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Oh shit!

Persistent trends die hard.

Putting the weenie in weenie run...

Probably since GHD 1, LMAO!!!

2.5" of combined snow/sleet. Actually were within the bullseye in the Metroplex. There was still plenty of patches left today.

Hilarious. But I had called it (just not to that extent, haha!).

^^^Nailed it!!!

I'm not sure what the synoptic setup was like in the 1880s, but for 1974, the pattern just hasn't been conducive for that type of storm in the central/western Great Lakes. For most of the epic/historic snowstorms in this region (see Buffalo last month for example), they required deep closed upper level lows, a negative tilt trough, no greenland block and a surface low with gulf origins. The closest things came was 2/26/13. But thermals were an issue for that system. Until we can shake up the upper level flow so that it's not so damn uber-progressive, it's going to be awhile.

After a snow/sleet mix for the past 20 minutes, we have finally flipped over to a light snow.

Still getting heavy pingers here. *sigh*

Well I just had to deal with 7 straight hours of heavy pingers (and even now we're still getting light pingers). So sorry to say, I can't empathize with your plight.

Looks like michsnowfreak and DTW might grind their way towards 8" as they get grazed with the light pixie dust from the 2nd wave.

There's a massive pocket of subsidence passing over much of the Metroplex right now. So that's not helping with the transition either. BTW, heavy sleet for hours on end is shit. The only redeeming quality is that it's not freezing rain.

Indications are that areas on the Fort Worth side have started flipping over to snow. But the PL/SN line since then has slowed its progression.

Heavy sleet for hours on end really does suck. And yet, its only redeeming quality is that it's better than freezing rain.

If I did lose power, it was back on when I woke up 1/2 hour ago. That said, the faster sleet transition and the fact that surface temps stalled right around freezing during the burst of liquid precip, has definitely saved us from something that could have been much worse. Now if you want some fodder, the 09z RAP is showing 4-6" of snow/sleet for the Metroplex.

Power was flickering a 3rd time just a few minutes ago.

The anchor on Fox 4 (Steve Eager) mentioned on-air that his mom's house in Carrollton is without power.

Yes, and they did flicker a 2nd time after that post.

My power flickered about 10-15 minutes ago. Here we go...

Gotta give it to them. That's a damn good bow tie to put on a bust.

It's not the first GHD that happened.

Looks like most of Metro Detroit's going to end up with only 6-8" (maybe isolated amounts up to 10"). If those are the final totals, while not a bad storm (and folks who just wanted some snow back on the ground got their fill), it would be a bust relative to what was forecasted, the media hype that led up to it and also what the models projected.

As of 5pm, FTW is down to 33°F, DFW is down to 35°F and McKinney is down to 34°F.

FTW is reporting sleet with a temp of 35°F (as of 4pm).