ErinInTheSky
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The best thing about sleet? It's not going to get toasted off by the sun even though it's 26 degrees outside.
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Wait til you see what happens when they plow it and cars try to back over it, thinking it'll compact down like snow.
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My parking lot, which was treated, is literally just a bowl of sleet right now. It's fantastic. The sleet is almost as high as the curb now.
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YES! I'm making sleet converts. It's my favorite kind of event when it's not an epic snowstorm.
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Alrght we've got at least an inch or more of sleet on the ground now in Germantown and plenty more to come. This is shaping up to be a heck of a fun event. You're not driving in this. Everything is caved and there are no cars on the road.
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Ok the band started with a thump of heavy snow and now it's the heaviest sleet I've seen int his entire event. It looks like a thunderstorm outside.
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Y'all. This band right now setting up from Germantown to NW of Baltimore is sick. Get ready for it.
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FAT rippage snowflakes in Germantown right now!!!! came out of nowhere. Was a heavy sleet storm and then now its ripping snow. You folks to the NE of me, get ready.
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Way to pick out the worst run of the NAM at its longest range lol. What was king euro showing at that range, 10" of snow for MoCo? The NAM had this down even 2 days ago. As of last night the Euro was still giving the region widespread 5" of snow. Put another way... I've been hugging the NAM this entire event and I'm not bummed out at all. This has actually been a fun one to track and I'm getting in my yard exactly what I expected.
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I moved here in 2017 and this is like it was in that 3" sleet storm for my back yard in Gaithersburg in 2017. Looking at radar, I think we all have a good shot at 2-3" of sleet for this storm too.
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The amount of sleet accumulating is fantastic. It’s not collecting on the railings, it’s all bouncing onto the ground. This stuff is dense and heavy and not melting at all.
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Flipped back to heavy sleet in Germantown. As long as QPF stays high then we are going to get obscene sleet accums today.
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There’s definitely sleet mixed into this snow. It’s like a sleet shower combined with a ton of flakes.
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Oh. Woah. Heavy snow in Germantown!?!!
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This is what I love about these kinds of storms and why I’m still cheering for 3” of sleet. It’s so hard to plow and the idiots who think they can drive in it usually don’t get out of the parking lot.
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Heavy sleet has returned in Germantown. I’m getting significant accumulations of it, the ground is already white and covered. Although it’s more like styrofoam balls than usual sleet right now. Graupel.
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Big slug of moisture coming in from the west. If I can get 1-2" of sleet from it, then I'll probably end up with 2.5-3" of total sleet + freezing rain and it's going to be hilarious watching the cars in my parking lot try to get out or try to shovel it.
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Yup, I learned my lesson this season. If there's confusion as to where the sleet line is going to be, always rely on the NAM. Even yesterday while models were giving everyone 5" of snow, the NAM was insistent on saying it would be all sleet.
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This was so much more bearable just hugging the NAM from the start. There’s still a good storm to be salvaged here, just relies on getting enough sleet to look like snow
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How about that NAM though? 4ths torm this season it's sussed out that sleet line even while the globals were insisting otherwise.
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I'm going to hope to stay under precip for as long as possible now. If this just goes dry fast, then the sleet bomb ice storm will have been for naught. 3+" of sleet will be really fun. Roads are already caved here. It'll look like snow but it'll stay around forever, esp after the freezing rain gets to it.
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Just got woken up from the sleet. The sleet bomb is on. Y'all ready for a 3+" sleet bomb ice storm?
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24/15 in Germantown.
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Whew GFS would be nasty with the freezing rain. This is on top of region wide 4" of snow and almost 1" of sleet. This could be a really fun event tomorrow. Significant amounts of all ptypes, on multiple models.
