Grothar of Herndon

27/19

started as freezing rain and flipped to sleet. Not one snow flake.

1 minute ago, leesburg 04 said:

Might be rain now interesting development 

Herndon freezing rain and 27

27/15

sleet/fr

28/15

sleet

28/15

snowhole blues

28/15

snowhole but expecting first flakes any minute

33/13

Sun starting to go down. Hoping we can keep clear skies for a more hours.

28/10

Sun out but so far Temps staying steading at 28 for the past several hours. High forecasted is 34

How much sleet we gettin'?!   I want sleet, I love sleet, I would die for 3-5" of sleet!

1 minute ago, EHoffman said:

Thanks dogg

According to Pivotal most of it

Is that Snow or Sleet or both?

2 minutes ago, leesburg 04 said:

Clearly the NAMs are still adjusting, why anyone would take todays 12z and get butthurt or panic is beyond me. Hope it all works out for everyone in some form

People panic when qpf is 0.05 difference or 7" of snow instead of 8" or a Wetbulb/blanket storm over before it begins 

56 minutes ago, leesburg 04 said:

Mr. Bulb

Guy who is up in attic smoking a pack of cigarettes looking at his little window waiting impatiently for the storm to fail before it starts? 

17 minutes ago, Ji said:

31 minutes ago, EHoffman said:

It generally has less QPF across the area as a whole.

The off runs are brutal

Still over 1” of QPF for us and mostly frozen if not all

11 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

100 miles? Pffft. That's less than 1 NAM run away to correct. 1000 miles is a red flag tho

12z was about 250 miles so definitely trending in right direction. 

11 minutes ago, Pixee said:

Odd, local news has everything as rain.

3 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

The cold push is just light years better on the GFS. 540 line is 50 miles south of the NAM at 60.

GFS starts as snow down to RIC this run. 

Beatdown for all. 

So far 12z Globals are holding and sounds like GFS continues to trend even better for us

Just now, psuhoffman said:

It’s early but I can already tell the NAM is going to be way NW of all the globals. Way more amped up and it’s directing the lead wave of energy to our NW 

Concerning it is, but will pull the "NAM not in its wheelhouse yet" card

Back to sleet and freezing rain

Dang light snow now in Herndon. This storm is full of surprises!

10 minutes ago, chris21 said:

I kept pointing that out but everyone told me it was going to be a “non-event”. Looked like a clear high impact event in dc to me at least.

My apologies as I questioned the event. Huge over performer in my book. Good calL by you. 

7 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Seeing everyone say how either they are getting ice or just no ice accretion is weird because for me at least there has been almost no ice on the trees. There is also no glaze of ice except on the deck but the roads are sleet covered and so is the yard. Seems at least for me to be more of a sleet storm.  

I am in Herndon and My bushes and pine trees have lot of ice accretion. Really starting to build up. Beautiful to see but worried there could be some damage later

37 minutes ago, BristowWx said:

I’m getting what looks like snow and sleet...but I know it’s not snow

Agree...I think it is light freezing rain

2 minutes ago, SnowenOutThere said:

Here near Reston some pixie dust snowflakes mixing in with heavy sleet. 

I noticed the pixie something about 10 minutes ago and was not sure if it was pixie snow, pixie sleet or pixie freezing rain!  

27/20

freezing rain with occasional sleet mix

12 minutes ago, BristowWx said:

Intriguing.  Sugar bowl sleet here.  Making it look wintry at least 

Sleet mixing in now. Pingers have arrived