Southern Crippler - Get well soon Jimbo Storm Obs

[AGardiner87]

Ripping sleet in Rock Hill! 

[QC_Halo]

Wow, did I speak too soon….lol

dumping sleet

[BornAgain13]

The big line has arrived here. Moderate sleet

[Brick Tamland]

Mike Maze on WRAL said the line coming through will be freezing rain in the Triangle.

[airmarci]

all IP to start in WS

[BornAgain13]

5 minutes ago, BornAgain13 said:

The big line has arrived here. Moderate sleet

Edit - Heavy Sleet

[Fantom X]

All sleet here in salisbury nc... 21F.. coming down at a moderate pace

[ForsythWx]

Absolutely ripping sleet near downtown Winston Salem right now! Wow 

[NCBlizzard]

Slowly transitioning to predominantly freezing rain in Belmont. The heavy sleet has actually been really cool and unique to just stand outside in. Temp is 24.6, rising at a rate of about 1.2° per hour now

[kraken613]

Heavy Sleet in E Charlotte

[BornAgain13]

21.2 degrees here now 

[kvegas-wx]

Ok folks, I think we now have reasonable assurances that we won't end up with a catostrophic ice event anywhere in our forum.  A few power outages, sure.  But we really dodged some cannonball sized bullets here. Even if there is ZR leftover the amounts should be nuisance at best.

Take a breath, relax, cook some good food for dinner and enjoy your sleet.  Looks like Old Man Winter has some tricks in store again soon.

This wedge will have novels written about it.  Unreal.

 

[SUNYGRAD]

Moderate sleet and 22 near Winston Salem.  

[NEGA_Dawg]

Question: It looks like we are going to get a steady light rain the rest of the way. It shows it all ending around 6:30. Its now 30 degees and I was wondering how much glaze could possibly form in the next 1.5 hours? Its been a while since we have had freezing rain in my area.

[airmarci]

ZR starting to mix in a bit

[SUNYGRAD]

2 minutes ago, kvegas-wx said:

Ok folks, I think we now have reasonable assurances that we won't end up with a catostrophic ice event anywhere in our forum.  A few power outages, sure.  But we really dodged some cannonball sized bullets here. Even if there is ZR leftover the amounts should be nuisance at best.

Take a breath, relax, cook some good food for dinner and enjoy your sleet.  Looks like Old Man Winter has some tricks in store again soon.

This wedge will have novels written about it.  Unreal.

 

...I'm having some Bourbon, perhaps some EH Taylor.

[KyleEverett]

Sleet has started in Lancaster, some rain mixed in to start it seems. Heavier returns starting to reach the city.

[NEGa]

The back edge is almost here! Ended up getting zr all afternoon (I think the hrrr showed this?) about .4” ice on top of the sleet from last night. Power has managed to stay on here - a lot in the county are out 

[TriadDeac]

Moderate sleet in NW High Point.

[suzook]

I told everyone that last line with the front is no joke. It dumped an inch of rain on me. 

[NC_hailstorm]

Winds coming from the southwest now,sleet and freezing rain hitting  the opposite side of the house with wind.

Crazy stuff, 22.5

[NCBlizzard]

100% freezing rain now here in Belmont. Quickly racked up ~0.3-0.4" sleet beforehand.

[mclean02]

Heavy Sleet.  North Charlotte 23.7 93% 

[USCG RS]

2 hours ago, tarheelwx said:

I think some of us old timers here in NC saw the writing on the wall last night - light precip. Dry slot, final “band” likely to underperform.  I think it’s a bust for those that didn’t factor in the dry slot and lower qpf.  The cold air and CAD was simply a matter of sleet vs ZR and we all know how that often shakes out with anonymously cold air.  Hat off to the NAM on the dry slot.  As for the cold and ptypes, seasoned Mets should have know.  
TW

So at this point I'll concede (mostly happily) that I was wrong. This line is basically through... And as others more experienced in this region  have been predicting - these lines do not make storm. Looks like we may not even reach technical ice storm criteria. 

Unless this storm pulls a proverbial rabbit out of its hat, we dodged a massive bullet. (Now that I've said this, an ice nado will somehow develop over the Upstate). 

[SUNYGRAD]

switched to heavy sleet and fog here near Winston Salem. 

[BornAgain13]

Big time sleet here. Wow

If u want to see snow, turn on the AFC Championship Game. Its ripping in Denver

[Snow dog]

Looks like it’s winding down here.  Maybe another 30 mins or so of light rain.  Trees definitely have ice in them, but doesn’t appear to be too much.  The last worry is the winds that are expected early in the morning- that could still bring down limbs and power lines…

[kvegas-wx]

One hour of Fernie left.  This chick definitely got the best of us and overstayed her welcome.  

Definitely getting foggy as the humidity shoots up.  Temps still holding strong in the low 20s in the triad.

[CentralNC]

Ripping sleet in Lewisville.  Temp went up 3 degrees as heavy sleet brings down some of the warmer air above.

[ADB83]

Heavy sleet Walkertown