Jebman

Normally I'd be out delivering especially on a Saturday night when I usually push it to 7am BUT with all that sleet and ice out there I have been literally reading you guys ALL NIGHT LONG!

Looks like things are looking MUCH better for N VA and the DC Crew after all! VERY HAPPY for you guys!!!!!!

What I have been seeing down here in south central TX the last couple of hours has been a procession of bands of precip. The temp is 24. DP is 23. Winds are NNE at 14 G 28. Feels cold as heck, I'll tell you! I'm not used to this any more, been living down here 7 years. Some bands have freezing rain, Some have ZR and sleet. This band contains pretty heavy sleet. I have a half inch of fresh sleet. It's a lot easier walking on the sleet, that it was on the freshly fallen ZR that had iced my front steps. We're stacking this stuff up like blackjack chips down here overnight. I think I have a half inch of sleet then a quarter inch of ZR, then half an inch of more sleet. That sleet is really coming down right now! What a storm! This reminds me of living in Dale City in northern Virginia!

I am trying to remember 2013-2014. Its in my sig lol. Yeah we had snows in Feb and March. I was probably talking a lot about jebwalking with music blasting, watching snow blow by the streetlights and digging lots of snow, piling it up on the north sides of sunlight blocking objects such as cars and houses and sheds and above all to pile it way the hell up to embarrassing heights lmao. And proclaiming like I did back in those days, about liking snow to the utter exclusion of everything else and everyone else. lol, yeah I was pretty obsessed with snow then lol

Welcome to the storm. You'll get crushed soon.

Best of luck to you! I hope you have the perfect snowstorm for all-time!

You think you were weird. In the old days I would wander around by streetlights holding a thermometer and a one foot ruler, taking numerous readings for hours and hours. I'd find a patch of ice and slide on it at high speed whooping it up like someone who's just won five billion dollars in the mega millions scratchoff. Man there is nothing, nothing at all, like the high high you can experience by seeing those big aggregates blowing by the streetlights, banshee northeasterly winds blowing snow along the ground, all while you walk slowly by while blasting your favorite track in your headphones!

Its something I heard from another poster here back in the Eastern US Weather Forum days. Every time we had sleet in the DMV, that poster would mention that having a lot of sleet in your backyard was like having a hot sister. Now I've taken it up. Later on, someone else will proclaim it. I am not sure what it means lol.

Getting a lot of big heavy sleet is just like having a hot sister.

I know that feelin! Many times in the old days when I was younger and living in N VA, I'd stay up all damn night and all the next day to watch the snow! I LOVED SNOW and I loved diggin it too! I'd blast the livin heck out of ELO as well! Especially in the Incredible winter of 2009-2010!! I got notes from those days!

Enjoy that snow!!

Thus far tonight, 23 degrees, sleet and ZR bands continue apace, with half inch sleet accumulations on every surface, with about three sixteenths of an inch of pure ZR ice on top of that. The friction coefficient is extremely low and I have already experienced several near-disastrous episodes tonight as I tried my best to get sleet and ice accumulation measurements. Damn shoes are so slick! Railings are ice covered and VERY slippery, really not much help at all and I am most assuredly not the young man I once was and I really have to be super careful. This ain't 1994 no more! It's the mid 2020s and I'm OLD!

That, was a true Vodka-cold Jebwalk.

How do you shovel heavy freezing rain? Well throw salt and sand at it. Try not to slip.

Wow man that's one of the best posts up in here about scifi that I have ever read!

Probably not THAT bad, but it is so damn COLD that every drop of supercooled rain WILL FREEZE, on contact.

Outright HEAVY sleet and heavy freezing rain at 23 degrees. This is BAD.

You betcha! And it will translate to your area, because you guys are much colder and farther north! No freezing rain for any of you!

HUGE SURPRISE in Central Texas at 10pm EST. 23 degrees is too cold for freezing rain. We are getting ALL sleet! ALL SLEET, NO ZR whatsoever!

Wow man super happy for you! You are gonna get annihilated! ENJOY IT TO THE FULL!

26 degrees, frz driz and N winds to 20mph. Makes it feel like 12 degrees. Hope you all are seeing snow already! We're sending lots moisture right your way!

Snowshoe cam just in case anyone cares lol https://www.snowshoemtn.com/media-room/skidder-slope-live-cam

Okay this is what took place last night into today. Last night the front hit at 730pm. Temps tumbled from 65 to 33 by 4am. We got an inch of plain rain by 230am. It's been damn COLD all day at 27/24. Winds are NNE at 20 gusting to 33. Trust me its cold enough down here. All standing water is frozen. Thus far we have been lucky with only a little frz dz. But I see a ton of Pac moisture comin for us later and temps will be in the mid 20s with even colder air on its way tonight. Can't even believe I am contending with an Extreme Cold Warning, a Winter Storm Warning, AND a fricken Ice Warning!

28/25 cloudy, NNE winds to 27mph. Thus far I have dodged the zr. Wish me continued good luck.

Ouch. We just got placed under an Ice Warning. Maybe half an inch of ice. 29/23 and windy. Brrrrrrrrr very cold for south TX.