Kevin Reilly

I bet there’s sleet in those maps

Drought rages on

This is so a page out of the January 6th storm. Come north come north and then everything back south again 24 hours out.

To me looks like the low to the south is ticking further and further west with each run perhaps a tick north too both of which causing a more expansive precipitation field.

30f humidity 98% dew point 29f freezing rain getting a bit convective down here all surfaces iced over except paved surfaces

28f humidity 90% dew point 27f light freezing rain all surfaces iced over except paved and cement areas treated or not. Cars iced over wires icicles hanging from everything trees coated sagging. exact same pictures down here in central Delaware County like Ralph’s above.

Moderate freezing rain a few sleet pellets everything wet cars iced over trees starting to load up 28.8f humidity 92% dew point 27f

Light freezing rain 28f humidity 63% dew point 18f

Light freezing rain a few sleet pellets 29f humidity 60% dew point 17f light icing on the cars.

Did they see their shadow?

Cloudy 32f humidity 43% dew point 12f

Cloudy 34f humidity 42% dew point 13f

But the gfs has us getting 30” of snow this week!

We’ve now seen these types of maps for 3 weeks now. These maps are equivalent to seeing a category 5 hurricane traversing the Atlantic heading to the East or Gulf Coast that disappears in time. These are the money making ratings maps.

Cloudy 36f humidity 98% dewpoint 36f Total Rain: 0.42" Total Sleet: 0.01" Total Freezing Rain: 0.27" (all surfaces covered with ice except many paved / cement areas there were a few cement areas covered.) Ice is long gone no ice anywhere left

Cloudy bumpy clouds above so warming aloft. 32f humidity 47% dew point 15f

Mostly Cloudy 31 humidity 49% dew point 15f

That’s why your snowfall maps were lighting up with up to 30” of snow because it wasn’t snow it was ice typical stuff

I cannot disagree but we have a very intense dynamic thermal gradient setting up very warm south quite cold north. in the department of what can go wrong is that the warmth is too overwhelming aloft and instead of 30” of snow we have 2” of snow followed by 7” of sleet. These snowfall maps lighting up like this screams a level of sleet especially closer to the thermal gradient. I am cautiously optimistic just give me precipitation to fill the reservoirs creeks streams and rivers. I m feeling with the cold Atlantic and 80-90 degree heat our south wild weather times are ahead at least.

This is what we need to solve our drought issue! One extreme to the other will be the coast to coast theme starting yesterday and for the next 3-5 weeks.

Soooo, I’ve seen this before and the final outcome was a lot of sleet lighting up snowfall maps. I suppose we don’t know anything about that yet or maybe the pattern supports snow?

28f clear final snowfall: 0.01 final sleet: 0.02 Total snowfall for the year 8.34”

Umm hell yea!

Lol I’m counting on all sleet!