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Just mega sleetfest here in NE Hickory right now. Crazy awesome! Sleetfest.mp4

The line has arrived. All sleet! Heavy sleet!

Look at the sharpness on this CAD. Maybe sleet rather than ZR where those 925s are coldest?

25.2/22 here. Interested to see whether this is insane sleet or freezing rain...

24.6/22 right now. Crazy cool for almost 1:30 in the afternoon.

Finally got out to measure and sled. 1.5+ inches of accumulation. Still sleeting. 21 F. .

Very heavy sleet right now. Heaviest I have seen so far at any point in this storm. Still, hardly any glaze to speak of in the trees.

Thanks, man. Yes, it is nice to wake up to a wintry scene (and still have power). It’s been a while. It’s not the big snow we wanted, but it is still a wonderful scene. .

Outside this morning. Just beautiful!

Wow! That’s quite a bit of ice for you, @Met1985 . Very atypical, I would imagine. .

Very tiny sleet pellets. Very cold. Very little glaze. Awesome! .

16/15 Everything covered in snow/sleet mix. Mainly sleet, I believe, but it did slow at several points last night. The trees are not drooping at all. So, minimal glaze here, thankfully.

No, “weeping” trees, which is a very good thing. The glaze must not be significant at all.

Just woke up. Everything is white outside. Tough to estimate how much has fallen. The deck is a poor place to measure, because the sleet will just fall through the cracks. 16.9/15

17.2/15 Final report for the night.

It’s legit snowing now. Very lightly, but more than diamond dust. .

My iPhone13 doesn't have the greatest camera, but you can faintly see the diamond dust in the streetlight. (I had to reduce the video quality to get under the 2 MB threshold.) Diamond Dust.mp4

Orientation of the precipitation on radar seems to be changing now. More SW to NE and less E to W. I think this will lead to the precipitation rates increasing for those of us east of the Apps.

Absolutely! I will call this a trace. Maybe even 0.1 inch now! Just got back from a Jebwalk. 18 degrees with a NE wind and diamond dust in the face is fierce. Sleet began to pick back up as I returned to the house. It is kind of mesmerizing to just stand and listen to it. Unlike snow, which tends to fall so silently and puts a strange quiet over everything, sleet makes noise. You can hear when it increases in intensity and when it slacks back off. Winter weather is as fascinating as it is confounding to predict.

I think it really is diamond dust. All the road surfaces are completely white now, from the "snowfall", not from sleet accumulation and not like an ice glaze.

I didn't think I had anything falling, but I saw your post, so I went out to check. Same stuff is falling here. It's either diamond dust or diamond mist. Hard to say, but mist feels wrong at this temp. 18.3/15

I’m not sure which is making me sweat more: A. The potential for icemageddon, OR B. Watching Alex Honnold free solo Taipei 101 on Netflix. 20.2/14, light IP/ZR .

The temp keeps dropping. Mostly IP, but enough ZR embedded to stick it all together, immediately. These aren't loose ice pellets; they are combining into one big glacial sheet of ice. 21.7/14

ZR mixed with IP here in Hickory. It is cold and windy.

I thought I had all sleet, but there is a glaze over everything. My driveway is already a sheet of ice. We may be cooked.