Rain here around 3pm then a burst of moderate snow embedded with "mangled flakes" around 345. Yes, definitely wet snow, not hail, not sleet, not graupel, not rabid bunnies falling from the sky.....this was wet snow.
3" on the ground, temps dropping thru the 20s, NW winds gusting to 40. And up to 2" additional with squalls this afternoon/evening.
Best wintry day of the entire season and it comes mid March.....go figure.
Latest modeling delays the flip here this closer to 11AM. Our area was under the nws zone of highest uncertainty. Have a feeling the delayed flip and faster forward speed will yield an underperformer here but we'll see. Keeping the bar set at 2" on grass.
Every one of the mesos are on board now. Big adjustments last 18hrs for sure. Still a little time to go, but looks solid with a classic late season rain to snow track wave along a front type thing. Globals out to lunch with thermals on this one. Underestimating the CAA push coming. Squalls likely Saturday evening and night as well. Last hurrah?
That would work. Stretched out front with another low developing to enhance the backbuilding after the primary wave moves thru and brings CAA in it's wake. One of the wrfs is hellbent on developing an entirely separate storm at 48hrs coming N out of the Tennessee Valley. Some fast changes happening with this on guidance: