Richmond Metro/Hampton Roads Area Discussion

[Sernest14]

About a half inch to .75 so far in Ashland 

[chris624wx]

These rates remind me of the big storm we had last winter that dumped 12''+

Too bad that's not the setup this time!

[JB Fins]

In a hot tub watching the snow fall?  If you have a cigar and bourbon, you are living my dream sir, well done.

[RVASnowLover]

5 minutes ago, eaglesin2011 said:

You want the small flakes if you don’t want it to turn over..Really big ones will mean it’s getting close to turn over most likely 

Yeah that’s the thing. In this scenario rather have smaller flakes but means not so good rates 

[Sernest14]

3 minutes ago, JB Fins said:

In a hot tub watching the snow fall?  If you have a cigar and bourbon, you are living my dream sir, well done.

Opposite of tobacco and a beer haha!

[ldub23]

2 minutes ago, chris624wx said:

These rates remind me of the big storm we had last winter that dumped 12''+

Too bad that's not the setup this time!

Heavy retuens heading to Southside. Hope it all snow. Reports  of snow  in Charlotte

[Sernest14]

The good stuff isnt far off to the west 

[eaglesin2011]

At least we are missing the dry slots so far ….of course we may want that later…

[Conway7305]

Good Stuff in Powhatan now. Moving our way. 

[DownS.EasternVa]

Sleet in Portsmouth

[chris624wx]

4 minutes ago, DownS.EasternVa said:

Sleet in Portsmouth

Yep, just poked my head out here in Norfolk near Ghent and it's a pingfest. Time to take one last look at the snow on the ground. It'll be washed away when I wake up in the morning

[ldub23]

Last  gasp if snow  here

[ldub23]

Changed to sleet

[eaglesin2011]

Changeover is definitely in progress now. More of a fine mix light snow/sleet now 295/shortpump prob 2 to 2.5,inches currently 

[Deep Creek]

1 minute ago, eaglesin2011 said:

Changeover is definitely in progress now. More of a fine mix almost small sleet now 295/shortpump prob 2 to 2.5,inches currently 

Yep. I can hear the pinging outside the window. Not even gonna get out of bed to see what’s going on. At least you got some accumulation! I checked the 511 cam near Brandermill just to get an idea and it looks paltry.

[CentralVaGirl]

Shoot. I was hoping for 3-4" of snow to get my shovel under the ice. Looks like maybe an inch. Tuckahoe, west Richmond. Sounds like mostly sleet right now. Hoping that holds. 

[overcautionisbad]

Storm seems a lote more dry than predicted. I'm actually not surprised tiven the surface temps. When it is this cold here it is hard to get moisture

[mikeeng92]

Just drove from east end to west end and roads are in bad shape 

[JB Fins]

Yeah, I would guess plows hard to get it all.  Anybody know what the peak snow measurement was before changeover?  Maybe 2” like others, was hoping for more.

HR crew, over to freezing rain yet?  Everybody have power?

[jlewis1111]

looks like the NAM for the win

about 2 inches here now in midlo of snow sleet.. all sleet now

[JB Fins]

Yeah agreed, Euro ahead of the storm and the NAM with the details, seems to be the norm.

[Rhino16]

Eyeballing maybe an inch here on the coast. It must not have continued much when I went to sleep

[ldub23]

1 hour ago, JB Fins said:

Yeah, I would guess plows hard to get it all.  Anybody know what the peak snow measurement was before changeover?  Maybe 2” like others, was hoping for more.

HR crew, over to freezing rain yet?  Everybody have power?

ZR hope as the sun gets stronger  it  melts

[JB Fins]

Absolutely ripping sleet at the moment 

[JB Fins]

I guess the >6” streak holds.

 

[wasnow215]

2 hours ago, mikeeng92 said:

Just drove from east end to west end and roads are in bad shape 

I run a convenience store and the plow people that are coming in for coffee and stuff are saying the roads are the worst they've seen. It's gotta be because of the extreme cold and the salt and stuff are just not gonna do the job..., and it's January 25 if it was February 25 it might be different

[wasnow215]

And then arctic freeze for the rest of the week just brutal starting late tomorrow. And when the wind picks up tomorrow that's when we could have trouble with power more so than today

[JB Fins]

Yeah, just moving the generator over to a more covered spot and this stuff is not easy to walk in.  I could only imagine driving in it.

[Conway7305]

anyone know the total ice forecast later today or has that been lowered.  Hopefully so.  

 

[Shadowzone]

Of course I wanted a foot of snow, but I'm trying to appreciate the relative rarity of the sleet bomb. 

I'd prefer no heavy accretion of ice, but there's one silver lining.  The snow was so dry that the trees are holding little or no snow for the ice to build on.  Heavy wet snow followed by ice would be far more likely to break more trees.  That is not the case so far today.