I'm surprised there's not much talk about this front coming in on Xmas Eve. Very impressive system, albeit in and out fast.
ETA: Nevermind. Few folks talking about it in the discobs thread.
Add me to the ripping fatties category.. Finally. Huge flakes. Road caved instantly. Sticking to everything. Hopefully a good sign for those to the north.
My dry slot time is about over. New batch of precip moving in. It might actually be snow this time. Burkes Garden it's coming down good on the cam.
https://52d9f0c4c24ee.click2stream.com/
The 18z sounding at IAD looks all below freezing, but looks like this launch was sent up before the sleet/mixing line moved through judging by the radar correlation coefficient. The warmest spot was right near 0C between 930mb to 880mb.
Yes. However, heaviest stuff still to the SW, so will see what happens when we get heavier rates. Warm nose on our RAOB this morning of around +1C above 850mb.
This is turning into a pure ice event in southern VA along the BR and foothills. A couple positives will be 1) the heavy rates will limit accretion. (2 coinciding marginal temperatures.
I haven't really gotten down to those details yet, but a guess now that everyone along and east of the Blue Ridge mixes at some point. The exception to that would be further north in northern Virginia.