's been exceptionally cold and dry this month.

Things could always be worse. You could live in Alaska and not receive any snowfall for the entire month in what is normally your snowiest month.

Congrats! You're about to pass our current season snowfall in Anchorage, AK.

You should see the weather models up here in Alaska. They will literally back off on a winter storm the day of the event. The amount of microscale effects and terrain up here in Anchorage make this place extremely challenging to forecast for. On November 17th, NWS was forecasting 4-8 inches of snow for the majority of the Anchorage area and we got 0.

Sometimes we have no control over that lol. Checking in from cold Anchorage and missing the warm SE weather.

Nearly 3 inches of rain here in my backyard today from that quasi-stationary cell earlier and then a second round 30 mins later. Still constant thunder and lightning outside but majority of the activity is to the south now. Just got back in my hometown today from Anchorage, Alaska so that was quite the change.

Nope not at all this winter lol

Yep that is correct!

Last few days in Australia. Getting sent to Anchorage Alaska next. Lol. Well I guess that historic snowstorm in GA last month was just the warm-up for Alaska.

Haha yeah! Fortunately it looks like it may stay to our east.

Wild going from historic snow event in Southern Georgia to nearly a Category 5 hurricane just chilling off the coast of Australia. We will see where this comes ashore but I've never experienced anything over a Category 1.

We are sitting here on the edge of our seats trying to figure out where this beast is gonna go. I've never seen so much disagreement and divergence between models and ensembles in this short of a timeframe. If this ends up tracking further west than expected as some of the ensembles suggest, we are gonna be in serious trouble here in Exmouth.

It was indeed a very fun month. Glad to have experienced a historic winter storm in my hometown before returning back to this weather in Australia.

23 degrees here and clear skies. Still got snow on the ground even after temps in the 50s yesterday. Heading to the airport to go back to Australia. Glad I got to be in my hometown for this historic snow event.

Agreed CMC did a great job. Initially when we started out as snow and it had already started accumulating hours ahead of when we were supposed to transition over I thought "holy crap HRRR might be right" then we switched over to sleet the moment temps went below freezing. Very fun event though. I still have about 1.5 inches in the yard. The roads are drivable today somewhat but yesterday didn't leave the house at all. Some locations on north side of town I've seen measurements of 4-5 inches of snow/sleet.

Currently 28F with sleet. After that brief period of heavy snow, we switched back over to sleet. We were pretty much sleet for 90% of the storm. 3 inches of sleet and snow in backyard at the moment. CMC/RGEM were the only models that showed a pure sleetfest here. Still an incredible storm though. I am curious to see what KAYS reports for totals and if we beat the 1973 record.

Coming down pretty good outside.

It's 28F here and heavy snow now. Finally switched over. I love how many people are outside right now at 1am.

We've been sleet down here in SE GA for past 4 hours lol. Got an inch on the ground so far but definitely ate into our snow potential here. Looking at Correlation Coefficient on radar, looks like we'll remain sleet for the next couple of hours.

31 now with sleet and freezing rain. Light dusting of snow & sleet on roofs, cars, and grass in the area.

Yep its nearly all snow now. 80% snow, 20% sleet. Temp down to 34F. It was 43F an hour and a half ago.

36F with snow and sleet. Just started snowing about 5 mins ago. The HRRR model might be right.

43F and sleet rn lol.