Spot Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 IMBY: 27 F Wind 6mph Cloudy Ice and sleet still on the elevated surfaces.... and my trees..grr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowisgood Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Not really doing much on campus here at UArk. Got a nice glaze on handrails and such. That dry slot is wicked haha. Hope it fills in soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoWeatherguy Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Have switched over to moderate to occasionally heavy snow now in Monett. Nice radar returns over SW MO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Have switched over to moderate to occasionally heavy snow now in Monett. Nice radar returns over SW MO. Still cold and depressingly dry. Looks like I'll have to wait for the main show tonight. You better enjoy it! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoWeatherguy Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Still cold and depressingly dry. Looks like I'll have to wait for the main show tonight. You better enjoy it! lol Yah I'm at work trying to watch out the window lol. You must still have dry air in Joplin because the radar returns look good there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildweatherman179 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Moderate sleet N. Adair county OK. Covering roads a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wx 24/7 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Yeah, this snow won't take long to add up. RAP continues to impress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkieOkie Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 We've had freezing rain/sleet mix off and on since around 7:30-8 this morning. So far only minor ice accumulations on elevated surfaces. Just a few miles south and east is a different story, with power outages being reported in Jenny Lind, Arkansas (just south of Fort Smith.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 And now flurries..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkieOkie Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 This is a great local met's live blog. They're posting updates almost constantly for the Fort Smith and Fayetteville areas. http://5newsonline.com/2013/12/04/garretts-winter-storm-live-updates/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ_Ken Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I've been in a meeting (in a room with no windows) so I've miss the past 1 hour, but the snow has tapered off quite a bit in downtown OKC since my last report. It looks (and sounds) like we are getting light sleet with the occasional flake of snow mixed in. All surfaces (including roads) are snow/slush covered. Evening rush hour is going to be a joy. EDIT: I am officially in weenie mode now because I am bumming out that the back edge of this current (and maybe only?) burst of heavier, steadier precip is potentially several hours away. It is probably time to stop looking at the radar and start enjoying what is happening outside my window (which, by the way, is back to steady light snow with little if any sleet mixed in). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 AREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 229 PM CST Thu Dec 5 2013 .SHORT TERM...(This Evening through Friday) Issued at 224 PM CST THU DEC 5 2013 Snow has expanded this afternoon across the I-44 corridor...as upper level ascent strengthened enough to overcome low level dry air. Short term model guidance has hinted at the possibility of mid level frontogenesis increasing across northern Arkansas and southern Missouri over the next couple of hours, which could result in an additional uptick in precipitation intensity heading into the evening hours. For areas along the greater I-44 and U.S. 60 corridors, precipitation has either changed over entirely to snow, or will very shortly. Once that transition takes place, precip should, for the most part, remain all snow through the remainder of the event. While snow across this area should remain fairly light through the evening hours, it will likely have impacts on the evening rush hour given cold ground and air temps. Would expect to see a dusting to two inches of snow accumulation by mid to late evening. For the remainder of the afternoon across southern and south central Missouri, a mix of sleet, snow and freezing rain will remain possible, with precipitation transitioning to a mix of sleet and snow, and then all snow by late evening. Accumulations will remain fairly light through evening across this area as well, but impacts to travel will certainly continue through the evening drive home. By mid evening, we should see a lull in precipitation, especially north of U.S. 60, and at the very least a decrease in intensity further south. By midnight or so, another wave of precipitation will begin to overspread the area. By this point, expect to see all snow for the vast majority of the CWA. The only exception may be the far southeastern corner, where a mix of snow and sleet will be possible for a few hours before finally changing over. This snow should continue into mid day Friday, before clearing from west to east. Tonight`s snow still looks to be the more significant in terms of accumulations, given good lift and rather high snow to liquid ratios. When all is said and done, am still expecting to see snowfall of 1 to 3 inches north of I-44, a gradient of 3 to 6 inches of snow across the great I-44 corridor, and then 4 to 8 inches of snow across southern and south central Missouri. Given dry air to our north and continued north winds, there will probably be a fairly sharp gradient to snowfall along and just north of I-44. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ_Ken Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 If radar can be trusted (and it is not just sleet showing up too well on the returns), it is about to start snowing pretty darn hard in downtown OKC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildweatherman179 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Believing I should see the changeover to moderate snow here in NE OK soon. Hoping... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocoAko Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Absolutely pouring sleet here in Norman. State of Emergency declared for all 77 OK counties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NwWhiteOut Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Been mostly sleet here all day so far, sometimes some zr mixing in. Haven't seen anything extremely heavy though yet. Roads are wet for the most part but theres accidents just everywhere on 540!!! Im staying put, people drive like freakin maniacs here lol. I feel like Im on the east coast again haha. Temp is about 24.5 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spot Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 IMBY: 26F Wind 12mph Mod Sleet Starting to add up on the ground and on the road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ_Ken Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 The back edge of the steadier precip from "round one" is now in sight here for Central OK. I would guess we have an hour or two of steady stuff left. The models are still pretty gung ho on a "round two" coming later tonight, but I have to admit that I am not very impressed with the radar returns upstream (of OKC, that is...points east have a lot more coming from round one which will seemingly dovetail right into round two for them). There looks to be some hit-and-miss type showers to our southwest, but nothing as organized or as substantial as what is going through now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouamber Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Roads in Tulsa are becoming an ice rink. Photos aren't working right now. Anyway, it's sticking to everything it doesn't need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NwWhiteOut Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Wow doug really knocked them snow totals down due to all the sleet! Yuck I hope it snows at least a lil bit tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OUGrad05 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Roads got rapidly worse from about 146th St North in Tulsa down to 76th St North, my guess is continues to worsen further south. 76th street in Owasso is very slick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouamber Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Here, I think this might work: I thought Tulsa would have switched over to complete snow by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Ok, which one of you guys reported 2" of snow in Monett? It's getting there, ouamber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wx 24/7 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Not me... I had 1.25" at 3:55 after I averaged my measurements on my snowboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 The back edge of the steadier precip from "round one" is now in sight here for Central OK. I would guess we have an hour or two of steady stuff left. The models are still pretty gung ho on a "round two" coming later tonight, but I have to admit that I am not very impressed with the radar returns upstream (of OKC, that is...points east have a lot more coming from round one which will seemingly dovetail right into round two for them). There looks to be some hit-and-miss type showers to our southwest, but nothing as organized or as substantial as what is going through now. HRRR has round 2 moving into the OKC area... probably after 9-10 PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildweatherman179 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Pretty heavy band still rolling northeast out of southern OK. If I make it to changeover by then, that will really stack my totals up. :-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoWeatherguy Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Ok, which one of you guys reported 2" of snow in Monett? It's getting there, ouamber. I did. Car top a few mins ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I did. Car top a few mins ago. And here I am watching my dusting blowing around.... Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildweatherman179 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Well, that was fast. I made it to changeover. Moderate snow falling in adair county OK. Woohoo!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoMo Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Here's the latest HRRR at 2 AM I believe... in round 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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