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2/13 rain to snow event


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34 minutes ago, RU848789 said:

As of 5 am, we were at 33F with 1/2" of mixed snow/sleet on the ground and as of 6 am it's still 33F and we have almost 1" of snow/sleet on the ground with it being all snow since about 5:30 pm with moderate snow falling now (nice dendrites). Going to need more intensity (more than 1" per hour and we've been less than that), though, to get more than 7" by noon, when things wind down..  

I woke up at 5 am so I didn't see the changeover, but the radar indicates we likely changed from rain to snow around 4 am.  Every surface is covered including the streets in front of our house and it's likely having some sleet helped with overcoming melting as sleet pellets have a much lower surface area per unit volume than snowflakes and melting only occurs at the surface, so melting is much slower for sleet.  

As of 6:30 am, still 33F and 1.25" of snow on the ground and snowing moderately - that's only 1/2" per hour rates - going to need more than that to even get to 5-6", let alone 7-8".

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So much for it having trouble sticking. Was sleeting pretty hard when i just got up at 0615, flipped to snow and immediately sticking to all surfaces. Think the quick layer of sleet helped that. Mod snow now in NE Philly. Roads look like they may suck, ill find out soon enough lol.

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2 minutes ago, MattMal88 said:

So much for it having trouble sticking. Was sleeting pretty hard when i just got up at 0615, flipped to snow and immediately sticking to all surfaces. Think the quick layer of sleet helped that. Mod snow now in NE Philly. Roads look like they may suck, ill find out soon enough lol.

That's exactly what happened!  The temp was already dropping near but still above freezing so surfaces had cooled and that thin sleet layer took it the rest of the way.

Temp now at 32 IMBY with dp 32 and SN & fog.

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5 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

This will be a 2"+ batch that's going to roll through soon....going to be cool along w/the wind.

32F

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We r in the line of fire. Heaviest band setting up pretty much over us maybe a hair N if you do a loop and look at the axis starting to pivot and deform band beginning to form.    

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37 minutes ago, RU848789 said:

As of 6:30 am, still 33F and 1.25" of snow on the ground and snowing moderately - that's only 1/2" per hour rates - going to need more than that to even get to 5-6", let alone 7-8".

As of 7 am, down to 32F and 1.75" OTG and snowing close to heavily now, with 1"/hour rates the past 30 minutes. It's gorgeous out there with everything covered - first plow just went by our house. TWC was just discussing how the low pressure off DelMarVa is strengthening and noting that short term forecasts are for 1-2" per hour for the next 3-4 hours for much of CNJ/NYC/NENJ.

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We r in the line of fire. Heaviest band setting up pretty much over us maybe a hair N if you do a loop and look at the axis starting to pivot and deform band beginning to form.    

Yea N if the city NE through NYC region jackpot

Whoever stays in that pivot region basically.

That band is 1-2” hr stuff here currently Bensalem


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