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It's been like this the last hour or snow. I'll take it. 

Visibility at a few hundred yards and still have a northerly breeze.

2 hours ago, ErinInTheSky said:

I'm hugging the NAM. I want 3-5" of sleet. I love love love those kinds of storms. When I first moved here in 2016, a year later, 2017, was my favorite winter storm. 3" of sleet. People here know how to deal with snow mostly but sleet, no. It was hilarious because I suddenly felt like everyone was in my boat, a newbie.

People treated it like snow, it looked like snow, covered everything, but it was not snow.

The plows came and created these sleet mountains that looked like snow. People tried to back over them with their cars, and it didn't compact down, because it was pure ice. It was chaos in the most hilarious way, car tires sticking up in the air as the cars got stuck on those little snow banks created by the plows.

It stayed for SO long, melted so slowly. I absolutely loved it.

and that was 3". Nam is showing 4-5" of sleet now. That is exciting to me.

I experienced a storm like that in Oklahoma many, many years ago. Curb deep sleet (4-6") followed by freezing rain. Then the temps crashed. Net result was a chunky 4" thick glacier. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VW0nYdYU8qSGiuNEkyvUGS6ml4c9yrJS/view

Size matters, but quantity counts.

Fatties in the yellow, but light rate.

Stuck in the fatty hole 

Not cold or snowing hard, little accumulation, but sticky and scenic. All in all a pleasant Sunday morning.

Subtle rate increase over the past 15 minutes.

Good morning, Leesburg/Aldie! Cars and street covered out front.

Sleet. The next band is sleet... :-(

The last band of snowballs exited north. The next is inbound from the south. What will it be? Snowballs or heavy sleet? ;-)

Ripping snowballs just south of Leesburg!

The band moving into Leesburg is snow. I kinda expected sleet. 

Pukin' snow. About 200 yards to tree line

Righteous squall

1 minute ago, Fozz said:

Nice pic. Which shutter speed did you use for that?

The Note9 used 1/120s @ F2.4, ISO 64 :-)

Leesburg being Leesburg ....

Was a beautiful drifting snow storm

My favorite image is actually used by someone as their avatar. Bob Ryan's snowfall map during Friday's 11pm news. Did he really just put me in the 30-40" bullseye? Oh and the blue lightening during the night.